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:
Demonstrates how archaeology can benefit from the understanding of the social dimensions of knowledge transfer. Also examines apprenticeship in archaeology against a backdrop of sociological and cognitive psychology literature