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Series:   Elements in Archaeological Perspectives on Materials and Technologies

An Archaeological Perspective on the History of Technology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2023

A. Mark Pollard  and
Chris Gosden
A. Mark Pollard
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
Chris Gosden
Affiliation:
University of Oxford

Summary

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.
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Series: Elements in Archaeological Perspectives on Materials and Technologies
Online ISBN: 9781009184205
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication: 23 February 2023

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