Artisans rule
Subtitle: product standardization and craft specialization in prehistoric society
By: edited by Ina Miloglav and Jasna Vukovic .
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9781527506688
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Prehistoric Economics; Industrial archaeology
Other titles: Product standardization and craft specialization in prehistoric society
Description: "Craft production and its significance for understanding social relations are one of the essential topics in prehistoric archaeology. Standardization of raw materials, products, and manufacturing procedures, and the presence or absence of specialized artisans still challenge scholars engaged in the studies of technology, social archaeology, exchange and distribution networks and economy in the past. In this volume, seven case studies covering a chronological span from the Neolithic to La Te  ne Europe explore the notions of standardization and specialization, the nature of their interrelationship, the methods for assessing their presence in the archaeological record, and their significance for the reconstruction of social relations and emergence of social complexity, while two ethnoarchaeological studies focus on the organization of production and methods of estimation of a number of artisans. This volume brings together research from prominent scholars, based on different theoretical perspectives, thus giving new insight into the fundamental issues related to artisans and their crafts"--
Notes: "The idea for this volume originated in 2014 during the 20th Annual Meeting of European Association of Archaeologists in Istanbul"--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Artisans, Technologies, and Consumers; title: A Political Economy Approach to Craft Specialization / Timothy Earle; title: Standardized Vessels and Number of Potters: Looking for Individual Production / Valentine Roux and Avshalom Karasik; title: The Potter's Craft in Moldavia, Romania: Ethnoarchaeological Research on Ceramic Production and Technology / Felix Adrian Tencariu; title: Craft Production in the Vinc a Culture: Viewpoint from Osseous Industries / Selena Vitezovic; title: Standardization of Chipped Stone Artefacts and Patterning of Lithic Raw Material Procurement Strategies in the Late Neolithic and Early Chalcolithic in Serbia: Tradition, Strategy, or Request? / Vera Bogosavljevic  Petrovic; title: Part-time Labor and Household Production: Emergence of Specialized Potters in the Late Neolithic Vinc a (Serbia) and Late Eneolithic Vuc edol (Croatia) Societies / Jasna Vukovic  and Ina Miloglav; title: Communities of Practice and Potter's Experience: A Case Study from Southwestern Mallorca (C. 500-50 BC) / Daniel Albero Santacreu, Aixa Vidal, Jaume Garci a Rossello , and Manuel Calvo Trias; title: Assessing Standardization in Maltese Prehistoric Pottery Production: The Case of Borg in-Nadur Pottery / Valentina Copat; title: Non-standardized Specializations: The Case of Trebenis te / Stas a Babic; title: Reconstructing the Rules: Glass-making in La Te  ne Europe from Specialized Technology to Social Production / Joe lle Rolland.