Petrification Processes in Matter and Society
- Springer International Publishing
- 2021
- Gebunden
- 228 Seiten
- ISBN 9783030693879
Petrification is a process, but it also can be understood as a concept. This volume takes the first steps to manifest, materialize or ¿petrify¿ the concept of ¿petrification¿ and turn it into a tool for analyzing material and social processes. The wide array of approaches to petrification as a process assembled here is more of a collection of possibilities than an attempt to establish a firm, law-generating theory. Divided into three parts, this volume¿s twenty-plus authors explore petrification both as a theoretical concept and as a contextualized material and social process across geological, prehistoric and historic periods. Topics connecting the various papers are properties of materials,
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