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Knowledge Networks and Craft Traditions in the Ancient World: Material Crossovers

Knowledge Networks and Craft Traditions in the Ancient World: Material Crossovers

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Series: Routledge Studies in Archaeology

Art HistoryArchaeologyGeneral Art Instruction

ISBN10: 0415843642
ISBN13: 9780415843645
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 29 2014
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.40
Language: English

This edited volume investigates knowledge networks based on materials and associated technologies in Prehistoric Europe and the Classical Mediterranean. It emphasises the significance of material objects to the construction, maintenance, and collapse of networks of various forms - which are central to explanations of cultural contact and change. The authors, well-known experts and early career researchers, provide concise case studies that cover a wide range of materials. The scope of the book extends from networks of craft traditions to implications for society in a wider sense: materials, objects, and the technologies used to make and distribute them are interwoven with social meaning. People make objects, but objects make people - the materiality of objects shapes our understanding of the world and our place within it. In this book, objects are treated as clues to social networks of different sorts that can be contrasted and compared, both spatially and diachronically.

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