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Envisageant la production artisanale au sens le plus large (des bifaces à la frappe monétaire) et sur la très longue durée (du Paléolithique au Moyen Age), ce recueil regroupe des études s'intéressant aux origines de la spécialisation comme activité technique et économique. Sommaire : S. Milliken, The ghost of Childe and the question of craft specialization in the Palaeolithic ; K. Skourtopoulou, Technical behaviour and the identification of social patterning : a preliminary discussion of some new evidence from the Late Neolithic of Northern Greece ; L. Laporte, Ornament production centres on the French Atlantic coast during the Late Neolithic ; J. Regenye, Signs of specialization in a settlement group of the Lengyel culture ; D. Gheorghiu, Clay, twigs, threads and ritual : ceramic « industrial » decoration in the East European Neolithic and Chalcolithic ; S. Dipilato, N. Laneri, « Sequential slab construction » and other problems concerning hand-building techniques in Chalcolithic Iran : experimenting with mammographic x-ray images ; A. S. Dowd, Biface standardization accompanying organized chert qarrying efforts : an argument for intensifying lithic production ; K. Michelaki, Ceramic production among the Maros villagers of Bronze Age Hungary ; P. Boccuccia, The question of specialization levels in pottery production between the end of the Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age in Daunia ; I. Cobas Fernandez, P. Prieto Martinez, Defining social and symbolic changes from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age through the operational sequences in NW Iberian pottery ; A. Le Fèvre-Lehöerff, Technological study as a means of identifying bronze production forms : the archaeological record of Etruria in the Early Iron Age period ; K. Prestvold, Iron production and power : a story of early large scale production of iron in mid-Norway ; G. Prisco, M. Vidale, The reconstruction of manufacturing sequences on the basis of iconography : the case of the Foundry Cup at Berlin ; E. Chiosi, The organization of production in the artisan quarter at Rocca d'Evandro ; A. Mastykova, Glass beads as an archaeological source ; G. Cascone, A. Casini, Pre-industrial mining techniques in the mountains of Campiglia Marittima (Livorno) ; S. Guideri, The production of metals for coinage in Mediaeval Tuscany : the technological context ; F. Lugli, The art of making bread by the charcoal burners of the Calabrian mountains ; P. V. Castro et al., Towards a theory of social production and social practices ; M. Vidale, Operational sequences beyond linearity.