Creativity in the Bronze Age
Understanding Innovation in Pottery, Textile, and Metalwork Production
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23156167 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lise Bender Jørgensen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Joanna Sofaer Derevenski, Joanna Sofaer (0000-0001-6328-8636, University of Southampton), Marie Louise Stig Sorensen (0000-0003-1752-2086, University of Cambridge) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-18 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Creativity in the Bronze Age (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/9781108344357 |
| OpenAlex | W2777942249 |
| ISBN | 9781108344357 |
| Open Library | OL34561967M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
Creativity is an integral part of human history, yet most studies focus on the modern era, leaving unresolved questions about the formative role that creativity has played in the past. This book explores the fundamental nature of creativity in the European Bronze Age. Considering developments in crafts that we take for granted today, such as pottery, textiles, and metalwork, the volume compares and contrasts various aspects of their development, from the construction of the materials themselves, through the production processes, to the design and effects deployed in finished objects. It explores how creativity is closely related to changes in material culture, how it directs responses to the new and unfamiliar, and how it has resulted in changes to familiar things and practices. Written by an international team of scholars, the case studies in this volume consider wider issues and provide detailed insights into creative solutions found in specific objects.
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Bronze · Bronze Age · Creativity · Focus (optics) · Formative assessment · Pedagogy · Political science · Pottery · Sociology · Visual arts · Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Crafts, Textile, and Design · History · Law · Bronze age · Creative ability · Metal-work, Prehistoric · Prehistoric Pottery · Prehistoric Textile fabrics
Making by Rules—Making by Reflex
Approaching sheep herds origins and the emergence of the wool economy in continental Europe during the Bronze Age
Animal fibre use in the Keriya valley (Xinjiang, China) during the Bronze and Iron Ages
Innovative or Traditional? Diachronic Approach to Weaving Technology in Bronze Age Greece
Forging a New World Order? Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Management of Metalworking and Ideological Change in the Late Bronze Age Carpathian Basin
An Undervalued Archaeological Resource
A theoretical, inequality-based model of cultural change culminating in the emergence of Biskupin-type fortified settlements
Bronze Age Woollen Textile Production in England
Beyond the Longhouse
New Book Chronicle
| Citations per year | 1.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |