Vast physical and metaphysical subject, the definition of time, its origin and its nature and from there, the multiple approaches to apprehend it, have constantly nourished human concerns for millennia: whether it is a question of making a objective time necessary for social organization (to establish calendar, dates, timetables), but also to measure subjective time, the internal dimension of our consciousness. The most common passage of time in monotheistic societies proceeds from a horizontal reading, dating historical events before and after a zero year which would be the birth of Jesus Christ. Archaeologists, for their part, reason by stratification, adopting a vertical reading close in particular to the Chinese concept.


La fabrique du temps (Interpretation of Time)