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The Sea of Time Meets the Sands of the Desert of the Real.

Preface:

Many will find the authorship of this book to be somewhat problematic as Gell, Munn, and Lucas have contributed so much to the study of the anthropology and archaeology of time.  The author finds it necessary to give the lay reader examples of some of the problems and potential deeper research which can be conducted upon the topic.  This will be conducted through a survey of the current literature, but also through case examples the author has encountered in the field.  Chapter 1 gives a general overview of the development of the material culture of time, while chapter 2 deals with the development of the current theories in regards to its cognition.  chapter 3 harkens back to my studies at the College of William and Mary and gives a case study in the anthropology of time and space through the horological artifacts recovered during the early excavation of Colonial Williamsburg during the 1920’s and 1930’s.  Moving away from time and space I will then examine the relationship between time and economy in chapter 4 based upon the artifacts recovered by the Archaeological Society of Virginia at Gould Hill (44Hn121) now part of the permanent collections at the Virginia Museum of Natural History.  Chapter 5 and 6 will deal with the diffusion of Clock Calendar Time (CCT) through the mode of temporal devices at sea.  This will be done in two parts, chapter 5 dealing with the reference to time in historical accounts, and chapter 6 dealing with the listed temporal artifacts on wrecks during the age of discovery through the mass emigration of the European diaspora.  The final chapter will look at how in the post modern world hailed by Baudrillard still makes use of time as a construct, a construct which is intrinsically linked to the creation of a mass diaspora of globalized people in the New World and Asia starting in the 16^th century.   It is the author’s intent not to be concise on the topic of the archaeology of time, but rather to inform and inspire further research on this topic.

Introduction:

           

            This text which is the accumulation of papers and previous work has been a project undertaken with the heart of the beginning scholar; having been started under those pretenses as a senior scholar would have had second thoughts about its undertaking.