An archaeological perspective on the history of technology / A. Mark Pollard (University of Oxford) and Chris Gosden (University of Oxford)

• VerfasserIn: Pollard, A. M. 1954-
• Sonstige: Gosden, Chris 1955-
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Cambridge elements Elements in archaeological perspectives on materials and technologies
• Physical Description: 71 Seiten; Illustrationen; 23 cm
• Notes: Literaturverzeichnis Seite [61]-71

This volume represents an introduction to a new world-wide attempt to review the history of technology, which is one of few since the pioneering publications of the 1960s. It takes an explicit archaeological focus to the study of the history of technology and adopts a more explicit socially-embedded view of technology than has commonly been the case in mainstream histories of technology. In doing so, it attempts to introduce a more radical element to explanations of technological change, involving magic, alchemy, animism ? in other words, attempting to consider technological change in terms of the 'world view' of those involved in such change rather than from an exclusively western scientific perspective