ABSTRACT
Timothy Morton’s 2013 book Hyperobjects is thought-provoking for a number of reasons, not least for its implications for the study of prehistory. Morton defines ‘hyperobjects’ as objects massively distributed in space or time by comparison with humans. The hyperobject has five key features: (1) viscosity, (2) nonlocality, (3) temporal undulation, (4) phasing and (5) interobjectivity. By examining each of these features in turn, we are led to discover some possibly important implications for how the study of prehistory might be differently framed.
