The archaeology of time / / Gavin Lucas
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| Autore: |
Lucas Gavin <1965-, >
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| Titolo: |
The archaeology of time / / Gavin Lucas
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (161 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 930.1 |
| Soggetto topico: | Archaeology |
| Time | |
| Classificazione: | 15.30 |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-147) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Beyond chronology; Time and the archaeological record; Time in past societies; Case study: the life and times of a Roman jar; Conclusions: forgetting the past; Bibliography; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | It might seem obvious that time lies at the heart of archaeology, since archaeology is about the past. However, the issue of time is complicated and often problematic, and although we take it very much for granted, our understanding of time affects the way we do archaeology.This book is an introduction not just to the issues of chronology and dating, but time as a theoretical concept and how this is understood and employed in contemporary archaeology. It provides a full discussion of chronology and change, time and the nature of the archaeological record, and the perception of time and his |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The archaeology of time |
| ISBN: | 1-134-38426-2 |
| 0-203-00492-2 | |
| 1-134-38427-0 | |
| 1-280-07944-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910822380303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Themes in archaeology.