Technology as Human Social Tradition: Cultural Transmission Among Hunter-Gatherers Volume 7

by Peter Jordan

Book Overview

Technology as Human Social Tradition outlines a novel approach to studying variability and cumulative change in human technology--prominent research themes in both archaeology and anthropology. Peter Jordan argues that human material culture is best understood as an expression of social tradition. In this approach, each artifact stands as an output of a distinctive operational sequence with specific choices made at each stage in its production...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520276930
• ISBN13: 9780520276932
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"