Tracing Prehistoric Social Networks through Technology - A Diachronic Perspective on the Aegean (Hardcover)

This book presents ten papers about prehistoric Aegean people, technologies, and social networks. The geographical, chronological and methodological approaches employed in all papers weld them together into a single research theme. These papers demonstrate the value and the beauty of employing, to a more or lesser degree, the combined methodologies of cha ne op ratoire (operational chain) and cross-craft interaction. It is the theoretical underpinnings, though, that move this volume well beyond Aegean boundaries and open it up to wider anthropological and archaeological interests in pre-industrial technologies and their linked-in social networks.

This dynamic collaboration resulted in what we hoped for; opening windows on people 's past interactions with each other and material worlds, while our contemporary lives intertwined with cross-fertilized ideas, as the unique outcome of our efforts.

This volume brings together the expertise of ten people and presents a holistic approach to materials and technology studies on ceramics, orality, stone tools, figurines, music, gender issues, weights, apiculture, leftovers, and warfare. We believe that having teamed up on a search for such past social networks through multiple technologies, we have brought this past somewhat closer to our present.

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