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La spécialisation des productions et les spécialistes: Une introduction

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With the emergence of manufacturing based economies, specialised productions take on new dimensions during the Neolithic. Production networks progressively develop during the Neolithic and the Metal Ages and can be characterised according to their scale, how they are organised, the status of producers and the intensification of the trade of manufactured goods. This results on the one hand in mass production and on the other in the creation of highly technical objects on demand within a complex economic system of consumption and exchange. This is not seen as a linear progression but as a diversification of productions, products and know-how, the chronological and social contextualisation of which are fundamental to their comprehension. The twelve papers assembled here in the proceedings of the session n° XXXIV-2 of the UISPP congress aim to tackle the subject of specialisation through various studies on specialised productions, manufactured goods and the status of craft workers.