Describing cultural change and variability and inferring sociocultural dynamics about past people and communities may be among archaeology’s main goals as a field of practice. In this regard, the concept of skill has proved its usefulness to, time and again, expand the breath of archaeologists and lithic technologists’ analyses. It covers a wide range of applications, from apprenticeship, cognition, paleo-sociology, spatial organization. It is one of the main causes for material culture variability, up there with raw material constraints, design, technological organization or cultural norms. Yet, while skill has certainly been the focus of some research in the last decades, it remains quite peripheral, when considering how central the concept should be to technological inquiries. Whatever the reasons may be, this book, edited by Laurent Klaric and fully bilingual (French and English), aims at changing that, and argues for skill to become a central concern in lithic technology. Its chapters do so strongly and the end-result is a book that should become a reference for lithic technologists, whatever their research interests or schools of thought may be.

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书评：史前学徒：研究史前技术的学徒、专有技术和专业知识；L'apprenti préhistorique: Appréhender l'apprentissage, les savoir-faire et l'expertise à travers les productions technologies des soci

描述文化变迁和变异以及推断过去人和社区的社会文化动态可能是考古学作为实践领域的主要目标之一。在这方面，技能的概念一次又一次地证明了它的有用性，可以扩展考古学家和石器技术专家的分析。它涵盖了广泛的应用，从学徒、认知、古社会学、空间组织。它是物质文化变异的主要原因之一，与原材料限制、设计、技术组织或文化规范有关。然而，虽然在过去的几十年里，技能肯定是一些研究的重点，但在考虑到这个概念对技术研究的重要性时，它仍然是相当边缘的。不管是什么原因，这本书，由 Laurent Klaric 编辑，完全双语（法语和英语），旨在改变这一点，并主张技能成为石刻技术的核心问题。它的章节做得很好，最终结果是一本应该成为光刻技术专家参考的书，无论他们的研究兴趣或思想流派如何。