Tracing Prehistoric Social Networks through Technology

<p>This volume investigates smaller and larger networks of contacts within and across the Aegean and nearby regions covering periods from the Neolithic until Classical times (6000–323 BC). It explores the world of technologies crafts and archaeological 'left-overs' in order to place social and technological networks in their larger economic and political contexts. By investigating ways of production transport/distribution and consumption this book covers a chronologically large period in order to expand our understanding of wider cultural developments inside the geographical boundaries of the Aegean and its regions of contact in the east Mediterranean. </p><p>This book brings together scholars’ expertise in a variety of different fields ranging from historical archaeology (using textual evidence) archaeometry geoarchaeology experimental work archaeobotany and archaeozoology. Chapters in this volume study and contextualize archaeological remains and explore networks of crafts-people craft traditions or people who employed various technologies to survive. Central questions in this context are how and why traditions techniques and technologies change or remain stable or where and why cross-cultural boundaries developed and disintegrated. </p>