Time and Archaeology

Tim Murray is Professor of Archaeology at LaTrobe University, Melbourne, Australia.

• Preface Introduction 1 A return to the ‘Pompeii premise’ 2 Indian and other concepts of time: a holistic framework 3 Puranic time and the archaeological record 4 German Romantic chronology and its impact on the interpretation of prehistory 5 Keeping industrial time 6 Developing an Indian stone age chronology 7 Appraising the urban future: an archaeological time Perspective 8 The Hochdorf ‘princely’ grave and the question of the nature of archaeological funerary assemblages 9 The times of history: archaeology, narrative and non-linear causality