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An Archaeology of Skill - Metalworking Skill and Material Specialization in Early Bronze Age Central Europe (Hardcover)
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An Archaeology of Skill - Metalworking Skill and Material Specialization in Early Bronze Age Central Europe (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Archaeology
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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 chaine operatoire for metal axes is
used that compares not only what 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.
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