ABSTRACT
This chapter develops thinking on the relational nature of reality by focusing on the issue of change and persistence. It argues that in rejecting a correspondence theory of truth, a host of different avenues for understanding time and archaeological research open up. The chapter argues that these avenues are fraught with paradoxes, but those paradoxes are productive and archaeologists are already adept at dealing with some of them because of our engagement within constantly changing assemblages of past material. Some relationships persist within fundamentally dynamic assemblages in a diachronic world. Some of the properties that emerge from an assemblage can endure when the assemblage changes if the relationships giving rise to those properties extend with those properties through the change. non-representational archaeology is in some ways radical, it need not throw the baby out with the bath water. Chronologies and typologies produced by comparison with similar objects, and past interpretations of the wider types of such burials across the British Isles and beyond.
