Umfang:
1 online resource (288 pages)
ISBN:
9781785705649
Inhalt:
Intro -- Preface and acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- 1 The mobility of artisans and opportunities for technology transfer between Western Asia and Egypt in the Late Bronze Age -- 2 Technological change in the East Mediterranean Bronze Age: capital, resources and marketing -- 3 Society and technology in the Late Bronze Age: a guided tour of the cuneiform sources -- 4 Egyptians, Hyksos and military hardware: causes, effects or catalysts? -- 5 Stone Vessel Production: New Beginnings and New Visions in New-Palace Crete -- 6 Stone Vessel Workshops in the Levant: Luxury Products of a Cosmpolitan Age -- 7 The Provenance of Canaanite Amphorae found at Memphis and Amarna in the New Kingdom -- 8 Glass and faience at Amarna: different methods of both supply for production, and subsequent distribution -- 9 Gold and Granulation: Exploring the social Implications of a Prestige Technology in the Bronze Age Mediterranean -- 10 Minoan foreign relations and copper metallurgy in MMIII-LMIII Crete -- 11 Social influences on the development and spread of glass -- 12 Problems and possibilities in workshop reconstruction: Qantir and the organisation of LBA glass working sites -- 13 The Evolution of Glazing Technologies in the Ancient Near East and Egypt -- 14 Problematising the Transition from Bronze to Iron.
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781842170502
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781842170502
Sprache:
Englisch
