Publisher: Acаdemic Prеss: 2006 - 298 p. ISBN: 0124969518
Designed for upper-division undergraduate and graduate level
archaeology students taking courses in ancient technologies,
archaeological craft production, material culture, the history of
technologies, archaeometry, and field procedures. This text may
also serve as a common introduction as nicely as a reference for
archaeologists, material culture specialists in socio-cultural
disciplines, and engineers/scientists interested in the backgrounds
and histories of their disciplines.
The study of ancient technologiesthat is, the approaches in which
objects and supplies had been made and usedcan reveal insights into
economic, social, political, and ritual realms of the past. This
book summarizes the present state of ancient technologies studies
by emphasizing methodologies, some main technologies, and also the
questions and problems that drive archaeologists in their
consideration of these technologies. It shows the approaches that
technologies studies could be utilized by archaeologists working
anyplace, on any kind of society and it embraces an orientation
toward the practical, not the philosophical.
* Compares the range of pre-industrial technologies, from stone
tool production, fiber crafts, wood and bone working, fired clay
crafts, metal production, and glass manufacture
* Consists of socially contextualized case studies, as nicely as
common descriptions of technological processes
* Discusses important terminology (technologies, material culture,
chane opratoire, and so on.), mainly from the perspective of how
these terms are utilized by archaeologists
Miller Margaret-Louise. Archaeological Approaches to Technology
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