- Titel
- On the nature of ceramics technology: from Empedocles to Dawkins
- Zitierfähige Url:
- https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:105-qucosa2-1035713
- Quellenangabe
- Archaeometry
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Jahrgang: 67
Heft: 1
Seiten: 55-71
ISSN: 1475-4754 - Erstveröffentlichung
- 2024
- Abstract (EN)
- This contribution discusses salient aspects of the development of ceramics technology from its invention to the present, and the role ceramics have played during the cultural development and technological progress of ancient and modern societies. The conjecture is being advanced that the transformation of ceramic production modes from holistic, that is, individualistic processes to prescriptive, that is, cooperative industrially determined technologies had a profound and lasting impact on the social, economic, and cultural fabric of all societies. In addition, the chaotic and thus, nondeterministic interaction of ceramic technology and society, and the transfer of information among potters will be described in terms of the concept of strange attractors as well as sets of self-normalizing ‘memes’ (ideas) in a Lamarckian and/or Darwinian mode. Such specific ideas drive cultural and, by inference, technological evolution of societies.
- Andere Ausgabe
- On the nature of ceramics technology: from Empedocles to Dawkins
DOI: 10.1111/arcm.12997 - Freie Schlagwörter (DE)
- Keramik, Herstellung, Technologie, Gesellschaft, Evolution
- Freie Schlagwörter (EN)
- ceramic ecology, ceramics, holistic and prescriptive technologies, materials development, memes, strange attractors, technology transfer
- Klassifikation (DDC)
- 930
- Normschlagwörter (GND)
- Keramik
- Herstellung
- Technologie
- Gesellschaft
- Evolution
- Verlag
- Wiley, Oxford
- Sonstige beteiligte Institution
- Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg
- Version / Begutachtungsstatus
- publizierte Version / Verlagsversion
- URN Qucosa
- urn:nbn:de:bsz:105-qucosa2-1035713
- Veröffentlichungsdatum Qucosa
- 31.03.2026
- Dokumenttyp
- Artikel
- Sprache des Dokumentes
- Englisch
- Lizenz / Rechtehinweis
CC BY 4.0