Dobres, Marcia-Anne. 2000. Technology and Social Agency: Outlining a Practice Framework for Archaeology. Malden: Blackwell. An interdisciplinary approach to understanding ancient technology through human agency.
Hegmon, Michelle. 1992. Archaeological Research on Style. Annual Review of Anthropology 21:517-536. Reviews trends in research on style, including technological style, as described by Lechtman and then Lemonnier.
Kingery, W. D., ed. 1985. Technology and Style. Ceramics and Civilization vol. II. Columbus: The American Ceramic Society. Presents a number of case studies that exhibit the scientific capabilities of applying technological style to the past. Style and technology are examined separately and as parts of a functioning, whole system.
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Lechtman, Heather. 1975. Style in Technology – Some Early Thoughts. In Lechtman and Merrill 1975, 3-20. Outlines Lechtman’s ideas on what technological style should be and how archaeologists should go about including it in their theoretical frameworks. Is the introduction to the volume of papers from the 1975 American Ethnological Society meeting, an early instance of the application of technological style.
van der Leeuw, Sander E., and Alison C. Pritchard, eds. 1984. The Many Dimensions of Pottery: Ceramics in archaeology and anthropology. Amsterdam: Universiteit van Amsterdam. 1982 conference proceedings that highlight advances in pottery analysis since 1962, leading up to the development of the study of technological style in various forms.
van der Leeuw, Sander E., and Robin Torrence, eds. 1989. What’s New? A closer look at the process of innovation. London: Unwin Hyman. Papers from the 1986 World Archaeological Congress that examine the implications of change in technology, with a lean toward agency theory.
Lemonnier, Pierre, ed. 1993. Technological Choices: Transformation in material cultures since the Neolithic. New York: Routledge. Criticizes what scholars have thus far done to interpret the social practice of technology, and specifically examines technological choices (to reject or adapt technological styles of other societies) with a number of case studies from various perspectives.
Lemonnier, Pierre. 1992. Elements for an Anthropology of Technology. Anthropological Papers, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Focuses on recording operational sequences and examining differences between ethnographic and archaeological technologies. Discusses current state of anthropology of technology and criticizes symbolic anthropology.
Pfaffenberger, Bryan. 1988. Fetishised Objects and Humanised Nature: Towards an Anthropology of Technology. Man, New Series 23(2):236-252. Argues that not enough time has been spent on social anthropology of technology and sees technology as a “total social phenomenon.”
Renfrew, Colin, and Ezra B. W. Zubrow, eds. 1994. The ancient mind: Elements of cognitive archaeology. New Directions in Archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University. Proceedings from a 1990 conference at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research that outlines ways in which cognitive archaeology can apply to prehistoric people. This includes the cognition of technology.
Stark, Miriam T., ed. 1998. The Archaeology of Social Boundaries. Washington: Smithsonian. Outlines the history of technological style and presents case studies that apply the study. Argues that examination of spatial patterning in style and views of cognition and technological choice need to be combined to be most useful.
Steinberg, Arthur. 1975. Technology and Culture: Technological Styles in the Bronzes of Shang China, Phrygia and Urnfield Central Europe. In Lechtman and Merrill 1975, 53-86. An early case study of and treatise on technological style. Steinberg outlines the principal concern of those looking at technological style and describes how it fits into a systems model.
