ABSTRACT Assumptions about rural time have stifled analysis and interpretation of the Roman countryside. As the rural remains Other to the urban, it is trapped either in a backwards past or an eternal present, variably derided or romanticized, and denied future-oriented phenomena such as innovation and social mobility. This article dissects these assumptions and their genealogy and argues that the rural can only ever be ‘decolonized’ from the urban if its dynamics are also considered in temporal, not just spatial, terms. By empirically examining temporalities through patterns of material change, it provides a nuanced account of rural time as multiple, forward-looking, and shaping varied social and economic possibilities. The transition from grain storage in silos in the late Iron Age to wine fermentation in dolia in the Roman period of the northwest Mediterranean demonstrates how careful consideration of rural time can release new agencies and new interpretive possibilities for rural archaeologies.

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农村时间

摘要关于乡村时间的假设扼杀了对罗马乡村的分析和解释。由于农村仍然是城市以外的地方，它要么陷入过去，要么陷入永恒的现在，受到各种嘲笑或浪漫化，被否定了诸如创新和社会流动等面向未来的现象。本文剖析了这些假设及其家谱，并认为，如果仅从时间上考虑空间动态，而不仅仅是从空间上考虑，则农村永远只能与城市“非殖民化”。通过对物质变化模式的时空性进行实证检验，它提供了对农村时间的细致入微的解释，因为它具有多重性，前瞻性并塑造了各种社会和经济可能性。