Gerdzhikov, Sergei. The deep time: Anthropology, archeology and history: Collected papers in theoretical archaeology
Дълбокото време. Антропология, археология и история
Language: Bulgarian

   The "Deep Time" is a metaphor for the invisibly slow processes of deposition of archaeological structures — an entropic product of cultures from the past. "Time" is a metaphor for the world as a process — there is no pure time, but intertwined and superimposed processes with different speeds and scales. The process of human life — individual and cultural — is a resynthesis of human structures against their spontaneous disintegration. Spontaneous processes are irreversibly directed to increase entropy. The cup that falls and breaks cannot recover spontaneously. However, we can recover it at the cost of energy consumed. Archeology reconstructs extinct cultures from fragmentary traces. The historical science reconstructs the past from fragmentary sources. Every science is a virtual reconstruction of forms and processes from scattered information. Every life is a reproduction of a living form against the spontaneous increase of entropy.

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