Sentient Conceptualisations- Front Cover -- Sentient Conceptualisations -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of boxes -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Depths and surfaces -- Temporal dichotomies -- Sense and concept -- Sentient conceptualisation -- The chapters -- Chapter 1: Gesturing a past underground -- Time depth -- Downwards into the past -- Chronologies in Indo-European and Japanese archaeology -- Conceptual growth -- Chapter 2: Forward into the absent past -- Feeling forward -- The senses in movement -- Drawing gestures -- Incorporating technologies of the absent -- Downward into the past -- Rising heads, lifting pasts -- Conceptual ecology -- Chapter 3: Vertical and horizontal chronologies in tension -- Up and down with vertical chronologies -- Verticality and horizontality in archaeology -- A critique of the time-space division in archaeology -- The Anthropocene: a hybrid boundary -- Chapter 4: The stratification of life, mind and sociality -- The tree of life and its aquatic origin -- Stratified trees branching upwards, downwards and sideways -- Memory and knowledge -- Disciplinary knowledge as corporeal participation -- Tree of knowledge and tree of life -- Chapter 5: Time at the trowel's edge -- The temporality of the trowel -- Textual inscription vs. material transaction -- Inscriptive material transactions -- Sampling and excavating the soil -- Beyond inscriptions -- Chains and ropes -- Blocks, soils, textiles and tissues -- From the known to the unknown -- Chapter 6: Bodies of knowledge: anthropology, archaeology and history -- An archaeology-anthropology impasse -- Back to Pompeii? -- Time perspectivism -- Temporal reorientations in archaeology and anthropology -- History, anthropology and archaeology -- Horizontalisations and verticalisations in phenomenological archaeology