European metals in native hands : rethinking the dynamics of technological change, 1640-1683 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ehrhardt, Kathleen L., 1948-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, [2005]
Subjects:	Technological innovations > Mississippi River Valley. Copper implements > Europe > History. Indian copperwork > Mississippi River Valley. Exports > Europe > History > 17th century. Imports > Mississippi River Valley > History > 17th century. Illinois Indians > Commerce. Illinois Indians > Industries. Illinois Indians > First contact with Europeans. Mississippi River Valley > History > To 1803. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Native technologies, European contact, and the processes and meanings of material change
Setting aside the "standard view" : revealing "style" and change in technological systems
Recovering Illinois copper-base metalworking style : the analytical program
Indigenous copper working in the midcontinent : situating Illinois copper-base metal use in late protohistory
Lost sheep-- in the jaws of the wolf : the mid-seventeenth-century Illinois in ethnohistorical and archaeological perspective
From kettle sheet to ornament : artifact forms, production, and use
Finding "style" beneath the surface : artifact composition and manufacturing history
Illinois metalworking style in contexts of social action and technological change.