Who Has an Art, Has Everywhere a Part: Craft Production, Specialization, and Prestige in Praehistoric Societies

Craft specialization means that certain tasks and/or activities are performed exclusively by members of a community, either as their main/basic activity, or parallel to other activities. The emergence is often associated complex societies, more precisely, its presence presupposes social stratification and negated in non-stratified societies. However, the organization production various goods development much complex, cannot be simply characterized terms presence/absence, since there modes levels specialization. Therefore, over last decades need recognized for new revised theoretical framework. Some authors suggest definitions organization, specifically emphasizing cultural aspects (along with purely economic ones) influence technological choices. Power prestige status not solely linked control resources larger amount material goods, but also character – objects an important factor crafts, craft specialization, emergence/increase inequality. In praehistory, symbolic importance value were ascribed technologies objects, only on grounds exotic raw highly valued qualities (durability object, well non-utilitarian traits, such colour), due effort skill applied production. Such secured reflected esteem individuals who made possessed them.