ABSTRACT
The study of material culture, although forming the core of archaeology since almost its foundation as a discipline, has witnessed an exceptional growth over the last 20 years through a revived interest in technology. It has been convincingly argued that technology is a way through which people give society a material dimension, thus rendering society durable. In other words, technology manifests the ideas, perceptions and symbolisms via which society comes into existence and reproduces itself (Latour 1991: 51–55, 79; 1993: 379–80; Latour and Lemonnier 1994: 15–16).
