The Reality of Artifacts : An Archaeological Perspective
The Reality of Artifacts- Front Cover -- The Reality of Artifacts -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: defining artifacts -- Extending status functions -- Hybridity, relics, and resonances -- Skulls, reliquaries, and hybridi...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Milton : Routledge,
2018
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| Schlagworte: | Archaeology Antiquities Material culture |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (159 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | The Reality of Artifacts- Front Cover -- The Reality of Artifacts -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: defining artifacts -- Extending status functions -- Hybridity, relics, and resonances -- Skulls, reliquaries, and hybridity -- The tempo of change -- Overview -- Memories and associations -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 1: It is all in the mind -- Categorizing artifacts, mental representations, and preferences -- Concepts, trajectories, and the chaîne opératoire -- Defining Levallois -- Reconsidering form and concept -- Extended mind -- Action and thought -- Vision, gaze, and attention -- Eye movements and everyday activities -- Spatial models and practice in making artifacts -- Tracking skill and knowledge back in time -- Memory and the self -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: Artifacts and the body -- The levels of sensory experience -- The integument: the organ of touch -- Touch and the human hand -- The nature of haptic input -- Blurring the boundary: the interior self and the external world -- Clay and flint: the body and material in the process of manufacture -- The Acheulean: a gradual extension -- Spears and extending beyond the limitations of stone -- Sending the artifact into the world: the development of projectiles -- Throwing and the mental body representation -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: Making space for the invisible -- Invisibles in human evolution -- Breaking nuts and breaking stones -- The earliest stone tools -- Sprite, blood, coffee, and tears -- Fire and the further engagement with the invisible -- Making the intangible tangible -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: Wrapping the surface, rethinking art -- Something from nothing -- Traps redux -- At the back of the cave and deep in the hole -- Assemblage -- Entrapping matter -- Making form Skins, warp, and weft -- Wrapping light -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5: The autonomy of objects -- Techno-teleology -- The time of the machines -- Growing machines -- A pause for the monumental -- The revolt of the artifacts -- Note -- References -- Epilogue: towards an ecology with objects -- References -- Index |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (159 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781315439273 1315439271 9781138217805 1138217808 |