标题：TECHNOLOGY, SOCIETY, AND ECONOMY IN THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN WORLDSaturday, April 6, 2013Bagnani Hall, Traill College, Trent University310 London St , Peterborough, Ontario
摘要：The technological development of ancient people has been a concern of archaeologists, historians, and philologistssince the beginning of modern scholarship. Nevertheless, the perception of ancient technology studies has remainedone of a largely specialized field associated with the painstaking classification of artifacts and analysis of productionprocesses. This perception has begun to change dramatically in the last twenty years as the study of technology has expanded in new directions. Drawing heavily on developments in Science and Technology Studies, scholars havecome to realize that the study of technology is first and foremost the study of people. A tool or device is a meaninglessobject without a user and complex human behaviours lie behind the invention, adoption, use, and abandonment ofparticular technologies — technology is socially-constructed and historically contingent.
