Technological Transmission between Different Levels of Specialization in Proto-historic NE Asia

Summary

This is an abstract from the "New Evidence, Methods, Theories, and Challenges to Understanding Prehistoric Economies in Korea" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The Proto-historic period (300 B.C. - A.D. 300) in Northeast Asia was a critical time when technological innovations and the fundamental changes of craft-specialization in the ceramic production occurred. From the early 3rd century B.C., ancient Chinese states of Yan, Qin, and Han expanded their influence over Manchuria and the northwestern part of the Korean Peninsula and established sporadic outposts into indigenous territory. The interaction spaces between the Chinese outposts and the surrounding indigenous communities were very important in explaining the transmissions and innovation of ceramic producing technology. This study explores cultural transmission of a bundle of complex technological behaviors from pottery craftspeople who had embodied skills for forming techniques of various standardized ceramic vessels to native practitioners working within a less-specialized context.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)   •
• New Evidence, Methods, Theories, and Challenges to Understanding Prehistoric Economies in Korea

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Abstract Id(s): 25439