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Early Pottery in the Southeast: Tradition and Innovation in Cooking Technology - Couverture souple

Sassaman, Kenneth E.

 
9780817306700: Early Pottery in the Southeast: Tradition and Innovation in Cooking Technology
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0817306706 ISBN 13 : 9780817306700
Editeur : The University of Alabama Press, 1993

Synopsis

A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication

Among southeastern Indians pottery was an innovation that enhanced the economic value of native foods and the efficiency of food preparation. But even though pottery was available in the Southeast as early as 4,500 years ago, it took nearly two millenia before it was widely used. Why would an innovation of such economic value take so long to be adopted?

The answer lies in the social and political contexts of traditional cooking technology. Sassaman's book questions the value of using technological traits alone to mark temporal and spatial boundaries of prehistoric cultures and shows how social process shapes the prehistoric archaeological record.


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À propos de l'auteur

Kenneth E. Sassaman is Research Archaeologist at the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology.

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Éditeur
The University of Alabama Press
Date d'édition
1993
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0817306706
ISBN 13 
9780817306700
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
312
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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