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Ancient Technologies and Archaeological Materials
Author | : Sarah U. Wisseman,Wendell S. Williams |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2013-11-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781134303335 |
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First Published in 1993.This book is a user-friendly introduction to the interface between archaeology and the natural sciences. It is intended as a secondary textbook for undergraduates in interdisciplinary courses in anthropology, archaeological science, museum studies, or materials science. This title will also be useful to graduate students taking a course outside their major field, and to archaeologists, curators, and scientists in a variety of settings who are engaged in interdisciplinary research. Each chapter includes references and suggested readings; a glossary of technical terms concludes the volume.
Archaeological Approaches to Technology
Author | : Heather Margaret-Louise Miller |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2017-03-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781315434599 |
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This book is designed for upper-division undergraduate and graduate level archaeology students taking courses in ancient technologies, archaeological craft production, material culture, the history of technology, archaeometry, and field methods. This text can also serve as a general introduction and a reference for archaeologists, material culture specialists in socio-cultural disciplines, and engineers/scientists interested in the backgrounds and histories of their disciplines. The study of ancient technologies, that is, the ways in which objects and materials were made and used can reveal insights into economic, social, political, and ritual realms of the past. This book summarizes the current state of ancient technology studies by emphasizing methodologies, some major technologies, and the questions and issues that drive archaeologists in their consideration of these technologies. It shows the ways that technology studies can be used by archaeologists working anywhere, on any type of society and it embraces an orientation toward the practical, not the philosophical. It compares the range of pre-industrial technologies, from stone tool production, fiber crafts, wood and bone working, fired clay crafts, metal production, and glass manufacture. It includes socially contextualized case studies, as well as general descriptions of technological processes. It discusses essential terminology (technology, material culture, chaine operatoire, etc.), primarily from the perspective of how these terms are used by archaeologists.
The Science and Archaeology of Materials
Author | : Julian Henderson |
Publsiher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Archaeological chemistry |
ISBN | : 9780415199339 |
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This volume provides a clear and up-to-date description of how the materials were exploited, modified and manufactured in prehistoric and historic periods.
An Archaeological Perspective on the History of Technology
Author | : A. Mark Pollard,Chris Gosden |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 2023-02-22 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781009207102 |
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This volume represents an introduction to a new world-wide attempt to review the history of technology, which is one of few since the pioneering publications of the 1960s. It takes an explicit archaeological focus to the study of the history of technology and adopts a more explicit socially-embedded view of technology than has commonly been the case in mainstream histories of technology. In doing so, it attempts to introduce a more radical element to explanations of technological change, involving magic, alchemy, animism - in other words, attempting to consider technological change in terms of the 'world view' of those involved in such change rather than from an exclusively western scientific perspective.
From Mine to Microscope
Author | : Ian Freestone,Thilo Rehren |
Publsiher | : Oxbow Books |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2009-04-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781782972778 |
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These twenty papers dedicated to Mike Tite focus upon the interpretation of ancient artefacts and technologies, particularly through the application of materials analysis. Instruments from the human eye to mass spectrometry provide insights into a range of technologies ranging from classical alum extraction to Bronze Age wall painting, and cover materials as diverse as niello, flint, bronze, glass and ceramic. Ranging chronologically from the Neolithic through to the medieval period, and geographically from Britain to China, these case studies provide a rare overview which will be of value to students, teachers and researchers with an interest in early material culture.
Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technology
Author | : Paul T. Nicholson,Ian Shaw |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 740 |
Release | : 2000-03-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521452570 |
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The book describes current research into all aspects of craftwork in ancient Egypt.
Cutting edge Technologies in Ancient Greece
Author | : Marina Panagiotaki,Ilias Tomazos,Fotios Papadimitrakopoulos |
Publsiher | : Oxbow Books |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2020-04-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781789253016 |
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This volume examines materials produced with the use of fire and mostly by use of the kiln (metals, plasters, glass and glaze, aromatics). The technologies based on fire have been considered high-tech technologies and they have contributed to the evolution of man throughout history. Papers highlight technical innovations of the technician/artist/pyrotechnologist that lived in the Aegean (mainland Greece and the islands) during the Bronze Age, the Classical and the Byzantine periods.
Ancient Mesopotamian Materials and Industries
Author | : Peter Roger Stuart Moorey |
Publsiher | : Eisenbrauns |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1575060426 |
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This is the first systematic attempt to survey in detail the archaeological evidence for the crafts and craftsmanship of the Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians in ancient Mesopotamia, covering the period ca. 8000-300 B.C.E. As creators of some of the earliest farming and urban communities known to us, these people were among the first pioneers of many crafts and skills that remain fundamental to modern ways of life. Many of the raw materials for crafts had to be imported from outside the river valley of the Tigris and Euphrates, providing an unusually sensitive indicator of the commercial and cultural contacts of Mesopotamia. In this book, Dr. Moorey reviews briefly the textual evidence, and then goes on to examine in detail the material evidence for a wide range of crafts using stones, both common and ornamental, animal products--from hippopotamus ivory to ostrich egg-shells--ceramics, glazed materials and glass, metals, and building materials. With a comprehensive bibliography, this will be a key work of reference for archaeologists and those interested in the early history of crafts and technology, as well as for specialist historians of the ancient Near East.