Techno-logic & Technology av Eric Boeda

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<P><EM>Techno-logic & Technology</EM> is an ambitious effort to develop a new framework for studying the development of stone tool technology, with the goal of integrating humanity¿s earliest and longest-lasting technology into a comprehensive questioning of the interaction between humanity and the material world. </P><P>Michael Chazan provides a translation of ¿ic Bo¿''s authoritative work <EM>Techno-logique and Technologie</EM>, which draws on the latter''s career of research on stone tool assemblages from archaeological sites in Europe, the Middle East, China, and South America, together with a theoretical apparatus influenced by the work of Gilbert Simondon. This book presents a major challenge to all archaeologists studying ancient technology to reconsider how they think about artifacts and how to approach the question of progress through time in human technology. Lithic analysis is a highly empirical field of study that rarely has an impact on issues of broad theoretical inte