Issue 1, 2018


V. P. Golikov

Problemy vzaimodeistviia tekhnologii i kul'tury [Interaction of technologies and culture]



Technologies and historical process are tightly connected. Technologies determine material environment of the human. They are also able to transform way of thinking on a national scale, stimulating or suppressing development of a culture. This paper presents theoretical basement and main principles of a methodology by the Centre for studies on historical and traditional technologies under the Heritage Institute. It allows reconstructing historical technologies and using technological knowledge for the historical science’s tasks.

Keywords:
culture, technologies, connection between technologies and mental and material culture, historical technologies, methodology, technological quality, restoration, fine art appraisal, experimental archaeology.

Original language — Russian.

DOI: 10.24411/2686-9276-2018-00006

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