Craft Specialization and Social Evolution: In Memory of V. Gordon Childe

ISBN-13: 9780924171437 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 256 str.

V. Gordon Childe

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Craft Specialization and Social Evolution In Memory of V. Gordon Childe Edited by Bernard Wailes V. Gordon Childe was the first scholar to attempt a broad and sustained socioeconomic analysis of the archaeology of the ancient world in terms that, today, could be called explanatory. To most, he was remembered only as a diligent synthesizer whose whole interpretation collapsed when its chronology was demolished. There was little recognition of his insistence that the emergence of craft specialists, and their very variable roles in the relations of production, were crucial to an understanding of social evolution. The interrelationship between sociopolitical complexity and craft production is a critical one, so critical that one might ask, just how complex would any society have become without craft specialization. This volume derives from the papers presented at a symposium at the American Anthropological Association meetings on the centenary of Childe's birth. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 1996 256 pages 35 illus. ISBN 978-0-924171-43-7 Cloth $49.95s 32.50 World Rights Archaeology, Anthropology