Vitreous materials in the late Bronze Age Aegean
By: edited by Caroline M. Jackson and Emma C. Wager.
Contributors: Jackson, Caroline M.; Wager, Emma C.
Series: Sheffield studies in Aegean archaeology -- 9; Sheffield studies in Aegean archaeology -- 9.
Publisher: Oxbow; [Distributed in the USA by] D. Brown; Oxbow Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; Oakville, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781842172612
Subjects: Glass -- Aegean Sea Region -- History -- Congresses; Faience -- Aegean Sea Region -- History -- Congresses; Bronze age -- Aegean Sea Region -- Congresses; Aegean Sea Region -- Antiquities -- Congresses; Aegean Islands (Greece and Turkey) -- Antiquities -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: Papers originally presented at the 9th annual Round Table of the Sheffield Centre for Aegean Archaeology.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Vitreous materials in the Late Bronze Age Aegean : a window to the east Mediterranean  -- Caroline M. Jackson and Emma C. Wager; title: Glass and faience production sites in New Kingdom Egypt : a review of the evidence  -- Paul T. Nicholson; title: Crushed rock and molten salt? : some aspects of the primary glass production at Qantir/Pi-Ramesse  -- Thilo Rehren and Edgar B. Pusch; title: The technological development of Aegean vitreous materials in the Bronze Age  -- Marina Panagiotaki; title: Tiny, fragile, common, precious : Mycenaean glass and faience beads and other objects  -- Georg Nightingale; title: The scientific examination fo Aegean vitreous materials : problems and potential  -- Michael Tite ... [et al.]; title: Close encounters of interesting kinds : relief beads and glass seals : design and craftsmen  -- Helen Hughes-Brock; title: Palace [trademark symbol] : speculations on palatial production in Mycenaean Greece with (some) reference to glass  -- John Bennet; title: Minoan faience revisited  -- Karen Polinger Foster; title: Colour use and symbolism in Bronze Age Crete : exploring social and technological relationships  -- Mark Peters; title: Vitreous materials in the Bronze and Early Iron Ages : some questions of values -- Susan Sherratt.