ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the vertical concepts of time in an attempt to explore how they are used, contested and developed in scientific argumentation. By concentrating on the much-debated relationship between archaeology and anthropology, the chapter also focuses on how the corporeal attitudes embedded in key time concepts used by archaeology define the relationship between the two disciplines. It expresses that in daily theoretical argumentation, archaeologists alternate between vertical and horizontal emphases that determine their distance from the sister discipline of anthropology. When a dialogue is opened between the two disciplines, there is a tendency to align them either vertically or horizontally. On the one hand, anthropology can acquire 'time depth', while, on the other, archaeology can attend to the horizon. Something similar occurs with complementary disciplinary relationships analysed – between, on the one hand, archaeology and history and, on the other, anthropology and history. Appropriating time concepts from another discipline requires that scholars literally accommodate different bodies of knowledge.
