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first hand, to see the seasonal variability in vegetation and rivers and how these affected the
way in which I engaged with the landscape.
It should perhaps be also noted that for the first two field trips I was approximately six-seven
months pregnant with my first and then second child. For the last trip, I was not and thus the
difference between how a person physically moves through the landscape, and how it can be
engaged with at different life-stages was enlightening. Being pregnant, the landscape felt
much more inhospitable and I, particularly vulnerable, heightening my unease travelling along
Greek roads and climbing mountains. Whether this is an immutable condition of imminent
motherhood, I cannot say for all time. Not pregnant, I was more at ease with my
surroundings, confident at my ability to negotiate the landscape through which I moved.
However, this was also the final field trip and the last of numerous trips to Greece and
Arkadia.
3.3: Temporality
3.3.1: Time and timescales
The discussion of time in archaeology has often been concerned with which timescales
archaeologists can be viably concerned, especially in prehistory (e.g. Bradley 1991; Bintliff,
1991a; Ingold 1993; Gosden, 1994). In order to look at both the long and short term, a
number of concepts have proved useful, particularly those associated with the Annales
‘school’(e.g. Braudel 1969), Giddens’ theory of Structuration (Giddens 1984), Heidegger’s
thoughts on time (Heidegger 1962) and to a certain extent Bourdieu’s concept of habitus
(Bourdieu 1977).
The Annalistes elucidate a number of timescales: the longue durée, how society relates to the
environment and natural rhythms; social time, the history of social groups persisting beyond
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