Archaeology and apprenticeship : body knowledge, identity, and communities of practice / Willeke Wendrich -- Apprenticeship and the confirmation of social boundaries / Hélène Wallaert -- Social contexts of learning and individual motor performance / John L. Creese -- Knowledge transfer : the craftmen's abstraction / Harald Bentz Høgseth -- Placing ideas in the land : practical and ritual training among the Australian Aborigines / Simon Holdaway and Harry Allen -- Apprentice to the environment : hunter-gatherers and landscape learning / Marcy Rockman -- Lithic raw material availability and Palaeo-Eskimo novice flintknapping / S. Brooke Milne -- Apprenticeship and figured ostraca from the ancient Egyptian village of Deir el-Medina / Kathlyn M. Cooney -- Craft apprenticeship in ancient Greece : reaching beyond the masters / Eleni Hasaki -- Apprenticeship and learning from the ancestors : the case of ancient Urkesh / Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati -- Types of learning in apprenticeship / Heather M.-L. Miller -- Writing craftsmanship? : vocabularies and notation systems in the transmission of craft knowledge / Lise Bender Jørgensen -- Recognizing knowledge transfer in the archaeological record / Willeke Wendrich
Summary
The chapters in this volume demonstrate how archaeology can benefit greatly from the understanding of the social dimensions of knowledge transfer. This book also examines apprenticeship in archaeology against a backdrop of sociological and cognitive psychology literature, to enrich the understanding of the relationship between material remains and enculturation. Each of the authors in this collection looks specifically at how material remains can reveal several specific aspects of ancient cultures: What is the human potential for learning? How do people learn? Who is teaching? Why are they learning? What are the results of such learning? And how do we recognize knowledge transfer in the archaeological record?
