From mine to microscope : advances in the study of ancient technology / edited by Andrew Shortland, Ian C. Freestone and Thilo Rehren.

• Lead frits in Islamic and Hispano-Moresque glazed productions -- The emergence of ceramic technology and its evolution as revealed with the use of scientific techniques -- Neolithic pottery from Switzerland: raw materials and manufacturing processes -- Low-tech in Amalfi: provenance and date assignation of medieval Middle-Eastern pottery by application of eyeball technique -- Some implications of the use of wood ash in Chinese stoneware glazes of the 9th-12th centuries -- The Hispano-Moresque tin glazed ceramics produced in Teruel, Spain: a technology between two historical periods, 13th to 16th c. AD -- Beads beyond number: faience from the 'Isis Tomb' at Vulci, Italy -- Egyptian blue in Greek painting between 2500 and 50 BC -- Links between glazes and glass in mid-2nd millennium BC Mesopotamia and Egypt -- The fish's tale: a foreign glassworker at Amarna? -- Ancient copper red glasses: investigation and analysis by microbeam techniques -- The provenance of archaeological plant ash glasses -- Microanalysis of glass by Laser Induced Plasma Spectroscopy -- New thoughts on niello -- From mine to microbe - the Neolithic copper melting crucibles from Switzerland -- Across the wine dark seas ... sailor tinkers and royal cargoes in the Late Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean -- What a long, strange trip it's been: lead isotopes and archaeology -- The juice of the pomegranate: processing and quality control of alumen in antiquity, and making sense of Pliny's Phorimon and Paraphoron -- Finding the Floorstone -- 'Sweet waste': The industrial waste from the medieval sugar refinery at the Tawahin es-Sukkar in Jordan.

• "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"-- 

Ämnesord

Teknik  -- historia (sao)

Technology  -- History -- To 1500. (LCSH)

Industrial arts  -- History -- To 1500. (LCSH)

Före 1500  (sao)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

J Arkeologi

P:k.2 Teknik, industri och kommunikationer: historia: forntiden

P:k.3 Teknik, industri och kommunikationer: historia: medeltiden

Aalz Bibliografi: särskilda personer

Klassifikation

609.01 (DDC)

J (kssb/8)

P:k.2 (kssb/8)

P:k.3 (kssb/8)

Aalz Tite, M. S. (kssb/8)