Times of Their Lives: Hunting History in the Archaeology of Neolithic Europe

'The Times of their Lives' explains how archaeologists can now move away from thinking about history in terms of thousands of years, to periods from one or two centuries down to lifetimes and generations - a little more than two decades.

This vastly improved precision comes from the application of Bayesian chronological frameworks for the interpretation of radiocarbon dates.

If they do the right things, archaeologists in general and prehistorians in particular need not confine themselves any longer to the long term, which has often been seen as the defining currency of the discipline.

Many prehistorians are still uncomfortable with the choice of narratives now available - or have not yet critically rethought old habits.

This book will show how temporally much more precise accounts of the past can be achieved, across a broad range of contexts and situations.