02246    a2200301   4500001001100000005001700011008004100028020001800069037003600087040000700123041000800130072001500138072001500153072001500168072001400183072001300197072001300210072001400223072002100237072001900258100002000277245010800297250000600405260003200411300001000443520147600453999001501929135176580920250317111555.0250312042017GB        65           eng    a9781351765800  bTaylor & FranciscGBP 46.99fBB  a01  aeng7 aNKA2thema7 aNKX2thema7 aNKD2thema7 a3B2bisac7 aHDA2bic7 aHDW2bic7 aHDDA2bic7 aSOC0030002bisac7 a930.1562bisac1 aMaikel Kuijpers10aArchaeology of SkillbMetalworking Skill and Material Specialization in Early Bronze Age Central Europe  a1  aOxfordbRoutledgec20170803  a334 p  bMaterial is the mother of innovation and it is through skill that innovations are brought about. This core thesis that is developed in this book identifies skill as the linchpin of – and missing link between – studies on craft, creativity, innovation, and material culture. Through a detailed study of early bronze age axes the question is tackled of what it involves to be skilled, providing an evidence based argument about levels of skill. The unique contribution of this work is that it lays out a theoretical framework and methodology through which an empirical analysis of skill is achievable. A specific chaîne opératoire for metal axes is used that compares not only what techniques were used, but also how they were applied. A large corpus of axes is compared in terms of what skills and attention were given at the different stages of their production. The ideas developed in this book are of interest to the emerging trend of ‘material thinking’ in the human and social sciences. At the same time, it looks towards and augments the development in craft-studies, recognising the many different aspects of craft in contemporary and past societies, and the particular relationship that craftspeople have with their material. Drawing together these two distinct fields of research will stimulate (re)thinking of how to integrate production with discussions of other aspects of object biographies, and how we link arguments about value to social models.  c3625d3625