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V. Gordon Childe was the first scholar to attempt a broad and sustained socioeconomic analysis of the archaeology of the ancient world in terms that, today, could be called explanatory. To most, he was remembered only as a diligent synthesizer whose whole interpretation collapsed when its chronology was demolished. There was little recognition of his insistence that the emergence of craft specialists, and their very variable roles in the relations of production, were crucial to an understanding of social evolution. The interrelationship between sociopolitical complexity and craft production is a critical one, so critical that one might ask, just how complex would any society have become without craft specialization. This volume derives from the papers presented at a symposium at the American Anthropological Association meetings on the centenary of Childe's birth. Contributors to the volume include David W. Anthony, Philip J. Arnold III, Bennet Bronson, Robert Chapman, John E. Clark, Cathy L. Costin, Pam J. Crabtree, Philip L. Kohl, D. Blair Gibson, Antonio Gilman, Vincent C. Piggott, Jeremy A. Sabloff, Gil J. Stein, Ruth Tringham, Anne P. Underhill, Bernard Wailes, Peter S. Wells, Joyce C. White, Rita P. Wright, and Richard L. Zettler. University Museum Monograph 93, University Museum Symposium Series Volume VI

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Book category Books in English Humanities Archaeology Archaeological theory

• Full title: Craft Specialization and Social Evolution
• Author: Bernard Wailes
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9780924171437
• ISBN: 092417143X
• ID: 01282311
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Weight: 894 g
• Dimensions: 225 × 291 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. January 1996

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