From mine to microscope
Subtitle: advances in the study of ancient technology
By: edited by Andrew J. Shortland, Ian C. Freestone and Thilo Rehren.
Contributors: Shortland, Andrew J.; Freestone, Ian.; Rehren, Thilo.
Publisher: Oxbow Books; [Distributed in the U.S. by] D. Brown Bk. Co.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford, UK; Oakville, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9781842172599
Subjects: Technology -- History -- To 1500; Industrial arts -- History -- To 1500; Industries, Prehistoric; Tools, Prehistoric
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Lead frits in Islamic and Hispano-Moresque glazed productions; title: The emergence of ceramic technology and its evolution as revealed with the use of scientific techniques; title: Neolithic pottery from Switzerland: raw materials and manufacturing processes; title: Low-tech in Amalfi: provenance and date assignation of medieval Middle-Eastern pottery by application of eyeball technique; title: Some implications of the use of wood ash in Chinese stoneware glazes of the 9th-12th centuries; title: The Hispano-Moresque tin glazed ceramics produced in Teruel, Spain: a technology between two historical periods, 13th to 16th c. AD; title: Beads beyond number: faience from the 'Isis Tomb' at Vulci, Italy; title: Egyptian blue in Greek painting between 2500 and 50 BC; title: Links between glazes and glass in mid-2nd millennium BC Mesopotamia and Egypt; title: The fish's tale: a foreign glassworker at Amarna?; title: Ancient copper red glasses: investigation and analysis by microbeam techniques; title: The provenance of archaeological plant ash glasses; title: Microanalysis of glass by Laser Induced Plasma Spectroscopy; title: New thoughts on niello; title: From mine to microbe - the Neolithic copper melting crucibles from Switzerland; title: Across the wine dark seas... sailor tinkers and royal cargoes in the Late Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean; title: What a long, strange trip it's been: lead isotopes and archaeology; title: The juice of the pomegranate: processing and quality control of alumen in antiquity, and making sense of Pliny's Phorimon and Paraphoron; title: Finding the Floorstone; title: 'Sweet waste': The industrial waste from the medieval sugar refinery at the Tawahin es-Sukkar in Jordan.