An Archaeology of Skill: Metalworking Skill and Material Specialization in Early Bronze Age Central Europe (Routledge Studies in Archaeology) - Image 1

£136.11

Routledge An Archaeology of Skill: Metalworking Skill and Material Specialization in Early Bronze Age Central Europe (Routledge Studies in Archaeology)

Name: An Archaeology of Skill: Metalworking Skill and Material Specialization in Early Bronze Age Central Europe (Routledge Studies in Archaeology)
Brand: Routledge
Price: 136.11 GBP
Availability: InStock

Materials & Industries

Price History & Forecast

Last 1 days • 1 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Not enough data points to display chart (need at least 2 points)

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 1 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £136 (1 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £136 - £136

Price levels: 1 different prices over 1 days

Description

Material is the mother of innovation and it is through skill that innovations are brought about. This core thesis that is developed in this book identifies skill as the linchpin of – and missing link between – studies on craft, creativity, innovation, and material culture. Through a detailed study of early bronze age axes the question is tackled of what it involves to be skilled, providing an evidence based argument about levels of skill. The unique contribution of this work is that it lays out a theoretical framework and methodology through which an empirical analysis of skill is achievable. A specific chaîne opératoire for metal axes is used that compares not onlywhat techniques were used, but also how they were applied. A large corpus of axes is compared in terms of what skills and attention were given at the different stages of their production. The ideas developed in this book are of interest to the emerging trend of ‘material thinking’ in the human and social sciences. At the same time, it looks towards and augments the development in craft-studies, recognising the many different aspects of craft in contemporary and past societies, and the particular relationship that craftspeople have with their material. Drawing together these two distinct fields of research will stimulate (re)thinking of how to integrate production with discussions of other aspects of object biographies, and how we link arguments about value to social models.

Product Specifications

Brand: Routledge
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1138718092
Category: Books > Subjects > Science, Nature & Maths > Engineering & Technology > Production, Manufacturing & Operational > Materials & Industries
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 08 August 2017
Listed Since: 22 March 2017

Barcode

No barcode data available

Routledge An Archaeology of Skill: Metalworking Skill and Material Specialization in Early Bronze Age Central Europe (Routledge Studies in Archaeology)

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Routledge Knowledge Networks and Craft Traditions in Ancient World

Archaeological Approaches to Technology

Knowledge Networks and Craft Traditions in the Ancient World: Material Crossovers (Routledge Studies in Archaeology)

Archaeological Approaches to Technology

An Archaeology of Materials: Substantial Transformations in Early Prehistoric Europe (Routledge Studies in Archaeology)

Materiality and Consumption in the Bronze Age Mediterranean (Routledge Studies in Archaeology)

Bronze Age Metalwork Techniques and traditions in the Nordic Bronze Age 1500-1100 BC

Routledge - The Science and Archaeology of Materials Textbook

The Routledge Handbook of Material Culture in Early Modern Europe (Routledge History Handbooks)

Material Evidence: Learning from Archaeological Practice

The Science and Archaeology of Materials: An Investigation of Inorganic Materials

Creativity in the Bronze Age: Understanding Innovation in Pottery, Textile, and Metalwork Production

Archaeometallurgy in Global Perspective: Methods and Syntheses

A United Europe of Things: Portable Material Culture across Medieval Europe (Themes in Contemporary Archaeology)

The Routledge Handbook of Material Culture in Early Modern Europe (Routledge History Handbooks)

Routledge Conflict Archaeology - Materialities of Collective Violence

Gender and Society on the Margins of Bronze Age Europe

The Materiality of the Archive: Creative Practice in Context (Routledge Studies in Archives)

The Routledge Handbook of Gender Archaeology

Researching the Archaeological Past through Imagined Narratives: A Necessary Fiction (Routledge Studies in Archaeology)

The Bronze Age in Europe: An Introduction to the Prehistory of Europe c.2000-700 B.C. (Routledge Library Editions: Archaeology)

The Archaeology Coursebook: An Introduction to Themes, Sites, Methods and Skills

The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and Globalization

Environmental Archaeology: Current Theoretical and Methodological Approaches (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology)