Technology and Craft

Sofaer, Joanna; Bech, Jens-Henrik; Budden, Sandy; Choyke, Alice M.; Eriksen, Berit Valentin; Horváth, Tünde; Kovács, Gabriella; Kreiter, Attila; Mühlenbock, Christian; Stika, Hans‐Peter

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“…On-going work at the site continues to produce new data. Excavation has focused on domestic contexts, revealing a detailed picture of settlement structure and architecture (Vicze 2000;Sørensen et al 2010;Sofaer et al 2010). The settlement on the tell was very dense.…”

Section: The Tell At Százhalombattamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As a result it is possible to gain detailed insights into their construction. Walls were made of wattle and daub, floors were made of clay or beaten earth that was usually layered with clean yellow clay and covered with matting, and roofs were of thatch (Kovács 2008;Sofaer et al 2010). Internal features of the house were made of clay including built-in storage vessels and clay bins attached to the walls.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Additional small grill-like hearths, with associated clean platform-like work surfaces, were also sometimes located in the body of the main room (Sørensen et al 2010). This general description, however, disguises a complex and sophisticated use of local building materials that were deliberately combined in specific ways to create particular architectural elements (Sofaer et al 2010).…”

Section: The Tell At Százhalombattamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Interestingly, although the basic architectural form is quite prescribed, and general building methods were common between houses, there was quite a lot of variation in the method of execution even within a single house. This suggests a degree of expediency and flexibility in attitudes, perhaps arising out of a need to adapt construction to slightly unpredictable situations found on a tell surface (Sofaer et al 2010). For example, there were several different methods for fixing posts in postholes.…”

Section: The Tell At Százhalombattamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, there were several different methods for fixing posts in postholes. In some cases, posts were inserted into pre-cut holes and then packed with stones, domestic refuse or with clay around the post; in others, postholes that were cut into cultural layers were left unpacked, perhaps because they were sufficiently stable as a result of existing house material beneath (Sofaer et al 2010). Rules about construction do not, therefore, seem to have been as crucial as those to do with house size or internal organization.…”

Section: The Tell At Százhalombattamentioning

confidence: 99%

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Human Ontogeny and Material Change at the Bronze Age Tell of Százhalombatta, Hungary

Sofaer¹

2011

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This article explores the relationship between human ontogeny — how people become who they are — and material change at the Bronze Age tell of Százhalombatta, Hungary. Shifts in domestic material culture and in the use of domestic space in houses imply altered developmental experiences for people living on the tell from the Early to Middle Bronze Age. These changes produced qualitatively different kinds of people at different points in time.

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2011

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A Sensory Update to the Chaîne Opératoire in Order to Study Skill: Perceptive Categories for Copper-Compositions in Archaeometallurgy

Kuijpers

2017

J Archaeol Method Theory

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This paper introduces the methodology of perceptive categories through which an empirical analysis of skill is achievable, taking European Bronze Age metalworking as a case study. Based on scientific data provided by the material sciences, in this case compositional and metallographic analyses of Late Copper Age and Early Bronze Age axes, the thresholds to categorise and interpret these data, and organise them in a chaîne opératoire, are centred on the human senses—and thus on metalworking as a craft. This is a pragmatic approach that appreciates scientific measurements of metal objects as essential empirical evidence whilst recognising that a considerable share of these archaeometric data are inapt or too detailed for an understanding of skill. This empirical approach towards skill is relevant to our knowledge of the role of crafts and materials in the past. After all, skill is a fundamental asset for the production of material culture, and a distinct human-material relationship characterised by an intimate form of material engagement.

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Bronze Age Globalisation and Eurasian Impacts on Later Jōmon Social Change

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From northern China, millet agriculture spread to Korea and the Maritime Russian Far East by 3500–2700 BC. While the expansion of agricultural societies across the Sea of Japan did not occur until around 900 BC, the intervening period saw major transformations in the Japanese archipelago. The cultural florescence of Middle Jōmon central Honshu underwent a collapse and reorganisation into more decentralised settlements. Mobility increased as Late Jōmon influences spread from eastern into western Japan, and populations expanded to offshore islands such as Okinawa and the Kurils. In Kyushu and other parts of western Japan, the eastern Jōmon expansion was associated with the cultivation of adzuki and soybeans but, contrary to earlier assessments, there is no evidence for the introduction of cereal crops at this time. Here, we analyse archaeological and historical linguistic evidence of connections between the Eurasian mainland and the Japanese Islands c. 3500 to 900 BC. A re-evaluation of archaeological material discussed since the 1920s concludes that the transformations in Jōmon society during this period were at least in part a response to contacts with Eurasian Bronze Age cultures. Evidence for linguistic contact between Koreanic and the Ainuic languages which are presumed to have been spoken by Jōmon populations is also consistent with new Bronze Age mobilities. Although prehistoric Japan was one of the most isolated regions of Eurasia, we conclude that the historical evolution of societies in the Japanese archipelago after the third millennium BC was linked with processes of Bronze Age globalisation.

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Technology and Craft

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Human Ontogeny and Material Change at the Bronze Age Tell of Százhalombatta, Hungary

Human Ontogeny and Material Change at the Bronze Age Tell of Százhalombatta, Hungary

A Sensory Update to the Chaîne Opératoire in Order to Study Skill: Perceptive Categories for Copper-Compositions in Archaeometallurgy

Bronze Age Globalisation and Eurasian Impacts on Later Jōmon Social Change

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