Technology Transfer (Other Keyword)

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Dorset-Thule Succession in Arctic North American: Assessing Claims for Culture Contact (1993)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert W. Park.

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The Glass of New Spain: Exploring Early Modern Networks through Material Culture (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Karime Castillo Cardenas.

The arrival of glass in the Americas and its development as a technology in New Spain needs to be understood within the complex global networks that begin to develop during the early modern period as part of trans-oceanic trade. During this time, people, objects, materials, technologies, and ideas traveled around the world like never before. These movements and encounters had a direct impact on craft production as well as in the consumer demands of colonial societies. Understanding material...


Technology transfer, Variability, and Adaptation of Glass Production in Colonial Mexico: Preliminary Results from a Local and Global Perspective (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Karime Castillo-Cardenas.

Glass arrived in the Americas as a fully developed technology and glass workshops appeared in New Spain soon after the establishment of the colonial regime. Little is known about the way this technology was adapted to the local resources and conditions, the variety of products made, and how this technology changed and assimilated within the viceregal world and the Spanish Empire at large. Through a multiscalar and multidisciplinary approach incorporating archaeology, history, ethnography and...