Tracing Prehistoric Social Networks through Technology
Title | Tracing Prehistoric Social Networks through Technology PDF eBook |
Author | Ann Brysbaert |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 303 |
Release | 2014-05-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1136582452 |
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. 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.
Social Networks in the History of Innovation and Invention
Title | Social Networks in the History of Innovation and Invention PDF eBook |
Author | Francis C. Moon |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | 206 |
Release | 2013-11-19 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 9400775288 |
This book integrates history of science and technology with modern social network theory. Using examples from the history of machines, as well as case studies from wireless, radio and chaos theory, the author challenges the genius model of invention. Network analysis concepts are presented to demonstrate the societal nature of invention in areas such as steam power, internal combustion engines, early aviation, air conditioning and more. Using modern measures of network theory, the author demonstrates that the social networks of invention from the 19th and early 20th centuries have similar characteristics to modern 21st C networks such as the World Wide Web. The book provides evidence that exponential growth in technical innovation is linked to the growth of historical innovation networks.
Social Networks in the Distant Past
Title | Social Networks in the Distant Past PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara J. Mills |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 24 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Indians of North America |
ISBN |
Inhuman Networks
Title | Inhuman Networks PDF eBook |
Author | Grant Bollmer |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | 291 |
Release | 2016-08-11 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 150131615X |
"Examines how "the human" is produced in relation to technological changes, foregrounding the necessity of theoretical and archaeological perspectives for understanding contemporary media culture"--
Evolution of Social Networks
Title | Evolution of Social Networks PDF eBook |
Author | Frans N. Stokman |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | |
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Mining and Analyzing Social Networks
Title | Mining and Analyzing Social Networks PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 196 |
Release | 2011-04-11 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9783642134234 |
Social Networks and Privacy
Title | Social Networks and Privacy PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 28 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9789175955711 |