ABSTRACT
Archaeology is fundamentally connected to notions of time, origins, and history. As an academic discipline, it is closely tied to the establishment of the geological antiquity of the world and humanity. Archaeology is a product of modernist notions of time, which similarly affect the understanding of long-term and short-term processes in the deep past. These aspects were amplified immensely during the second half of the 20th century with the development and increasing sophistication of radiometric dating techniques. As the treatment of time in archaeology continues to have a social and interpretative dimension, it remains necessary to critically and reflexively engage with these aspects to arrive at temporally diverse and inclusive versions of the human past.
