Grasping Technology, Assessing Craft. Developing a Research Method for the Study of Craft-Tradition

When archaeologists claim to study social and cultural structures and phenomena, patterns of social engagement and human interaction in general, the study is always based on the material and culture of the past. It is understood that these objects were created and crafted by people of the past, but the weight of this is not always recognized: the fact that no matter what phenomenon we might focus on, we are always studying the material expression of past manufacture and production. The acknowled