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Detecting and explaining technological innovation in prehistory

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    Technology refers to any set of standardised procedures for transforming raw materials into finished products. Innovation consists of any change in technology which has tangible and lasting effect on human practices, whether or not it provides utilitarian advantages. Prehistoric societies were never static, but the tempo of innovation occasionally increased to the point that we can refer to transformation taking place. Prehistorians must therefore identify factors promoting or hindering innovation.

    This volume stems from an international workshop, organised by the Collaborative Research Centre 1266 'Scales of Transformation' at Kiel University in November 2017. The meeting challenged its participants to detect and explain technological change in the past and its role in transformation processes, using archaeological and ethnographic case studies. The papers draw mainly on examples from prehistoric Europe, but case-studies from Iran, the Indus Valley, and contemporary central America are also included. The authors adopt several perspectives, including cultural-historical, economic, environmental, demographic, functional, and agent-based approaches.

    These case studies often rely on interdisciplinary research, whereby field archaeology, archaeometric analysis, experimental archaeology and ethnographic research are used together to observe and explain innovations and changes in the artisan's repertoire. The results demonstrate that interdisciplinary research is becoming essential to understanding transformation phenomena in prehistoric archaeology, superseding typo-chronological description and comparison.

    This book is a scholarly publication aimed at academic researchers, particularly archaeologists and archaeological scientists working on ceramics, osseous and metal artefacts.


    Contents

    Preface
    Michela Spataro

    Introduction
    Michela Spataro and Martin Furholt

    Understanding the acceptance of innovative technical skills across time. Ethnographic and theoretical insights from Latin America
    Dean E. Arnold

    Innovation or inheritance? Assessing the social mechanisms underlying ceramic technological change in early Neolithic pottery assemblages in Central Europe
    Louise Gomart, Alexandra Anders, Attila Kreiter, Tibor Marton, Krisztián Oross and Pál Raczky

    Changes in the pottery production of the Linear Pottery Culture. Origins and directions of ideas
    Anna Rauba-Bukowska and Agnieszka Czekaj-Zastawny

    Innovations in ceramic technology in the context of culture change north of the Carpathians at the turn of the 6th and 5th millennia BC
    Sławomir Kadrow

    Neolithic pottery innovation in context. A model and case study from the Central and Western Balkans
    Robert Hofmann

    Technological innovation and social change. Early vs. late Neolithic pottery production of the Central Balkans
    Jasna Vuković

    Technological changes and innovations in the osseous industries in the early and late Neolithic in the Balkans
    Selena Vitezović

    Early wheel-made pottery in the Carpathian Basin
    Szabolcs Czifra, Éva Kovács-Széles, Orsolya Viktorik, Péter Pánczél and Attila Kreiter

    The onset of wheel-throwing in Middle Asia. A neolithic innovation?
    Massimo Vidale

    Technological Innovation. Defining terms and examining process through the talc-faience complex in the Indus Civilization
    Heather Margaret-Louise Miller

    Skill in high-temperature crafts. An artisanal perspective on fire
    Katarina Botwid
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    Binding : Paperback
    Distributievorm : Boek (print, druk)
    Formaat : Niet bekend
    Aantal pagina's : 246
    Uitgeverij : Sidestone Press Academics
    ISBN : 9789088908248
    Datum publicatie : 12-2019
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