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Skilled Production and Social Reproduction – an introduction to the subject
skill to make use of this raw material. We know from recent lithic use wear
analyses that both the tools made, and those used, show the same variation
cial and cultural context in which the quartz material was situated may have
old dichotomy between the ritual and the mundane, the technical and the
conceptual, in dealing with quartz assemblages. This is of course as true for
an overt signal of technical complexity, this approach might be obstructive
to the more important issue of its cultural meaning.
drews discusses the scale and organization of the Classic period Teotihua
can obsidian blade production. By studying skill through surface collections
from production sites, Andrews is able to infer that the obsidian craftsmen
how continuum. Sørensen contributes to the discussion of the differences
between typologies based on formal or metrical attributes, and technologi
cal attributes on the other hand; the formal and metrical typologies are not
suited to form a basis for answering the questions that archaeologists are
interested in today. To illustrate his point, Sørensen introduces a technologi
different blade traditions within the early Mesolithic Maglemosian tradition
in Denmark.
From Experience to Interpretation
In this section of the book, archaeological case studies involving discussions
on how lithic technology and skill is related to other social phenomena are
presented.
liths in the Mesolithic has been placed in the “functional” sphere of inquiry,
and as such has not encouraged interest in the discussion of how cultures
reproduce themselves through socialisation and the transmission of cultural
tures” within the cultural historical tradition and a measure of environmen
tal and functional change by processual archaeologists, Finlay discusses the
role of microlithic production in the construction and negotiation of identi
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