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
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