Technology of Early Settlement in Northern Europe

Transmission of Knowledge and Culture

by Kjel Knutsson, Uppsala UniversityHelena Knutsson, Stoneslab, Uppsala, SwedenJan Apel, University of LundHåkon Glørstad, University of Oslo (Volume Editors)

This volume explores technology and communication in the early settlements of Northern Europe. The chapters discuss case studies and present overviews from the early and middle Mesolithic of Northern Europe. Special emphasis is put on the spatial and temporal transmission of knowledge and culture. The volume focuses on themes such as the transmission of specialised knowledge, the generative transmission of knowledge, the understanding of technology as somatic or incorporated culture in human society and the role of pedagogies and teaching in cultural sustainment and transformation. Other contributions discuss the relation between demography and technological developments, as well as the natural and cultural context for the transmission of culture. The understanding of the transmission of technology is closely interrelated to the nature and efficiency of social networks of contact and their social and physical framework.

The volume provides new answers to one of the fundamental issues of our time – how to understand and cope with radical changes.

ISBN (Hardback) 9781781795163
Price (Hardback) £100.00 / $135.00
ISBN (eBook) 9781781796047
Price (eBook) Individual £100.00 / $135.00
Institutional £100.00 / $135.00
Publication 30/04/2018
Pages 330
Size 246 x 189mm
Readership scholars
Illustration 94 figures

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  • isbn
    9781781795163 (Hardback)
    9781781796047 (eBook)
  • publisher
    Equinox Publishing Ltd.
  • publisher place
    Sheffield (U.K.)
  • series number
    2
  • series title
    The Early Settlement of Northern Europe
  • doi