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- Title
Potter's Wheel in the Iron Age in Central Europe: Process or Product Innovation?
- Authors
Thér, Richard; Mangel, Tomáš; Gregor, Miloš
- Abstract
The use of a rotational device for forming ceramic objects represents a fundamental innovation in pottery technology. This work addresses aspects of the transmission of this technological innovation on the basis of technological and provenance analysis of Iron Age pottery in a selected region of Eastern Bohemia. The possible trajectories of the innovative process are approximated specifically through the polarities between product and process innovation and transmission of cultural traits in open and closed learning networks. Apart from standard methods of petrographic and geochemical analysis, this analysis employs innovative methodology for identification of pottery-forming techniques. The results indicate the effects of various mechanisms of cultural transmission which shaped the evolution of techniques in the Iron Age society. The technological changes can be explained by shifting accents on product and process performance characteristics in changing selective environments.
- Subjects
EUROPE; POTTERS' wheels; POTTERY craft; IRON Age; TECHNOLOGICAL innovations; CULTURAL transmission
- Publication
Journal of Archaeological Method & Theory, 2017, Vol 24, Issue 4, p1256
- ISSN
1072-5369
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10816-016-9312-0