Subject
Style
Style. The manner in which a thing is made rather than the thing itself — the idiom, convention, or recognizable hand that distinguishes one body of work from another in the same medium. Style has no appearance in history, because no made object lacks one: it is coeval with making, and a date for it would be a date for human craft in general. The subject is applied where an entry turns on the idiom — its formation, transmission, imitation, or abandonment — rather than on the object, the maker, or the trade. The earliest entry carrying it in this Atlas falls in the age 4653 to 4510 BCE, which is a fact about the corpus and not about the category.