Learning Technology

Cultural Inheritance and Neolithic Pottery Production in the Alcoi Basin, Alicante, Spain

Datos Bibliográficos

ID23554152
AutoresSarah B Mcclure
Año2011
Páginas159
Fecha de publicación2011-01-01
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaLearning Technology (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialUniversity of Michigan Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.30861/9781407308777
OpenAlexW423357864
Open LibraryOL39235132M
ISBN9781407308777
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3

The dynamic relationship between technology, technological practice, and society is the focus of this book, based on the analysis of Neolithic pottery production in Valencia, eastern Spain. Two main questions frame this study: 1) what are the changes in technological practices in the manufacture of pottery during the Neolithic, and 2) how do these changes articulate with shifts in other realms of society? In order to address these questions the author turned to insights and discussions on the role of technology in society in evolutionary theory, agency-based approaches, and behavioral archaeology to frame the study in relevant, anthropological terms. With a set of explicit hypotheses the author then uses standard archaeological methods in the analysis of prehistoric pottery to reconstruct production techniques and evaluate the hypotheses.

Agency (philosophy) · Archaeology · Frame (networking) · Geography · Inheritance (genetic algorithm) · Pottery · Prehistory · Production (economics) · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Archaeological and Geological Studies · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Engineering · History · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Antiquities · Culture diffusion · Keramik · Neolithikum · Prehistoric Pottery