This article explores the relationship between the making of things and the making of people
at the Bronze Age tell at Százhalombatta, Hungary. Focusing on potters and potting, we …

This paper argues that if we are to fully appreciate the nature of collective remembrance we
need to acknowledge the active participation of the material world in eliciting remembrance …

Bronze Age metalwork deposition fascinates me. It is a collective practice that spanned
Europe whereby people gathered large quantities of material, often in good condition, and …

This paper studies social, material, and technological variation in Paleolithic “art” production.
The approach builds on the premise that studying material choices and modification …

This paper explores how technology can be used to discern socio-cultural variations and
how technological analyses can contribute to a better understanding of the origins and …

Embodied, sensual, engagements between people, earthly elements, and celestial bodies
during focused, periodic acts of ritual construction and artifact deposition in the southwestern …

The results of an analysis of pigments used in slips and designs deployed in ceramic
assemblages recovered from archaeological sites located in different environments …

In a densely packed, streetless village such as Neolithic Çatalhöyük in central Anatolia, it is
argued in this article that variations in mudbrick recipes were used to mark social identity …

This article reflects on the place of technology in the ethnography of global manufacturing
and puts relationships with tools and machines back into debates about the production of …

This book presents the reader with 10 chapters about people, technologies and social
networks. The geographical, chronological and methodological approaches employed in all …