From Mine to Microscope
Advances in the Study of Ancient Technology
Published on 9. April 2009
Book
Hardback
384 pages
978-1-84217-259-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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...an important collection of articles by colleagues and former students of Michael("Mike") Tite and is a fitting tribute to the work of a superb scholar...' -- Expedition Magazine Expedition MagazineMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 280 mm
Width: 216 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84217-259-9 (9781842172599)
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Freestone Ian Freestone | Rehren Thilo Rehren | Shortland Andrew J. Shortland
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Freestone Ian Freestone | Rehren Thilo Rehren | Shortland Andrew J. Shortland
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Persons
Ian Freestone is Professor of Archaeological Materials and Technology at University College London where his research is focused on the application of scientific methods to the investigation of artifacts and their interpretation, particularly in the fields of ceramic materials and glass. Thilo Rehren is Professor for Archaeological Materials and Director of the Science and Technology in Archaeology Research Center, Nicosia, Cyprus. His research focuses on the reconstruction and understanding of the technological processes related to the manufacture of metals, glass, glazes and ceramics.
Content
Lead Frits in Islamic and Hispano-moresque Glazed Productions (J Molera, T Pradell, N Salvado and M Vendrell-Saz)
The Emergence of Ceramic Technology and its Evolution as Revealed with the use of Scientific Techniques (Yannis Maniatis)
Neolithic Pottery from Switzerland: Raw Materials and Manufacturing Processes (M Maggetti)
Low-tech in Amalfi: provenance and date assignation of Medieval Middle-Eastern Pottery by Application of Eyeball Technique (Robert B J Mason)
Some Implications of the use of Wood Ash in Chinese stoneware glazes of the 9th-12th Centuries (Nigel Wood)
The Hispano-Moresque Tin Glazed Ceramics Produced in Tereul, Spain: A Technology Between Two Historical Periods, 13th-16th c. AD (J Perez-Arantegui, J Ortega and C Escriche)
Beads beyond number: faience from the 'Isis Tomb' at Vulci, Italy (Andrew P Middleton)
Egyptian blue in Greek painting between 2500 and 50 BC (Ioanna Kakoulli)
Links between glazes and glass in mid-2nd millennium BC Mesopotamia and Egypt (S Paynter)
The fish's tale: A Foreign Glassworker at Amarna? (A J Shortland)
Ancient Copper Red Glasses: Investigation and Analysis by Microbeam Techniques (D J Barber, I C Freestone and K M Moulding)
The Provenance of Archaeological Plant Ash Glasses (Julian Henderson)
Microanalysis of Glass by Laser Induced Plasma Spectroscopy (Marc S Walton)
New Thoughts on Niello (Peter Northover and Susan La Niece)
From Mine to Microbe - the Neolithic Copper Melting Crucibles from Switzerland (Thilo Rehren)
Across the wine dark seas: Sailor tinkers and royal cargoes in the Late Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean (Zofia Anna Stos)
What A Long, Strange Trip It's Been: Lead Isotopes and Archaeology (A M Pollard)
A Response to the Paper of A.M. Pollard: What a Long, Strange Trip it's Been: Lead Isotopes and Archaeology (Noel Gale)
The Juice of the Pomegranate: Processing and Quality Control of Alumen in Antiquity, and Making Sense of Pliny's Phorimon and Paraphoron (A J Hall and Effie Photos-Jones)
Finding the Floorstone (P T Craddock and M R Cowell)
'Sweet waste': The industrial waste from the medieval sugar refinery at the Tawahin es-Sukkar in Jordan (E. Photos-Jones, A. Hall , R. Jones and E. Pantos)
The Emergence of Ceramic Technology and its Evolution as Revealed with the use of Scientific Techniques (Yannis Maniatis)
Neolithic Pottery from Switzerland: Raw Materials and Manufacturing Processes (M Maggetti)
Low-tech in Amalfi: provenance and date assignation of Medieval Middle-Eastern Pottery by Application of Eyeball Technique (Robert B J Mason)
Some Implications of the use of Wood Ash in Chinese stoneware glazes of the 9th-12th Centuries (Nigel Wood)
The Hispano-Moresque Tin Glazed Ceramics Produced in Tereul, Spain: A Technology Between Two Historical Periods, 13th-16th c. AD (J Perez-Arantegui, J Ortega and C Escriche)
Beads beyond number: faience from the 'Isis Tomb' at Vulci, Italy (Andrew P Middleton)
Egyptian blue in Greek painting between 2500 and 50 BC (Ioanna Kakoulli)
Links between glazes and glass in mid-2nd millennium BC Mesopotamia and Egypt (S Paynter)
The fish's tale: A Foreign Glassworker at Amarna? (A J Shortland)
Ancient Copper Red Glasses: Investigation and Analysis by Microbeam Techniques (D J Barber, I C Freestone and K M Moulding)
The Provenance of Archaeological Plant Ash Glasses (Julian Henderson)
Microanalysis of Glass by Laser Induced Plasma Spectroscopy (Marc S Walton)
New Thoughts on Niello (Peter Northover and Susan La Niece)
From Mine to Microbe - the Neolithic Copper Melting Crucibles from Switzerland (Thilo Rehren)
Across the wine dark seas: Sailor tinkers and royal cargoes in the Late Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean (Zofia Anna Stos)
What A Long, Strange Trip It's Been: Lead Isotopes and Archaeology (A M Pollard)
A Response to the Paper of A.M. Pollard: What a Long, Strange Trip it's Been: Lead Isotopes and Archaeology (Noel Gale)
The Juice of the Pomegranate: Processing and Quality Control of Alumen in Antiquity, and Making Sense of Pliny's Phorimon and Paraphoron (A J Hall and Effie Photos-Jones)
Finding the Floorstone (P T Craddock and M R Cowell)
'Sweet waste': The industrial waste from the medieval sugar refinery at the Tawahin es-Sukkar in Jordan (E. Photos-Jones, A. Hall , R. Jones and E. Pantos)