Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- A return to the 'Pompeii premise' -- Indian and other concepts of time: a holistic framework -- Puranic time and the archaeological record -- German Romantic chronology and its impact on the interpretation of prehistory -- Keeping industrial time -- Developing an Indian stone age chronology -- Appraising the urban future: an archaeological time perspective -- The Hochdorf 'princely' grave and the question of the nature of archaeological funerary assemblages -- The times of history: archaeology, narrative and non-linear causality -- Index.