‘We have not always existed’
A family as a unit of time, a measure of conflict.
The only way to combat this using the tools of History and Archaeology is to use it to question these natural assumptions. To denaturalize history.
To show that the present is really accidental, but logical; not natural, but naturalized. Our present is this one, but it could have been perfectly different and this is what we must question. History, therefore, would not try to tell us who we are and how we got here but, on the contrary, to explain the process by which this “we” has become “us”. But this “we” has not always existed (“we have not always existed”). The key is to think critically about how the past is made present (is presented) and is manipulated.
