The Archaeology Of Craft And Industry

Author : Christopher C. Fennell
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813057910

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In this expansive yet concise survey, Christopher Fennell discusses archaeological research from sites across the United States that once manufactured, harvested, or processed commodities. Through studies of craft enterprise and the Industrial Revolution, this book uncovers key insights into American history from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Exploring evidence from textile mills, glassworks, cutlery manufacturers, and tanneries, Fennell describes the complicated transition from skilled manual work to mechanized production methods, and he offers examples of how artisanal skill remained important in many factory contexts. Fennell also traces the distribution and transportation of goods along canals and railroads. He delves into sites of extraction, such as lumber mills, copper mines, and coal fields, and reviews diverse methods for smelting and shaping iron. The book features an in-depth case study of Edgefield, South Carolina, a town that pioneered the production of alkaline-glazed stoneware pottery. Fennell outlines shifts within the field of industrial archaeology over the past century that have culminated in the recognition that these locations of remarkable energy, tumult, and creativity represent the lives and ingenuity of many people. In addition, he points to ways the field can help inform sustainable strategies for industrial enterprises in the present day.

Author : Yung-ti Li
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231549639

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Kingly Crafts by Yung-ti Li Pdf

The site of Anyang, the last capital of the Shang dynasty, dated to around 1200 to 1000 BCE, is one of the most important sources of knowledge about craft production in Bronze Age China. Excavations and research of the settlement over the past ninety years demonstrate both the advanced level of Shang craft workers and the scale and capacity of the craft industries of the time. However, materials unearthed in Anyang by different expeditions have since been stored separately in China and Taiwan, making a thorough study of this important aspect of life in Shang China challenging. Despite efforts to integrate the data based on published material, the physical evidence rarely has been considered as a single group. Through a systematic analysis of the archaeological materials available in both China and Taiwan, Yung-ti Li provides a detailed picture of craft production in Anyang and paves the way for a new understanding of how the Shang capital functioned as a metropolis. Focusing on craft-producing activities, including bronze casting, bone working, shell and marble inlay working, lithic working, and pottery production, Kingly Crafts examines the material remains, the technology, and the production organization of the craft industries. Although the level of Shang craftsmanship can be seen in the finished products, Li demonstrates that it is necessary to study workshop remains and their archaeological context to reconstruct the social and political contexts of craft production. Offering a comprehensive investigation of these remains, Kingly Crafts sheds new light on the relationships between craft industries and political authority in the late Shang period.

Author : Patrick Ottaway
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : OCLC:912950196

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Craft, Industry and Everyday Life by Patrick Ottaway Pdf

Author : Ina Miloglav,Jasna Vuković
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527524866

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Artisans Rule by Ina Miloglav,Jasna Vuković Pdf

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 Tène 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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Society for Historical Archaeology
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 1957402458

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Investigations of Craft and Industrial Enterprise by Anonim Pdf

This introduction to Perspectives from Historical Archaeology: Investigations of Craft and Industrial Enterprise provides a summary of trends in the archaeology of craft and industrial enterprises over the past several decades, outlines ongoing development of theories, research questions, and interpretative frameworks, and provides an overview of the selected readings included in this volume. Industrial archaeology projects provide highly valuable contributions to scientific knowledge and heritage initiatives.

Author : Gitte Hansen
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782978053

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Everyday Products in the Middle Ages by Gitte Hansen Pdf

The medieval marketplace is a familiar setting in popular and academic accounts of the Middle Ages, but we actually know very little about the people involved in the transactions that took place there, how their lives were influenced by those transactions, or about the complex networks of individuals whose actions allowed raw materials to be extracted, hewn into objects, stored and ultimately shipped for market. Twenty diverse case studies combine leading edge techniques and novel theoretical approaches to illuminate the identities and lives of these much overlooked ordinary people, painting of a number of detailed portraits to explore the worlds of actors involved in the lives of everyday products - objects of bone, leather, stone, ceramics, and base metal - and their production and use in medieval northern Europe. In so doing, this book seeks to draw attention away from the emergent trend to return to systems and global models, and restore to centre stage what should be the archaeologists most important concern: the people of the past.

Author : Peter Roger Stuart Moorey
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 1575060426

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Ancient Mesopotamian Materials and Industries by Peter Roger Stuart Moorey Pdf

This is the first systematic attempt to survey in detail the archaeological evidence for the crafts and craftsmanship of the Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians in ancient Mesopotamia, covering the period ca. 8000-300 B.C.E. As creators of some of the earliest farming and urban communities known to us, these people were among the first pioneers of many crafts and skills that remain fundamental to modern ways of life. Many of the raw materials for crafts had to be imported from outside the river valley of the Tigris and Euphrates, providing an unusually sensitive indicator of the commercial and cultural contacts of Mesopotamia. In this book, Dr. Moorey reviews briefly the textual evidence, and then goes on to examine in detail the material evidence for a wide range of crafts using stones, both common and ornamental, animal products--from hippopotamus ivory to ostrich egg-shells--ceramics, glazed materials and glass, metals, and building materials. With a comprehensive bibliography, this will be a key work of reference for archaeologists and those interested in the early history of crafts and technology, as well as for specialist historians of the ancient Near East.

Author : Alan McWhirr
Publisher : Bloomsbury Shire Publications
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040045341

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Roman Crafts and Industries by Alan McWhirr Pdf

Author : A. J. Mainman,Nicola S. H. Rogers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : England
ISBN : IND:30000067264949

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Craft, Industry and Everyday Life by A. J. Mainman,Nicola S. H. Rogers Pdf

Author : Christopher C. Fennell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 193953125X

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Perspectives from Historical Archaeology by Christopher C. Fennell Pdf

This book examines trends in the archaeology of craft and industrial enterprises over the past several decades, outlines ongoing development of theories, research questions, and interpretative frameworks, and presents a broad array of relevant studies. Industrial archaeology projects provide highly valuable contributions to scientific knowledge and heritage initiatives.

Author : Pete Wilson,Jennifer Price
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2003-03-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785704178

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Aspects of Industry in Roman Yorkshire and the North by Pete Wilson,Jennifer Price Pdf

At the frontiers of the Roman Empire, military settlements had a profound influence on local crafting traditions. Legions were not just fighting units - they contained a large number of craftsmen, and the fortress would have been a centre of manufacturing activity. A timber legionary fortress, for example, required vast numbers of nails, many of which would have been made by legionary smiths on site, and an army of thousands would require many more pots, shoes and tents than could be produced by local domestic potters and leather workers. But can all developments in local craft and industry be seen as a result of the appearance of the Roman army? The ten papers in this volume focus on craft production in Roman Yorkshire, and the evidence for the role of the army in local manufacturing activities. Several papers examine broad questions surrounding the organisation and scale of production in urban and rural areas. Others consider the local evidence for individual materials and production processes, including those associated with pottery, glass, copper alloys, non-ferrous metals, leather, jet, and building stone.

Author : York Archaeological Trust
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : 1902771265

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The archaeology of York by York Archaeological Trust Pdf

Author : Jan Klapste
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9788771244267

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The Archaeology of Medieval Europe, Vol. 2 by Jan Klapste Pdf

The two volumes of The Archaeology of Medieval Europe together comprise the first complete account of Medieval Archaeology across the continent. This ground-breaking set will enable readers to track the development of different cultures and regions over the 800 years that formed the Europe we have today. In addition to revealing the process of Europeanisation, within its shared intellectual and technical inheritance, the complete work provides an opportunity for demonstrating the differences that were inevitably present across the continent - from Iceland to Sicily and Portugal to Finland.

Author : Peter Murphy,Patricia E. J. Wiltshire
Publisher : Symposia of the Association fo
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015060010017

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The Environmental Archaeology of Industry by Peter Murphy,Patricia E. J. Wiltshire Pdf

The environmental impact of industry is often profound and far-reaching, and has long been present in the cultural landscape, but research into the nature and relative importance of industrial activity has been somewhat neglected by environmental archaeologists. This volume presents eighteen papers deriving from a conference of the Association for Environmental Archaeology; they aim to bridge the gap between environmental and industrial archaeology. The papers address several major issues including: the effects of mining and smelting on sedimentation and vegetation in river catchments, the environmental impact of industries which are based on high-temperature processes and require reliable sources of fuel, such as metallurgy, pottery, glass and lime-making; the environmental impact of industrial processes based on biological raw materials, such as horn, bone, hides and shell; and the effects of industry on human health. Contents: Setting the Scene ( F Chambers ); Reconstructing the environmental impact of past metallurgical activities ( P D Marshall ); An environmental approach to the archaeology of tin mining on Dartmoor ( V Thorndycraft, D Pirriet and A G Brown ); Wood-based industrial fuels and their environmental impact in lowland Britain ( R Gale ); The iron production industry and its extensive demand upon woodland resources: A case study from Creeton Quarry, Lincolnshire ( J Cowgill ); Tanning and horn-working at late- and post- mediaeval Bruges ( A Ervynck, B Hillewaert, A Maes and M van Strydonck ); Tawyers, tanners, horn trade and the mystery of the missing goat ( U Albarella ); Choice and use of shells for artefacts at Roman sites in the Eastern Desert of Egypt ( S Hamilton-Dyer ); Industrial activities - some suggested microstratigraphic signatures ( R Macphail ); Deriving information efficiently from surveys of artefact distribution ( R S Shiel and S B Mohamed ); Can we identify biological indicator groups for craft, industry and other activities? ( A Hall and H Kenward ); Archaeological arthropod faunas as indicators of past industrial activitie( J Schelvis ); Charred mollusc shells as indicators of industrial activities ( P Murphy ); Saxon flax retting in river channels and the apparent lack of water pollution ( M Robinson ); The rise and fall of Rickets in England ( S A Mays ); A comparison of health in past rural, urban and industrial England ( M Lewis ); Determining occupation from skeletal remains - is it possible? ( T Waldron and W Birch ); The disposal and decomposition of human and animal remains( D W Hopkins and P E J Wiltshire ).

Author : Roberta Gilchrist
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-13
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781351551885

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Reflections: 50 Years of Medieval Archaeology, 1957-2007: No. 30 by Roberta Gilchrist Pdf

This volume celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Society for Medieval Archaeology (established in 1957), presenting reflections on the history, development and future prospects of the discipline. The papers are drawn from a series of conferences and workshops that took place in 2007-08, in addition to a number of contributions that were commissioned especially for the volume. They range from personal commentaries on the history of the Society and the growth of the subject (see papers by David Wilson and Rosemary Cramp), to historiographical, regional and thematic overviews of major trends in the evolution and current practice of medieval archaeology. All the publications are fully refereed with the aim of publishing at the highest academic level reports on sites of national and international importance, and of encouraging the widest debate. The series’ objectives are to cover the broadest chronological and geographical range and to assemble a series of volumes which reflect the changing intellectual and technical scope of the discipline.