Laurent Olivier

The Dark Abyss of Time

Archaeology and Memory

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Produktbeschreibung

Olivier's ambitious work, newly translated into English from the French, brilliantly explicates the new approach to archaeological remains based on the theory that archaeology is the science of constantly reconstituted memory.

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Produktdetails

• Archaeology in Society
• Verlag: Altamira Press
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 530g
• ISBN-13: 9780759120457
• ISBN-10: 0759120455
• Artikelnr.: 33872634

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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