Creativity in the Bronze Age: Understanding Innovation in Pottery, Textile, and Metalwork Production - Hardcover

Bender Jørgensen, Lise; Sofaer, Joanna; Stig Sørensen, Marie Louise

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1108421369 ISBN 13: 9781108421362

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

This book explores the nature of creativity in a critical period of human history - the European Bronze Age - through developments in three key crafts - pottery, textiles, and metalwork. It will interest students and teachers of prehistory/archaeology, craft studies (especially textiles, metal, and pottery), as well as those interested in creativity.

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Reseña del editor:

Creativity is an integral part of human history, yet most studies focus on the modern era, leaving unresolved questions about the formative role that creativity has played in the past. This book explores the fundamental nature of creativity in the European Bronze Age. Considering developments in crafts that we take for granted today, such as pottery, textiles, and metalwork, the volume compares and contrasts various aspects of their development, from the construction of the materials themselves, through the production processes, to the design and effects deployed in finished objects. It explores how creativity is closely related to changes in material culture, how it directs responses to the new and unfamiliar, and how it has resulted in changes to familiar things and practices. Written by an international team of scholars, the case studies in this volume consider wider issues and provide detailed insights into creative solutions found in specific objects.

Biografía del autor:

Lise Bender Jørgensen is Professor Emerita of Archaeology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway. She is an internationally regarded expert in prehistoric textiles, with an extensive publication record which includes the monographs Forhistoriske Textiler i Skandinavien (Prehistoric Scandinavian Textiles) (1986) and North European Textiles until AD 1000 (1992).

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1108421369
• ISBN 13: 9781108421362
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 356