It is well understood that archaeologists, by definition, always strive to assess time as precisely as possible. However, the lack of efficient temporal data interoperability limits our understanding of cross-cultural historical evolution. This Special Issue of Archaeometry on chronological modelling features nine contributions which, while not covering all existing methods, provide a useful snapshot of current research on formalisms, methods, and standards. We hope it will help spark a ‘temporal turn’ in archaeology, much like GIS initiated a ‘spatial turn’ in the field more than 30 years ago.
Huet et al. (Thu,) studied this question.