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Materiality of Time and Temporality of Place

Archaeology is only possible because time materializes. But archaeology is not concerned with the traces of time and change in general but with those traces that humans left. In my paper, I want to focus on the conditions through which time manifests. For archaeology, time, space, and place play a fundamental role. Place is the texture of space. Space becomes concrete to us through places and establishes a world in which we live. According to the French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty, the lived body movement is the pivotal element in understanding the body-place-relationship because our body is not in space nor in time, but inhabits space and time. The human subject is always oriented and situated in place, therefore Edward Casey calls it the geographical subject. The primary way in which the geographical subject realizes its active commitment to place is by means of habitation. ‘Habitation’ here includes nomadic life as well as settled dwelling. It is the manner in which we relate to places through our lived bodies. Creating a place means to appropriate space as well as time. In my paper, I will show that the phenomenological origins of geography are at the same time the fundaments for archaeological practice. Stefan Schmidt (University of Wuppertal)