It draws parallels between some of the key themes that engaged Koselleck and archaeological work on time, specifically focusing on the notion of temporal multiplicity. It argues that there have been two dominant modes of thinking this multiplicity in archaeology, one that links it to the notion of a vector – rates and direction of change – and the other that links it to the notion of a layer – processes of accumulation and subtraction. The paper explores how these two notions have been articulated in archaeological thought, how they connect to Koselleck's concept of Zeitschichten, and whether they are inherently irreconcilable or not.
Gavin Lucas is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Iceland. He has had an enduring interest in the way archaeologists think and work, reflected in various books such as Critical Approaches to Fieldwork (2001), Understanding the Archaeological Record (2012), Writing the Past (2021) and Archaeological Situations (2022). Alongside this has been a recurrent interest in the concept of time: The Archaeology of Time (2005), Making Time (2020), and with Laurent Olivier, Conversations on Time (2021) while his main focus of fieldwork has been on the archaeology of the last 500 years.
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