Research Catalog

Title

Craft specialization and social evolution : in memory of V. Gordon Childe / Bernard Wailes, editor.

Publication

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Childe, V. Gordon (Vere Gordon), 1892-1957.
• Wailes, Bernard.

Description

xii, 239 pages : illustrations, maps; 29 cm.

Series Statement

• University Museum monograph ; 93
• University Museum symposium series ; v. 6

Uniform Title

• University Museum monograph ; 93.
• University Museum symposium series ; v. 6.

Subject

• Childe, V. Gordon 1892-1957
• Childe, V. Gordon 1892-1957
• Childe, Vere Gordon 1892-1957
• Childe, Vere Gordon
• Prehistoric peoples
• Civilization, Ancient
• History, Ancient
• Archaeology
• Material culture
• Social evolution
• Archaeology
• Cultural Evolution
• archaeology
• material culture (discipline)
• Archäologie
• Handwerk
• Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Sociale evolutie
• Specialisatie
• Handwerk
• Prehistorie
• Theorieën
• Antiquities, Prehistoric
• Civilisation antique
• Évolution sociale
• Commerce préhistorique

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

V. Gordon Childe and the relations of production / Bernard Wailes -- Gordon Childe and the socioeconomic position of craft specialists in early Mesopotamia / Richard L. Zettler -- Producers, patrons, and prestige : craft specialists and emergent elites in Mesopotamia from 5500-3100 B.C. / Gil J. Stein -- Childe and "the barbarians" : a reconsideration / Philip L. Kohl -- G. Childe's world system and the daggers of the early Bronze Age / David W. Anthony -- Craft specialization in late prehistoric Mediterranean Europe / Antonio Gilman -- "Inventiveness and ingenuity"? craft specialization, metallurgy, and the Westmediterranean Bronze Age / Robert Chapman -- Location, organization, and specialization of craft production in late prehistoric Central Europe / Peter S. Wells -- The wool trade and the rise of urbanism in middle Saxon England / Pam J. Crabtree -- Death of a salesman : Childe's itinerant craftsman in the light of present knowledge of late prehistoric European craft production / D. Blair Gibson -- Contexts of specialization : V. Gordon Childe and social evolution / Rita P. Wright -- Craft production and social evolution during the Longshan period of Northern China / Anne P. Underhill -- From community craft to regional specialization : intensification of copper production in pre-state Thailand / Joyce C. White and Vincent C. Pigott -- Metals, specialization, and development in early eastern and southern Asia / Bennet Bronson -- Craft specialization and Olmec civilization / John E. Clark -- Craft specialization and social change along the southern Gulf Coast of Mexico / Philip J. Arnold -- Craft production and mobilization strategies in the Inka Empire / Cathy L. Costin -- Postscript : the continuing interest in V. Gordon Childe / Jeremy A. Sabloff -- But Gordon, where are the people? some comments on the topic of craft specialization and social evolution / Ruth Tringham.

ISBN

• 092417143X
• 9780924171437

LCCN

96025269

OCLC

• ocm34958745
• 34958745
• SCSB-2108600

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library