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Learning Technology: Cultural Inheritance and Neolithic Pottery Production in the Alcoi Basin, Alicante, Spain
Sarah B. McClure
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.
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Front Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright
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Dedication
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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FOREWORD
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CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
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CHAPTER 2: TECHNOLOGY AND HUMAN SOCIETIES. THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO A COMPLEX RELATIONSHIP
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CHAPTER 3: THE NEOLITHIC IN THE ALCOI BASIN, ALICANTE, SPAIN
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CHAPTER 4: THEORETICAL CONCEPTS AND THE VALENCIAN NEOLITHIC: MODELS AND HYPOTHESES
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CHAPTER 5: THE SITES
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CHAPTER 6: THE CERAMICS OF NEOLITHIC VALENCIA
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CHAPTER 7: THE MACRO-VISUAL AND MICROSCOPIC ANALYSIS
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CHAPTER 8: SOURCING ANALYSIS (INAA)
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CHAPTER 9: CERAMIC TECHNOLOGY AND NEOLITHIC SOCIETY IN VALENCIA: DISCUSSION
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CHAPTER 10: CONCLUSIONS: CERAMIC TECHNOLOGY AND NEOLITHIC SOCIETY
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APPENDIX A: NEOLITHIC RADIOCARBON DATES FROM VALENCIA
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APPENDIX B: LIST OF INAA SAMPLES AND RESULTS
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APPENDIX C: EXAMPLES OF RECIPES AND INCLUSIONS IN THIN SECTION
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REFERENCES
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Back Cover
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Published: 2011
Publisher: BAR Publishing
- 9781407338620 (ebook)
- 9781407308777 (paperback)
BAR Number: S2300