The knowledge economy and technological capabilites
Subtitle: Egypt, the Near East and the Mediterranean, 2nd millennium B.C. - 1st millennium A.D. : proceedings of a conference held at the Maison de la Chimie, Paris, France 9-10 December 2005
By: edited by Myriam Wissa
Series: Aula Orientalis. Supplementa -- 26; Aula orientalis -- 26.
Publisher: Editorial Ausa
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Sabadell, Barcelona, Spain
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9788488810823
Subjects: Technology; Congresses; History; Antiquities; Civilization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contributions in English or French.
Table of contents: title: Préface / -- Laure Pantalacci -- Introduction and acknowledgements / -- Myriam Wissa -- Introductory remarks / -- Oleg Grabar; title: Réception linguistique et idéologique d'une nouvelle technologie :; title: le cheval dans la civilisation pharaonique  -- Pascal Vernus; title: Archives et comptabilité en Mésopotamie au deuxième millénaire av. J.C.  -- Dominique Charpin; title: Business companies in Babylonia in the first millennium B.C. :; title: structure, economic strategies, social setting  -- Michael Jursa; title: The invention of the alphabet and economic growth in the Levant in the first millennium B.C.  -- Anthony Frendo; title: Socio-economic and iconographic contexts for Egyptian military technology :; title: the knowledge economy and 'technology transfer' in Late Bronze Age warfare  -- Ian Shaw; title: Simulating movement, communication and flows of knowledge at Kerkenes Dağ  -- Scott Branting; title: The production and exchange of vitreous materials in Egypt and the Aegean during the second millennium B.C.  -- Paul Nicholson; title: Cornelian production techniques :; title: evidence for a technological knowledge in Egypt  -- Myriam Wissa; title: L'influence des techniques navales sur le contexte économique de la Grèce à la fin de l'époque archaïque  -- Patrice Pomey; title: The metallurgical industries of Roman Britain :; title: the native and Roman contribution  -- William Manning; title: A medieval Jewish community :; title: an analysis of the technologucal context and the socio-economic life through S.D. Goitein "Mediterranean society" -- Mireille Loubet.