An Archaeology Of Innovation

Author : Catherine J. Frieman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781526171788
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Archaeology of Innovation written by Catherine J. Frieman and published by . This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph takes a unique archaeological approach to the investigation of innovation and the innovation process. Case studies span the breadth of human history, from our earliest hominin ancestors to the contemporary world. The emphasis is on the social context and temporality of invention, adoption, creativity and resistance.

Author : Catherine J. Frieman
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526132672
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An archaeology of innovation written by Catherine J. Frieman and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An archaeology of innovation is the first monograph-length investigation of innovation and the innovation process from an archaeological perspective. It interrogates the idea of innovation that permeates our popular media and our political and scientific discourse, setting this against the long-term perspective that only archaeology can offer. Case studies span the entire breadth of human history, from our earliest hominin ancestors to the contemporary world. The book argues that the present narrow focus on pushing the adoption of technical innovations ignores the complex interplay of social, technological and environmental systems that underlies truly innovative societies; the inherent connections between new technologies, technologists and social structure that give them meaning and make them valuable; and the significance and value of conservative social practices that lead to the frequent rejection of innovations.

Author : Sander Ernst van der Leeuw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What's New? written by Sander Ernst van der Leeuw and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Janine Bourriau
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1785704222
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Invention and Innovation written by Janine Bourriau and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2004-10-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In September 2002, a second workshop on the theme of the social context of technological change was held at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge. Discussion has been the core of these meetings so far, with the aim being to relate the results of the specialist investigator to broad historical questions concerning the nature and development of ancient societies. The papers presented here address a wider context: geographically, with the inclusion of the Aegean and thematically, with papers on natural products and raw materials. The time frame remains the same in covering the Late Bronze Age/New Kingdom. The majority of the papers draw on Egyptian evidence, and illustrate a multiplicity of approaches to the problems set by ancient technologies: modelling, methodology of art history and archaeology applied to a problematic group of artefacts, integration of archaeological and textual sources, and the application of the results scientific analysis to illuminate ancient technology.

Author : Stefan Burmeister
Publisher : Exzellenzcluster Topoi
ISBN 13 : 9783981675184
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Interplay of People and Technologies written by Stefan Burmeister and published by Exzellenzcluster Topoi. This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marijke Van der Veen
Publisher : Africa Magna Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3937248234
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Consumption, Trade and Innovation written by Marijke Van der Veen and published by Africa Magna Verlag. This book was released on 2011 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AD 1-250 (Myos Hormos) and again during ca.

Author : Michela Spataro
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789088908262
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Detecting and Explaining Technological Innovation in Prehistory written by Michela Spataro and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technology refers to any set of standardised procedures for transforming raw materials into finished products. Innovation consists of any change in technology which has tangible and lasting effect on human practices, whether or not it provides utilitarian advantages. Prehistoric societies were never static, but the tempo of innovation occasionally increased to the point that we can refer to transformation taking place. Prehistorians must therefore identify factors promoting or hindering innovation.This volume stems from an international workshop, organised by the Collaborative Research Centre.

Author : Kevin Garstki
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108899315
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Digital Innovations in European Archaeology written by Kevin Garstki and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: European archaeologists in the last two decades have worked to integrate a wide range of emerging digital tools to enhance the recording, analysis, and dissemination of archaeological data. These techniques have expanded and altered the data collected by archaeologists as well as their interpretations. At the same time archaeologists have expanded the capabilities of using these data on a large scale, across platforms, regions, and time periods, utilising new and existing digital research infrastructures to enhance the scale of data used for archaeological interpretations. This Element discusses some of the most recent, innovative uses of these techniques in European archaeology at different stages of archaeological work. In addition to providing an overview of some of these techniques, it critically assesses these approaches and outlines the recent challenges to the discipline posed by self-reflexive use of these tools and advocacy for their open use in cultural heritage preservation and public engagement.

Author : Anna Collar
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 042976930X
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Networks and the Spread of Ideas in the Past written by Anna Collar and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-05-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Networks and the Spread of Ideas in the Past: Strong Ties, Innovation and Knowledge Exchange gathers contributions from an international group of scholars to reconsider the role that strong social ties play in the transmission of new ideas, and their crucial place in network analyses of the past. Drawing on case studies that range from the early Iron Age Mediterranean to medieval Britain, the contributing authors showcase the importance of looking at strong social ties in the transmission of complex information, which requires relationships structured through mutual trust, memory, and reciprocity. They highlight the importance of sanctuaries in the process of information transmission, the power of narrative in creating a sense of community even across geographical space, and the control of social systems in order to facilitate or stifle new information transfer. Networks and the Spread of Ideas in the Past demonstrates the value of searching the past for powerful social connections, offers us the chance to tell more human stories through our analyses, and represents an essential new addition to the study and use of networks in archaeology and history. The book will be useful to academics and students working in the Digital Humanities, History, and Archaeology.

Author : A. Mark Pollard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1009207105
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Archaeological Perspective on the History of Technology written by A. Mark Pollard and published by . This book was released on 2023-02-22 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume represents an introduction to a new world-wide attempt to review the history of technology, which is one of few since the pioneering publications of the 1960s. It takes an explicit archaeological focus to the study of the history of technology and adopts a more explicit socially-embedded view of technology than has commonly been the case in mainstream histories of technology. In doing so, it attempts to introduce a more radical element to explanations of technological change, involving magic, alchemy, animism - in other words, attempting to consider technological change in terms of the 'world view' of those involved in such change rather than from an exclusively western scientific perspective.