Time, Culture and Identity: An Interpretative ArchaeologyTime, Culture and Identity questions the modern western distinctions between: * nature and culture * mind and body * object and subject. Drawing on the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, Julian Thomas develops a way of writing about the past in which time is seen as central to the emergence of the identities of people and objects. |
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activities animal archaeological record argue argument artefacts aspects assemblages associated axes bank barrows Beaker Binford Bogucki bones Brzesc Kujawski burials causewayed enclosures ceramic character communities complex concerned connected consequence construction context Dasein decoration defined deposition distinct ditch Dyffryn Ardudwy Early Bronze Age emergence enclosure engagement entities evidence existence Figure flint Foucault fundamental funerary Grooved Ware groups Heidegger 1962 Heidegger’s henge houses identity interpretation involved kind La Hoguette landscape later Neolithic long mound longhouses maceheads Maiden Castle material culture material things means Mesolithic monuments Mount Pleasant nature north European plain notion objects one’s palisade particular past pattern persons Peterborough Ware pits pottery practice present recognise relations relationships represent round barrow sense separate settlement sherds significance simply social society space spatial stone structure styles suggest symbolic temporality timber circle tombs traditions transformed understanding vessels Wainwright 1979 Wessex