The challenge of 'technological choices' for materials science approaches in archaeology

Archaeometry

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 2-20

  Sillar, B ^a   Tite, M S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anthropology; Ceramics; Cha ne op ratoire; Choices; Ethnoarchaeology; Kilns; Materials science; Technological

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034131588     PISSN: 0003813X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4754.2000.tb00863.x     Document Type: Article

References (74)

1. Appadurai, A. (ed.), 1986, The social life of things: commodities in cultural perspective, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge.
2. Arnold. D. E., 1985, Ceramic theory and cultural process, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge.
3. Arnold, P. J. III, 1991, Domestic ceramic production and spatial organization; a Mexican case study in ethnoarchaeology, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge.
4. Bijker, W., Hughes, T., and Pinch, T. (eds.), 1987, The social construction of technological systems: new directions in the sociology and history of technology, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
5. Bourdieu, P., 1977, Outline of a theory of practice, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge.
6. Bronitsky, G., and Hamer, R., 1986, Experiments in ceramic technology: the effects of various tempering materials on impact and thermal-shock resistance, Am. Antiquity, 51, 89-101.
7. Childe, V. G., 1956, Society and knowledge, Allen and Unwin, London.
8. Cort, L., Lefferts, L., and Reith, C., 1997, 'Before' paddle-and-anvil: contributions from contemporary mainland southeast Asia, unpubl. paper presented at the 'Ceramic technology and production' conference, British Museum, London.
9. Costin, C. L., 1991, Craft specialization: issues in defining, documenting, and explaining the organization of production, in Archaeological method and theory: 3 (ed. M. Schiffer), 1-56, Academic Press, New York.
10. Costin, C. L., Earle, T. K., Owen, B., and Russell, G., 1989, The impact of the Inca conquest on local technology in the Upper Mantaro Valley, Peru, in van der Leeuw and Torrence 1989, 107-39.
11. Cresswell, R., 1972, Les trois sources d'une technologie nouvelle, in Langues et techniques, nature et société II: approche ethnologique, approche naturaliste (eds. J. Thomas and L. Bernot), 21-7, Klincksieck, Paris.
12. Cresswell, R., 1976, Avant-propos, Techniques et Culture, 1, 5-6.
13. Cresswell, R., 1990, 'A new technology' revisited, Archaeol. Rev. Cambridge, 9 (1), 39-54.
14. Dobres, M.-A., and Hoffman, C. R., 1994, Social agency and the dynamics of prehistoric technology, J. Archaeol. Method Theory, 1 (3), 211-58.
15. Dobres, M.-A., and Hoffman, C. R. (eds.), 1999, The social dynamics of technology: practice, politics, and world views, Smithsonian Inst. Press, Washington, DC.
16. Earle, T., 1981, Comment on Rice, 'Evolution of specialized pottery production: a trial model', Curr. Anthropol., 22 (3), 230-1.
17. Feathers, J. F., 1989, Effects of temper on strength of ceramics: response to Broniksky and Hamer, Am. Antiquity, 54, 579-88.
18. Giddens, A., 1984, The constitution of society: outline of a theory of structuration, Polity Press, Cambridge.
19. Gosselain, O. P., 1992, Bonfire of the enquiries. Pottery firing temperatures in archaeology: what for?, J. Archaeol. Sci., 19 (2), 243-59.
20. Gosselain, O. P., and Livingstone Smith, A., 1995, The ceramics and society project: an ethnographic and experimental approach to technological choices, in The aim of laboratory analyses of ceramics in archaeology (eds. A. Lindahl and O. Stilborg), 147-60, Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien Konferenser, 34, Stockholm.
21. Henderson, J., 1996, New light on early Islamic industry: excavations in Raqqa, Syria, in From River Trent to Raqqa (ed. R. J. A. Wilson), 59-71, Univ. Nottingham Stud. Archaeometry, 1, Nottingham.
22. Hill, J., and Gunn, J. (eds.), 1997, The individual in prehistory, Academic Press, New York.
23. Hoard, R. J., O'Brien, M. J., Khorasgany, M. G., and Gopalaratnam, V. S., 1995, A materials-science approach to understanding limestone-tempered pottery from the midwestern United States, J. Archaeol. Sci., 22, 823-32.
24. Hodder, I., 1986, Reading the past: current approaches to interpretation in archaeology, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge.
25. Ingold, T., 1988, Tools, minds, and machines: an excursion in the philosophy of technology. Techniques et Culture, 12, 151-76.
26. Ingold, T., 1990, Society, nature and the concept of technology, Archaeol. Rev. Cambridge, 9 (1), 5-17.
27. Ingold, T., 1999, Forward, in Dobres and Hoffman 1999, vii-xii.
28. Jones, M. U., and Rodwell, W., 1973, Romano-British pottery kilns from Mucking, Essex, Trans. Essex Archaeol. Soc., 5, 13-47.
29. Jones, A., 1997, A biography of ceramics: food and culture in late Neolithic Orkney, unpubl. Ph.D. thesis, Univ. Glasgow.
30. Latour, B., 1991, Technology is society made durable, in Law 1991, 105-31.
31. Latour, B., 1996, Aramis or the love of technology, Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, MA.
32. Law, J. (ed.), 1991, A sociology of monsters: essays on power, technology and domination, Routledge Sociol. Rev. Monographs, 38, London.
33. Lechtman, H., 1977, Style in technology: some early thoughts, in Material culture: style, organization, and dynamics of technology, (eds. H. Lechtman and T. S. Merrill), 3-20, West Publishing Co., St. Paul, MN.
34. Lechtman, H., 1979, Issues in Andean metallurgy, in Pre-Columbian metallurgy of South America (ed. E. P. Benson), 1-40, Dumbarton Oaks Res. Lib., Harvard Univ., Washington.
35. Lechtman, H., 1984, Andean value systems and the development of prehistoric metallurgy, Technology Culture, 25, 1-36.
36. Lemonnier, P., 1986, The study of material culture today: towards an anthropology of technical systems, J. Anthropol. Archaeol., 5, 147-86.
37. Lemonnier, P., 1992, Elements for an anthropology of technology, Museum of Anthropology Anthropol. Pap., 88, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
38. Lemonnier P., 1993, Introduction, in Technological choices: transformations in material cultures since the Neolithic (ed. P. Lemonnier), 1-35, Routledge, London.
39. Leroi-Gourhan, A., 1964, Le geste et la parole I: techniques et langage, A. Michel, Paris.
40. Leroi-Gourhan, A., 1965, Le geste et la parole II: la mémoire el les rythmes, A. Michel, Paris.
41. Lyne, M. A. B., and Jefferies, R. S., 1979, The Alice Holt/Farnham Roman pottery industry, Counc. Brit. Archaeol. Res. Rep., 30, London.
42. Miller, D., 1987, Material culture and mass consumption, Blackwell, Oxford.
43. Nicholson, P. T., 1995, Recent excavations at an ancient Egyptian glassworks: Tell el-Amarna 1993, Glass Technol., 36 (4), 125-28.
44. Nicholson, P. T., and Jackson, C. M., 1998, 'Kind of blue' - glass of the Amama period replicated, in The prehistory and history of glassmaking technology (ed. P. McCray), 105-20, Am. Ceram. Soc., Westerville, Ohio.
45. Peacock, D. P. S., 1982, Pottery in the Roman world: an ethnoarchaeological approach, Longman, London.
46. Peacock, D. P. S., and Williams, D. F., 1986, Amphorae and the Roman economy; an introductory guide, Longman, London.
47. Petrie, W. M. F., 1894, Tell el-Amarna, Methuen, London.
48. Pfaffenberger, B., 1988, Fetichised objects and human nature: towards an anthropology of technology, Man, 23 (2), 236-52.
49. Pfaffenberger, B., 1992, Social anthropology of technology, Annu. Rev. Anthropol., 21, 491-516.
50. Rice, P. M., 1981, Evolution of specialised pottery production; a trial model, Curr. Anthropol., 22, 219-40.
51. Rice, P. M., 1987, Pottery analysis: a sourcebook, Univ. Chicago Press, Chicago.
52. Rice, P. M., 1991, Specialization, standardization and diversity: a retrospective, in The ceramic legacy of Anna O. Shepard (eds. R. L. Bishop and F. W. Lange), 257-79, Univ. Colorado Press, Colorado.
53. Rye, O. S., 1981, Pottery technology: principles and reconstructions, Smithsonian Inst. Manuals Archaeol., 4, Washington, DC.
54. Schiffer, M. B., 1975, Behavioural chain analysis: activities, organization, and the use of space, Fieldania, 65, 103-74.
55. Schiffer, M. B., 1992, Technological perspectives on behavioural change, Univ. Arizona Press, Tucson.
56. Schiffer, M. B., 1996, Formation process of the historical and archaeological records, in Learning from things (ed. W. D. Kingery), 73-80, Smithsonian Inst., Washington, DC.
57. Schiffer, M. B., and Skibo, M., 1987, Theory and experiment in the study of technological change, Curr. Anthropol., 28 (5), 595-622.
58. Schiffer, M. B., and Skibo, M., 1997, The explanation of artifact variability, Am. Antiquity, 62, 27-50.
59. Schlanger, N., and Sinclair, A. (eds.), 1990, Technology in the humanities, Archaeol. Rev. Cambridge, 9 (1), 1-157.
60. Shimada, I., 1999, Fuel consumption and technological developments: cross-craft interaction on coastal Peru, unpubl. paper presented at the 64th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Chicago.
61. Shimada, I., Elera, C. G., Chang, V., Neff, H., Glascock, M., Wagner, U., and Gebhard, R., 1994, Hornos y produccion de ceramica durante el period formativo en Batan Grande, Costa Norte del Peru, in Teconologia y Organizacion de la Produccion de Ceramica Prehispanica en los Andes (ed. I. Shimada), 67-120, Pontifical Catholic Univ. Peru, Lima.
62. Shortland, A. J., 1998, Early vitreous materials at Amarna, unpubl. D.Phil. thesis, Univ. Oxford.
63. Sigaut, F., 1994, Technology, in Companion encyclopedia of anthropology (ed. T. Ingold), 420-59, Routledge, London.
64. Sillar, B., 1996, The dead and the drying; techniques for transforming people and things in the Andes, J. Material Culture, 1 (3), 259-89.
65. Sillar, B., 1997, Reputable pots and disreputable potters: individual and community choice in present-day pottery production and exchange in the Andes, in Not so much a pot, more a way of life: current approaches to artefact analysis in archaeology (eds. C. C. Cumberpatch and P. W. Blinkhorn), 1-20, Oxbow Monograph ser., 83, Oxford.
66. Stark, M. T. (ed.), 1998, The archaeology of social boundaries, Smithsonian Inst. Press, Washington, DC.
67. Steponaitis, V. P., 1984, Technological studies of prehistoric pottery from Alabama: physical properties and vessel function, in The many dimensions of pottery: ceramics in archaeology and anthropology (eds. S. E. van der Leeuw and A. C. Pritchard), 79-127, Albert Egges van Giffen Instituut voor prae-en protohistorie, Univ. Amsterdam, Amsterdam.
68. Swan, V. G., 1984, The pottery kilns of Roman Britain, Roy. Comm. Hist. Mon. Suppl. ser., 5, London.
69. Tite, M. S., 1988, The study of ancient ceramic technologies: past achievements and future prospects, in Science and archaeology Glasgow 1987 (eds. E. A. Slater and J. O. Tate), 9-25, Brit. Archaeol. Rep. Brit. ser., 196, Oxford.
70. van der Leeuw, S. E., 1984, Dust to dust: a transformational view of the ceramic cycle, in The many dimensions of pottery: ceramics in archaeology and anthropology (eds. S. E. van der Leeuw and A. C. Pritchard), 707-73, Albert Egges van Giffen Instituut voor prae-en protohistorie, Univ. Amsterdam, Amsterdam.
71. van der Leeuw, S. E., 1991, Variation, variability, and explanation in pottery studies, in Ceramic ethnoarchaeology (ed. W. A. Longacre), 11-39, Univ. Arizona Press, Tucson.
72. van der Leeuw, S. E., 1993, Giving the potter a choice: conceptual aspects of pottery techniques, in Technological choices: transformations in material cultures since the Neolithic (ed. P. Lemonnier), 238-88, Routledge, London.
73. van der Leeuw, S. E., and Torrence, R. (eds.), 1989, What's new? A closer look at the process of innovation, Unwin Hyman, London.
74. van der Leeuw, S. E., Papousek, D. A., and Coudart, A., 1991, Technical traditions and unquestioned assumptions: the case of pottery in Michoacan, Techniques et Culture, 17-18, 145-73.