DARK ABYSS OF TIME (ROWMAN AND LITTLEFIELD) (PB)

The traditional view of archaeology is that it should reconstruct the history of cultures and civilizations through their material productions. Here, Olivier challenges this view with a new approach to archaeological remains based on the works of French theorists such as Foucault, de Certeaux, and Derrida, with insight from Darwin and Freud. His thesis is that archaeology does not study the past itself but rather what materially remains of the past in our present. This book is a major contribution to the theory of time, memory, heritage, and archaeology.