Time and History in Prehistory

ISBN-13: 9781138692701 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 288 str.

Stella Souvatzi; Adnan Baysal; Emma Baysal

Opis

Time and History in Prehistory explores the many processes through which time and history are conceptualised and constructed, challenging the perception of prehistoric societies as a-historical. Drawing equally on contemporary theory and illustrative case-studies and firmly rooted in material evidence, this book rearticulates concepts of time and history, questions the kind of narratives to be written about the past and underlines the fundamentally historical nature of prehistory. By juxtaposing varied viewpoints this volume bridges gaps in narrative, finds a place for inclusive histories and makes clear the benefit of integrative and inter-disciplinary approaches, including different disciplines and types of data.

Spis treści

1. Is there pre-history? Part 1: Perceptions of the past 2. The Uexküll calibration: chronology and critical flicker fusion frequency 3. Timescales and Telescopes. Optics in the Study of Prehistory. 4. Ontology unveiled, serpents remembered, time reconfigured 5. Periodization in Archaeology: starting in the ground Part 2: Narrative construction 6. Locked in the Neolithic between Evolution and History 7. Illustrating Waves of Time in Prehistory and the Annales’ Solution. 8. What kind of history in prehistory? 9.Concepts of time and history on Chalcolithic tell settlements and Trypillia mega-sites 10. Prehistoric histories of Hohokam kin groups Part 3: Objects and making history 11. Hyperobjects and Prehistory 12. Time Matters: faces, externalised knowledge and transcendence 13. "I make this standing stone to be a sign": material presence and the temporality of the trace in highland Madagascar 14 Contested history-making as part of the building of social networks at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey. Epilogue 15. Primevalism: saluting a renamed prehistory