Archaeological Approaches to Technology
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A01=Heather Margaret-Louise Miller
ancient
ancient manufacturing
ARABIAN Sea
Archaeological Field Techniques
archaeological science
archaeometry methods
Artificial Materials
Author_Heather Margaret-Louise Miller
boats
Casas Grandes
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chaA(R)ne opA(C)ratoire
Clay Body
craft specialization
Cross-craft Interactions
Data Sets
der
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
Experimental Archaeology
Fast Wheel
Fiber Crafts
Fired Clay Objects
Firing Structures
Glazed Objects
leeuw
Milkweed Fiber
Millennium BCE
Plank Boats
pottery
Pottery Production
preindustrial materials
production
reed
Reed Boats
Sewn Plank Boats
Sinter Point
Stone Adze
style
technological
technological analysis in archaeology
Technological Style
Term Material Culture
van
Van Der Leeuw
Warp Strands
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- ISBN 9781598744736
- Weight: 646g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Sep 2009
- Publisher: Left Coast Press Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book is designed for upper-division undergraduate and graduate level archaeology students taking courses in ancient technologies, archaeological craft production, material culture, the history of technology, archaeometry, and field methods. This text can also serve as a general introduction and 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 technologies, that is, the ways in which objects and materials were made and used can reveal insights into economic, social, political, and ritual realms of the past. This book summarizes the current state of ancient technology studies by emphasizing methodologies, some major technologies, and the questions and issues that drive archaeologists in their consideration of these technologies. It shows the ways that technology studies can be used by archaeologists working anywhere, on any type of society and it embraces an orientation toward the practical, not the philosophical. It 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. It includes socially contextualized case studies, as well as general descriptions of technological processes. It discusses essential terminology (technology, material culture, chaine operatoire, etc.), primarily from the perspective of how these terms are used by archaeologists.
Healther M.-L. Miller is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. Her academic interests include the social and political structure of state-level societies, particularly in South Asia, as well as the archaeological study of technology and material culture.
