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To amplify Cornelius' point, such is only a contradiction for those who locate the past elsewhere and treat the outcomes of their work as the starting points. Contemporary past should be jarring to those who hold such a belief precisely because it locates the past, not only in more recent contexts, but also where it has always been in the present. The contemporary is always made up of polychronic ensembles. In fact, I just picked up a book off my shelf which translates something of the Egyptian past into two dimensions, and I should get back to reading it. On 10/16/07, Cornelius Holtorf <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Well, Paul - can there be a past that is not contemporary? > > C > > ----- > Cornelius Holtorf > * from January 2008: Kalmar University * > Institutionen för arkeologi och antikens historia, Lunds universitet > http://web.comhem.se/cornelius > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: lineone <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 12:07 pm > Subject: contradictory past > > > Was talking to an Egyptologist last night who objected that the > > term > > "contemporary past" was a contradiction in terms. I can see what > > she > > means. Did we adopt this term because the millenium stopped us > > talking > > about 20th century archaeology? can there be a contemporary past? > > > > I just wondered..... > > > > P G-B > > > > -------------------------- > > contemp-hist-arch is a list for news and events > > in contemporary and historical archaeology, and > > for announcements relating to the CHAT conference group. > > ------- > > For email subscription options see: > > http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/archives/contemp-hist-arch.html > > ------- > > For CHAT meetings see: > > http://www.bris.ac.uk/archanth/events/chat.html > > -------------------------- > > > > -------------------------- > contemp-hist-arch is a list for news and events > in contemporary and historical archaeology, and > for announcements relating to the CHAT conference group. > ------- > For email subscription options see: > http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/archives/contemp-hist-arch.html > ------- > For CHAT meetings see: > http://www.bris.ac.uk/archanth/events/chat.html > -------------------------- > -- Christopher Witmore PhD Postdoctoral Research Associate Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World Brown University http://proteus.brown.edu/witmore/Home -- Christopher Witmore PhD Postdoctoral Research Associate Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World Brown University http://proteus.brown.edu/witmore/Home -------------------------- contemp-hist-arch is a list for news and events in contemporary and historical archaeology, and for announcements relating to the CHAT conference group. ------- For email subscription options see: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/archives/contemp-hist-arch.html ------- For CHAT meetings see: http://www.bris.ac.uk/archanth/events/chat.html --------------------------