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Detecting and explaining technological innovation in prehistory
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ISBN: 9789088908248 9088908249 9789088908255 9088908257 9088908265 Year: 2020 Publisher: Leiden : Sidestone Press,

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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.


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Ceramics, cuisine and culture : the archaeology and science of kitchen pottery in the ancient Mediterranean world
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ISBN: 9781782979470 1782979476 9781782979487 1782979484 9781782979494 1782979492 9781782979500 1782979506 Year: 2015 Publisher: Oxford & Havertown Oxbow books

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"The 23 papers presented here are the product of the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and approaches to the study of kitchen pottery between archaeologists, material scientists, historians and ethnoarchaeologists. They aim to set a vital but long-neglected category of evidence in its wider social, political and economic contexts. Structured around main themes concerning technical aspects of pottery production; cooking as socio-economic practice; and changing tastes, culinary identities and cross-cultural encounters, a range of social economic and technological models are discussed on the basis of insights gained from the study of kitchen pottery production, use and evolution. Much discussion and work in the last decade has focussed on technical and social aspects of coarse ware and in particular kitchen ware. The chapters in this volume contribute to this debate, moving kitchen pottery beyond the Binfordian 'technomic' category and embracing a wider view, linking processualism, ceramic-ecology, behavioural schools, and ethnoarchaeology to research on historical developments and cultural transformations covering a broad geographical area of the Mediterranean region and spanning a long chronological sequence"--Publisher's information.

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Pottery, Ancient --- Cookware --- Cooking --- Material culture --- Social archaeology --- Céramique antique --- Batterie de cuisine --- Cuisine --- Culture matérielle --- Archéologie sociale --- History --- Social aspects --- Histoire --- Aspect social --- To 1500 --- Mediterranean Region --- Méditerranée, Région de la --- Antiquities. --- Antiquités --- Kitchen utensils --- Ethnoarchaeology --- Manners and customs --- Social archaeology. --- Social change --- Social life and customs --- Social life and customs. --- Céramique antique --- Culture matérielle --- Archéologie sociale --- Méditerranée, Région de la --- Antiquités --- Ethnic archaeology --- Ethnicity in archaeology --- Ethnology in archaeology --- Archaeology --- Ethnology --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Social history --- Social evolution --- Culture --- Folklore --- Technology --- Cookery --- Food preparation --- Food science --- Home economics --- Cookbooks --- Dinners and dining --- Food --- Gastronomy --- Table --- Cooking utensils --- Household goods --- Household utensils --- Kitchenware --- Ancient pottery --- Pottery --- Methodology --- Equipment and supplies --- Circum-Mediterranean countries --- Mediterranean Area --- Mediterranean countries --- Mediterranean Sea Region --- Pottery, Ancient - Mediterranean Region --- Kitchen utensils - Mediterranean Region - Congresses --- Material culture - Mediterranean Region - History - To 1500. --- Social archaeology - Mediterranean Region --- Ethnoarchaeology - Mediterranean Region --- Mediterranean Region - History - To 1500 --- Cookware - Mediterranean Region - History - To 1500 --- Cooking - Social aspects - Mediterranean Region - History - To 1500 --- Mediterranean Region - Social life and customs --- Cooking - Social aspects

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