Maikel H G Kuijpers
Biographic Data
| ID | 143748 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maikel H G Kuijpers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maikel H G |
| FAMILY NAME | Kuijpers |
| SIGNATURE | KUIJPERS M H G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9923-0441 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
What Does Bronze Do? Part II
What Does Bronze Do? Part I
Materials and Skills in the History of Knowledge
This essay assesses the connections between craft, science, and technology, which I explore through the notion of skill. In particular, what we can learn from studying things and materials? Where do the properties of materials fit in the history of science and technology? Materiality, I argue, allows for a synthetic kind of thinking in line with the approach taken by Joseph Needham in his seven-volume Science and Civilisation in China (1954-84). …
A Sensory Update to the Chaîne Opératoire in Order to Study Skill
This paper introduces the methodology of perceptive categories through which an empirical analysis of skill is achievable, taking European Bronze Age metalworking as a case study. Based on scientific data provided by the material sciences, in this case compositional and metallographic analyses of Late Copper Age and Early Bronze Age axes, the thresholds to categorise and interpret these data, and organise them in a chaîne opératoire , are centred…
Quantitative comparisons of the color of CuAs, CuSn, CuNi, and CuSb alloys
The Bronze Age, a World of Specialists? Metalworking from the Perspective of Skill and Material Specialization
This article starts from the observation that the social persona of ‘specialist’ is an important analytical unit in archaeology, typically to model social (craft) organization from a Marxist perspective. This has caused this concept to solidify around economic rather than material concerns. I argue that the ‘specialist’ has become too much an ideational concept that is no longer accurately rooted in archaeological artefacts. Hence, through a brie…
Archaeology and the Senses
In this daring book Hamilakis takes on the difficult topic of sensory experience, typically thought of as problematic, at least for archaeologists, and draws this into an even more intangible area
Bracers or Bracelets? About the Functionality and Meaning of Bell Beaker Wrist-guards
The Bell Beaker bracers, or wrist-guards, are traditionally thought to have functioned as archery equipment, protecting the arm against the sting of the bowstring. Their position on the body is therefore thought to have been on the inside of the lower arm. Through analysis of the position in which wrist-guards are found, we have come to the conclusion that they were, however, more often than not fastened to the outside of the arm, which leads us …
Quantitative comparisons of the color of CuAs, CuSn, CuNi, and CuSb alloys
The Bronze Age, a World of Specialists? Metalworking from the Perspective of Skill and Material Specialization
This article starts from the observation that the social persona of ‘specialist’ is an important analytical unit in archaeology, typically to model social (craft) organization from a Marxist perspective. This has caused this concept to solidify around economic rather than material concerns. I argue that the ‘specialist’ has become too much an ideational concept that is no longer accurately rooted in archaeological artefacts. Hence, through a brie…
A Sensory Update to the Chaîne Opératoire in Order to Study Skill
This paper introduces the methodology of perceptive categories through which an empirical analysis of skill is achievable, taking European Bronze Age metalworking as a case study. Based on scientific data provided by the material sciences, in this case compositional and metallographic analyses of Late Copper Age and Early Bronze Age axes, the thresholds to categorise and interpret these data, and organise them in a chaîne opératoire , are centred…
Bracers or Bracelets? About the Functionality and Meaning of Bell Beaker Wrist-guards
The Bell Beaker bracers, or wrist-guards, are traditionally thought to have functioned as archery equipment, protecting the arm against the sting of the bowstring. Their position on the body is therefore thought to have been on the inside of the lower arm. Through analysis of the position in which wrist-guards are found, we have come to the conclusion that they were, however, more often than not fastened to the outside of the arm, which leads us …
Archaeology and the Senses
In this daring book Hamilakis takes on the difficult topic of sensory experience, typically thought of as problematic, at least for archaeologists, and draws this into an even more intangible area
Bracers or Bracelets? About the Functionality and Meaning of Bell Beaker Wrist-guards
The Bell Beaker bracers, or wrist-guards, are traditionally thought to have functioned as archery equipment, protecting the arm against the sting of the bowstring. Their position on the body is therefore thought to have been on the inside of the lower arm. Through analysis of the position in which wrist-guards are found, we have come to the conclusion that they were, however, more often than not fastened to the outside of the arm, which leads us …
Archaeology and the Senses
In this daring book Hamilakis takes on the difficult topic of sensory experience, typically thought of as problematic, at least for archaeologists, and draws this into an even more intangible area
A Sensory Update to the Chaîne Opératoire in Order to Study Skill
This paper introduces the methodology of perceptive categories through which an empirical analysis of skill is achievable, taking European Bronze Age metalworking as a case study. Based on scientific data provided by the material sciences, in this case compositional and metallographic analyses of Late Copper Age and Early Bronze Age axes, the thresholds to categorise and interpret these data, and organise them in a chaîne opératoire , are centred…
Quantitative comparisons of the color of CuAs, CuSn, CuNi, and CuSb alloys
The Bronze Age, a World of Specialists? Metalworking from the Perspective of Skill and Material Specialization
This article starts from the observation that the social persona of ‘specialist’ is an important analytical unit in archaeology, typically to model social (craft) organization from a Marxist perspective. This has caused this concept to solidify around economic rather than material concerns. I argue that the ‘specialist’ has become too much an ideational concept that is no longer accurately rooted in archaeological artefacts. Hence, through a brie…
Materials and Skills in the History of Knowledge
This essay assesses the connections between craft, science, and technology, which I explore through the notion of skill. In particular, what we can learn from studying things and materials? Where do the properties of materials fit in the history of science and technology? Materiality, I argue, allows for a synthetic kind of thinking in line with the approach taken by Joseph Needham in his seven-volume Science and Civilisation in China (1954-84). …
What Does Bronze Do? Part II
What Does Bronze Do? Part I
Archaeology (7 works) · History (6 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (5 works) · Bronze (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · History (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Craft (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Metallurgy and Cultural Artifacts (3 works)