Craft specialization and social evolution
Subtitle: in memory of V. Gordon Childe
By: Bernard Wailes, editor.
Contributors: Childe, V. Gordon 1892-1957.; Wailes, Bernard.
Series: University Museum monograph ;; 93; University Museum symposium series ;; v. 6
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthroplogy
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: Childe, V. Gordon 1892-1957.; Prehistoric peoples.; Civilization, Ancient.; History, Ancient.; Archaeology.; Material culture.; Social evolution.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: V. Gordon Childe and the relations of production / Bernard Wailes; value: Gordon Childe and the socioeconomic position of craft specialists in early Mesopotamia / Richard L. Zettler; value: Producers, patrons, and prestige : craft specialists and emergent elites in Mesopotamia from 5500-3100 B.C. / Gil J. Stein; value: Childe and "the barbarians" : a reconsideration / Philip L. Kohl; value: G. Childe's world system and the daggers of the early Bronze Age / David W. Anthony; value: Craft specialization in late prehistoric Mediterranean Europe / Antonio Gilman; value: "Inventiveness and ingenuity"? craft specialization, metallurgy, and the Westmediterranean Bronze Age / Robert Chapman; value: Location, organization, and specialization of craft production in late prehistoric Central Europe / Peter S. Wells; value: The wool trade and the rise of urbanism in middle Saxon England / Pam J. Crabtree; value: Death of a salesman : Childe's itinerant craftsman in the light of present knowledge of late prehistoric European craft production / D. Blair Gibson; value: Contexts of specialization : V. Gordon Childe and social evolution / Rita P. Wright; value: Craft production and social evolution during the Longshan period of Northern China / Anne P. Underhill; value: From community craft to regional specialization : intensification of copper production in pre-state Thailand / Joyce C. White and Vincent C. Pigott; value: Metals, specialization, and development in early eastern and southern Asia / Bennet Bronson; value: Craft specialization and Olmec civilization / John E. Clark; value: Craft specialization and social change along the southern Gulf Coast of Mexico / Philip J. Arnold; value: Craft production and mobilization strategies in the Inka Empire / Cathy L. Costin; value: Postscript : the continuing interest in V. Gordon Childe / Jeremy A. Sabloff; value: But Gordon, where are the people? some comments on the topic of craft specialization and social evolution / Ruth Tringham.