The shift from stone to metal is considered as one of the main technological changes in the history of the mankind. In the Southern Levant, although the first metal objects appeared during the Chalcolithic, flint tools continued to be produced through the Bronze Age and the beginning of the Iron Age. The coexistence of these technologies for more than three millennia represents a complex phenomenon, which can be analysed from different perspectives recognizing the various factors in the history of technological change: 1. The specific evolutionary path of the objects, technologies and techniques and 2. The socio-historical contingencies which explain the success or failure of a technique. The comparison between the chipped-stone tool productions and their contemporaneous metal objects allows us to observe the dynamics which explain the disappearance of flint industries in terms of their relationship with the development of metallurgy
The decline and disappearance of chipped-stone tools: A case-study from the Southern Levant / Manclossi, F. - 6:(2020), pp. 87-101. (Intervento presentato al convegno UISPP Congress tenutosi a Burgos).
The decline and disappearance of chipped-stone tools: A case-study from the Southern Levant
Manclossi F
2020
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The shift from stone to metal is considered as one of the main technological changes in the history of the mankind. In the Southern Levant, although the first metal objects appeared during the Chalcolithic, flint tools continued to be produced through the Bronze Age and the beginning of the Iron Age. The coexistence of these technologies for more than three millennia represents a complex phenomenon, which can be analysed from different perspectives recognizing the various factors in the history of technological change: 1. The specific evolutionary path of the objects, technologies and techniques and 2. The socio-historical contingencies which explain the success or failure of a technique. The comparison between the chipped-stone tool productions and their contemporaneous metal objects allows us to observe the dynamics which explain the disappearance of flint industries in terms of their relationship with the development of metallurgyFile | Dimensione | Formato | |
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