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Time and Archaeological Event

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2008

Gavin Lucas
Gavin Lucas
Affiliation:
University of Iceland, Sudurgata, 101 Reykjavik, Iceland; [email protected].
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Abstract

This paper re-examines the concept of the archaeological event as a means to avoid dual or multiple levels for historical phenomena, which a scalar view of time creates. Central to this procedure is an examination of the nature of residuality in relation to the archaeological record; it is argued that our concept of residuality needs to be broadened to encompass a more general view of material organization where the property of reversibility is foregrounded. In doing so, a different conception of the event is generated which defines itself not in terms of particularity but reversibility.

Keywords

archaeological theorytimeresiduality
Type
Special Section: Time and Change in Archaeological Interpretation
Information
Cambridge Archaeological Journal , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , February 2008 , pp. 59 - 65
Copyright
2008 The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research

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