%0 Journal Article
%T De chaque c t¨¦ de la surface On each side of the surface. Materialized time and thoughts on archaeological temporalities.
%A Johnny Samuele Baldi
%J Temporalit¨¦s
%D 2012
%I Laboratoire Printemps
%X Le but de cet article est de pr¨¦senter quelques consid¨¦rations sur les relations temporelles, stratigraphiques et ¨¦pist¨¦mologiques entre la surface arch¨¦ologique (et les mat¨¦riels c¨¦ramiques collect¨¦s pendant les prospections) et les niveaux souterrains (avec leur potentiel informatif). Il ne s¡¯agit pas donc d¡¯une ¨¦tude arch¨¦ologique sp¨¦cifique ou de la discussion d¡¯un probl¨¨me m¨¦thodologique. Mais plut t d¡¯une r¨¦flexion sur les contradictions implicites ¨¤ certaines approches arch¨¦ologiques : la lecture lin¨¦aire du temps et des ¨¦volutions, l¡¯application de notions typiquement occidentales (bien qu¡¯utiles) ¨¤ des contextes non-occidentaux, ainsi que l¡¯absence d¡¯int¨¦r¨ºt arch¨¦ologique pour la culture mat¨¦rielle actuelle (sur la surface). La temporalit¨¦ traditionnelle et lin¨¦aire (fond¨¦e sur la notion d¡¯une Grande Fracture entre pass¨¦ et pr¨¦sent, antiquit¨¦ et   modernit¨¦  ), est strictement li¨¦e aux postulats d¡¯un ¨¦volutionnisme lin¨¦aire d¡¯empreinte coloniale et cr¨¦e des apories arch¨¦ologiques qui peuvent ¨ºtre d¨¦pass¨¦es par l¡¯adoption d¡¯une temporalit¨¦ non-lin¨¦aire et   aplatie  . Des exemples arch¨¦ologiques sont bri¨¨vement pr¨¦sent¨¦s pour montrer le caract¨¨re souvent non lin¨¦aire des transformations techniques et culturelles et comment la culture mat¨¦rielle du pr¨¦sent peut ¨ºtre approch¨¦e par des m¨¦thodes strictement arch¨¦ologiques. This paper focuses on some considerations about the temporal, stratigraphic and epistemological relationships between the archaeological surface (and the ceramics materials collected during the preliminary prospection) and underground levels (and their information). Therefore, this paper is not a specific study, nor a detailed discussion of a methodological problem. It is rather a series of reflections on contradictions implicit to some archaeological approaches : linear reading of time, linear evolutions, application of typical (even if useful) Western epistemological tools and ideas to a non-Western context, absence of archaeological interest for the current materiality (on the surface). The traditional linear temporality (based on the notion of a Great Divide between past and present, antiquity and ¡°modernity¡±), is strictly linked to the assumptions of an old colonial linear evolutionism and it creates some archaeological aporias that can be overcome by the adoption of a non-linear and ¡°flattened¡± temporality. Some archaeological evidence are briefly presented to show that technological and cultural changes are often non-linear, as well as that current material-cultural conditions can be explored with an archaeological approach
%K archaeology
%K modernity
%K non-linear evolution
%K flattened temporality
%K recent past.
%K arch¨¦ologie
%K modernit¨¦
%K ¨¦volutions non-lin¨¦aires
%K temporalit¨¦ aplatie
%K pass¨¦ r¨¦cent.
%U http://temporalites.revues.org/2125