Innovation and technological change in the archaeological record : conceptual design in Mediterranean maritime technology from the archaic to late antiquity
This thesis argues for an empirical approach to the study of innovation. Innovation has traditionally been approached as qualitative and therefore not identifiable in the archaeological record. The author uses engineering’s principles of conceptual design to argue that fundamental technical concepts...
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University of Southampton
2017
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Online Access: | https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.720170 |