Studying technological change
Subtitle: a behavioral approach
By: Michael Brian Schiffer
Series: Foundations of archaeological inquiry
Publisher: University of Utah Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Salt Lake City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9781607811367
Subjects: Human behavior; Methodology; Social aspects; Technological innovations; Archaeology; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Building a "crap detector"; title: A conceptual scheme; title: Social needs and technological change; title: Some basic invention processes; title: Technology-stimulated invention; title: Development and resource acquisition; title: Development and the design process; title: Manufacture; title: Adoption; title: Large-scale processes of aggregate technologies; title: Reflections.