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Craft Specialization: Operational Sequences and Beyond: Papers from the EAA Third Annual Meeting at Ravenna 1997. Volume IV
Sarah Milliken and Massimo Vidale
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This book includes papers presented at a session of EAA 97 span from the Palaeolithic to modern times and address various aspects of material culture including pottery, stone tools, beads, metals and architecture. The papers reflect the widespread interest which has arrisen in the last decade in the social agency of ancient material culture production and they make a valuable contribution to the development of the theoretical foundations of the study of ancient technology.
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Front Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright
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Papers from the EAA Third Annual Meeting at Ravenna 1997
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Table of Contents
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Contributors
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INTRODUCTION
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The Ghost of Childe and the Question of Craft Specialization in the Palaeolithic
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Technical Behaviour and the Identification of Social Patterning: A Preliminary Discussion of some New Evidence from the Late Neolithic of Northern Greece
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Ornament Production Centres along the French Atlantic Coast during the Late Neolithic
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Signs of Specialization in a Settlement Group of the Lengyel Culture (Szentgál Region, Western Hungary)
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Clay, Twigs, Threads and Ritual: Ceramic "Industrial" Decoration in the East European Neolithic and Chalcolithic
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"Sequential Slab Construction" and other Problems concerning Hand-Building Techniques in Chalcolithic Iran: Experimenting with Mammographic X-Ray Images
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Biface Standardization Accompanying Organized Chert Quarrying Efforts: An Argument for Intensifying Lithic Production
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Ceramic Production Among the Maros Villagers of Bronze Age Hungary
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The Question of Specialization Levels in Pottery Production between the End of the Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age in Daunia (Southern Italy)
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Defining Social and Symbolic Changes from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age through Operational Sequences in NW Iberian Pottery
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Technological Study as a Means of Identifying Bronze Production Forms: The Archaeological Record of Etruria in the Early Iron Age Period
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Iron Production and Power: A Story of Early Large Scale Production of Iron in Mid-Norway
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The Reconstruction of Manufacturing Sequences ion the Basis of Iconography: The Case of the Foundry Cup at Berlin
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The Organization of Production in the Artisan Quarter at Rocca d'Evandro
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Glass Beads as an Archaeological Source
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Pre-industrial Mining Techniques in the Mountains of Campiglia Marittima (Livorno)
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The Production of Metals for Coinage in Mediaeval Tuscany: The Technological Context
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The Art of Making Bread by the Charcoal Burners of the Calabrian Mountains
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Towards a Theory of Social Production and Social Practice
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Operational Sequences Beyond Linearity
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Published: 1998
Publisher: BAR Publishing
- 9781407350370 (ebook)
- 9780860548973 (paperback)
BAR Number: S720
- Ethnoarchaeology / Anthropology
- Craft working (general titles, bone, glass, textiles, etc.)
- Mediterranean
- Palaeolithic / Mesolithic
- Western Europe and Britain
- Neolithic / Chalcolithic
- Scandinavia
- Lithics / Stone Tools
- Metallurgy / Mining
- Ceramics and Pottery Studies
- Mesopotamia
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Dress / Jewellery / Personal Ornament
- Migration Period, Early Medieval and Medieval
- Multiperiod
- Greece, Aegean, Crete and Black Sea