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The Timing and Tempo of Change: Examples from the Fourth Millennium cal. bc in Southern England

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2008

Alasdair Whittle
Affiliation:
School of History and Archaeology, Cardiff University, Humanities Building, Colum Drive, Cardiff, CF10 3EU, UK; whittle@cardiff.ac.uk.
Alex Bayliss
Affiliation:
English Heritage, 1 Waterhouse Square, 138–142 Holborn, London, EC1N 2ST, UK; alex.bayliss@english-heritage.org.uk.
Frances Healy
Affiliation:
20, The Green, Charlbury, Oxon. OX7 3QU, UK; healyfm@cardiff.ac.uk.

Abstract

Generation after generation, life after life, human existence flows through time. Person to person, community to community, the relationships of social existence spread out in space. Archaeology has come up with many different approaches to the central questions of temporality and sociality, but it has not been very successful with either.

Type
Special Section: Time and Change in Archaeological Interpretation
Copyright
2008 The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research

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