Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 230
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Trim: 6⅜ x 9½
978-0-7591-2045-7 • Hardback • November 2011 • $119.00 • (£92.00)
978-0-7591-2046-4 • Paperback • March 2015 • $56.00 • (£43.00)
978-1-4930-8345-9 • eBook • January 2024 • $52.00 • (£40.00)
Laurent Olivier is curator of the Department of Celtic and Gaulish archaeology at the National Museum of Archaeology in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, outside Paris. He teaches at the École du Louvre and the École pratique des hautes études. He is working on a dig on the site of Iron Age salt marshes in Marsal (northeastern France).
Arthur Greenspan is a professor of French at Colby College.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: In the Beginning
Chapter 2: When Once There Was a Once Upon a Time
Chapter 3: Pages Written in Earth
Chapter 4: An Archaeology of the Present
Chapter 5: A Field of Ruins
Chapter 6: Ragmen of the Past
Chapter 7: Palimpsests and Memory-Objects
Chapter 8: A Biology of Forms
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
The Dark Abyssof Time is … one of the most important works published in archaeology during my lifetime. It fundamentally questions the purpose and practice of the discipline as it is today, and successfully tries to move us beyond the sterile debates that have marred the history of archaeology for the last thirty or so years. It is the result of a wide and deep immersion in the roots of our current culture, and it is, to boot, beautiful to read!
— Sander van der Leeuw Ph.D, Arizona State University
This is a wonderful work, a rich and very human treatment of how we experience time and history in our relationships with vestiges of the past. It is an inspiring read in the critical tradition of Bergson and Benjamin that will appeal to everyone interested in our contemporary and archaeological fascination with old things.
— Michael Shanks, Omar and Althea Hoskins Professor of Archaeology, Stanford University