Metals, Minds and Mobility: Integrating Scientific Data With Archaeological Theory - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1785709054 ISBN 13 : 9781785709050

Editeur : Oxbow Books, 2018

Synopsis

Metals, Minds and Mobility seeks to integrate archaeometallurgical data with archaeological theory to address longstanding questions about mechanisms of exchange, mobility and social complexity in prehistory. The circulation of metal has long been viewed as a catalyst for social, economic and population changes in Europe. New techniques and perspectives derived from archaeological science can shed new light on the understanding of the movement of people, materials and technological knowledge. In recent years these science-based approaches have situated mobility at the forefront of the archaeological debate. Advances in the characterization of metals and metallurgical residues combined with more sophisticated approaches to data analysis add greater resolution to provenance studies. Though offering better pictures of artifact source, the explanation of artifact distribution across geographic space requires the use of theoretically informed models and solid archaeological evidence to discern differences between the circulation of raw materials, ingots, objects, craftspeople and populations. Bringing together many leading expert contributions addressing topics that include the invention, innovation, and transmission of metallurgical knowledge; archaeometric based models of exchange; characterization and discrimination of different modes of material circulation; and the impact of metals on social complexity. The 13 papers are organized in three main sections dealing with key debates in archaeology: transmission of metallurgical technologies, knowledge, and ideas; prestige economies and exchange; and circulation of metal as commodities and concludes with a review of current approaches, situating the volume in a broader context and identifying future research directions.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Xosé-Lois Armada is a researcher at the Spanish National Research Council, Santiago de Compostela. His research interests are in protohistoric metallurgy and its social interpretation, prestige objects and metals as an expression of power, ancient mining and metal as a motivating factor for interactions and social change on a regional scale

Mercedes Murillo-Barroso is a Marie Curie IE Fellow based at the UCL Institute of Archaeology. Her research interests focus on social archaeology especially concerning the debates about the origins of metallurgy and its relationship with social inequality.

Mike Charlton is a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the UCL Institute of Archaeology, having received his PhD from the same in 2007. His research focuses on the integration of materials characterisation (especially analytical chemistry) with Darwinian approaches to archaeology in an effort to better understand the evolution of craft production and exchange systems as well as their interrelationships with other aspects of the social and natural environments

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxbow Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1785709054
• ISBN 13: 9781785709050
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 200
• Éditeur: Armada Xosé-Lois, Murillo-Barroso Mercedes, Charlton Mike
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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