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Technology. J. RASMUS BRANDT & LARS KARLSSON Lars Karlsson (born January 7, 1948) is a former Swedish handball player who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics.In 1972 he was part of the Swedish team which finished seventh in the Olympic tournament. He played four matches. (ed.). From huts tohouses--transformations of ancient societies: proceedings of aninternational seminar organized by the Norwegian & SwedishInstitutes in Rome, 21-24 September 1997 (Skrifter Utgivna av SvenskaInstitutet i Rom 4[degrees] 56/Acta ad Archaeologiam et Artium HistoriamPertinentia XIII). 461 pages, 417 figures, 20 tables. 2001. Jonsered:Paul Astrom; 91-7042-163-3 (ISSN ISSNabbr.International Standard Serial Number 0081-993X & 0065-0900) paperbackKr700 & US$66.70. PIERRE BRIANT Pierre Briant (born September 30, 1940 in Angers) is a French Iranologist, Professor of History and Civilisation of the Achaemenid World and the Empire of Alexander the Great at the Coll��ge de France (1999 onwards), Doctor Honoris Causa at the University of Chicago, and founder of (ed.). Irrigation irrigation,in agriculture, artificial watering of the land. Although used chiefly in regions with annual rainfall of less than 20 in. (51 cm), it is also used in wetter areas to grow certain crops, e.g., rice. et drainage dans l'Antiquite:qanats et canalisations souterraines en Iran, en Egypte et enGrece--seminaire tenu au College de France (Persika 2). 190 pages, 68figures, 1 table. 2001. Paris: Thotm; 2-914531-01-X paperback E27. MARILYN PALMER & PETER NEAVERSON (ed.). From industrialrevolution to consumer revolution: international perspectives on thearchaeology of industrialisation. 129 pages, 47 figures, 3 tables. 2001.N.p.: Association for Industrial Archaeology The Association for Industrial Archaeology is a body supporting the excavation, reporting and preservation of the physical remains of the Industrial Revolution in the United Kingdom. The AIA has its offices at the University of Leicester and is currently chaired by Prof. ; 0-1-902653-63-7 paperback12.50 [pounds sterling]. Messrs BRANDT & KARLSSON present 14 papers on development ofbuilding, six on the functions of buildings, 11 on techniques ofbuilding, and a dozen on the social anthropology, aspects of ancienttechnology, and field survey technique, plus a study (first published in1932) on shepherds' huts around Rome. Ranging from recent historyto the Mesolithic, most of the papers are about the centralMediterranean but there are also one on Turkey and eight on Scandinavia.They amount to a mass of well-illustrated detail on structures, largeand small, of various materials. Most are in English but eight are inItalian, and a couple in French or German. Prof. BRIANT introduces eight detailed and scholarly papers onliterary and archaeological evidence for ancient water management in theeastern Mediterranean, Near East and Oman. The first three amount to astate of the art review for the Classical period in Greece and thewestern Hellenistic world. Evidence for underground supply is reviewedfor Egypt, Oman and Armenia--M. Salvini denying that it existed in thelatter. PALMER & NEAVERSON present the proceedings of the congress, in2000, of the International Committee for the Conservation of theIndustrial Heritage. The core comprises seven papers on the IndustrialRevolution in Europe, including PALMER & NEAVERSON on housingassociated with the textile industry; and six on `Mass production andconsumerism, 1850-2000', including studies of accommodation forshoemaking in England (A. Menuge), of attempts to introduce blastfurnaces to India, and of domestic goods, including plastic, in Norwayand Canada. Abstracts are provided in French. MICHAEL BRIAN SCHIFFER (ed.). Anthropological perspectives ontechnology (Amerind Foundation The Amerind Foundation is a private, membership supported, nonprofit ethnological, anthropological, archaeological museum and research facility dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of Native American cultures and their histories. New World Studies 5). xiv+242 pages, 25figures, 7 tables. 2001. Albuquerque (NM): University of New MexicoPress The University of New Mexico Press, founded in 1929, is a university press that is part of the University of New Mexico. External linkUniversity of New Mexico Press ; 0-8263-2369-3 hardback $49.95. M.B. SCHIFFER proclaims `a new anthropology' of `the makingand using of things and how those processes articulate with all else ...in societies' (p. 12). T. Ingold and C.M. Keller contribute on `theanthropology of skill' (Ingold), with B. Pfaffenberger on how doingmakes meaning, W.H. Walker on ritual, and M.-A. Dobres on `agency and... embodiment' (cf. pp. 593-4, below). R.R. Wilk muses about`needs' as `individual motives matched by socially recognizedstandards' (p. 119). P. Bleed thinks about conceptual and bodilyconstraints on the design of hand tools, and D. Kingery about design andperformance. There is a numbing essay about constraints on change, J.M.Skibo & SCHIFFER write about `artifact variability and change',and the latter rounds the collection off with some ideas on how toexplain `long-term ... change'. There is fair attention to theconceptual requirements of archaeology but, along with DrSCHIFFER's conclusions, R. Gould's contribution on shippingstands out as refreshingly empirical. See too PARSONS in `... Mesoamerica' (and ISLER in`Egypt'), below.