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SKELETAL EVIDENCE FOR ELITE CRAFT SPECIALIZATION AMONG THE TERMINAL CLASSIC MAYA OF COPÁN, HONDURAS
… robusticity to indicate if these people were craft specialists. According to archaeological evidence, crafting activity at this location included both sacred and secular traditions. Workshop burials were compared with other burials from 9N-8 in order to determine if differing degrees of …
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Parowan Pottery and Fremont Complexity: Late Formative Ceramic Production and Exchange
… and that production was organized as community craft specialization, though I acknowledge that more research on this topic is ultimately required.
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Comb-making in medieval Novgard (950-1450). An industry in transition
… comb types lie such important spheres as craft specialization, trade, the movement of commodities and shifts of fashion, reflecting the changing demands of the consumer's market. The comb study draws out some fundamental changesin the comb repertoire and the comb-making industry in its …
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The Social Dynamics of Early Helladic Sealing Practices: Seal Use and Social Change in Early Bronze Age Greece
… exchanges, monumental architecture, and craft specialization. Seals and sealings are a particularly sensitive proxy for complexity because of their economic and political potential as administrative devices, a pre-literate form of record keeping. Although Mycenaean elites used seals to …
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Conditions of the Oral Cavity in Early Bronze Age Anatolia: Reconstruction of Dietary Behavior, Biological Impact, and Social Structure
… urbanization, agricultural intensification, craft specialization in metallurgy, and socioeconomic shifts. This combination of sociocultural and sociopolitical changes distinguishes the EBA from the preceding Neolithic and Chalcolithic. Most research supporting these extensive changes stems …
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Sorting out ceramics : correlating change in the technology of ceramic production with the chronology of 18th and early 19th century western BaTswana towns
… examined in the broader context of aggregation. Craft specialization and standardization might be one solution for providing for the needs of a large population. There are underpinning technological, social, political, economic, environmental and ideological factors that must be considered in …