
From Mine to Microscope
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- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- An Apology
- M.S. Tite Bibliography
- Chapter 1: Lead frits in Islamic and Hispano-Moresque glazed productions
- Chapter 2: The emergence of ceramic technology and its evolution as revealed with the use of scientific techniques
- Chapter 3: Neolithic pottery from Switzerland: raw materials and manufacturing processes
- Chapter 4: Low-tech in Amalfi: provenance and date assignation of medieval Middle-Eastern pottery by application of eyeball technique
- Chapter 5: Some implications of the use of wood ash in Chinese stoneware glazes of the 9th-12th centuries
- Chapter 6: The Hispano-Moresque tin glazed ceramics produced in Teruel, Spain: a technology between two historical periods, 13th to 16th c. AD
- Chapter 7: Beads beyond number: faience from the 'Isis Tomb' at Vulci, Italy
- Chapter 8: Egyptian blue in Greek painting between 2500 and 50 BC
- Chapter 9: Links between glazes and glass in mid-2nd millennium BC Mesopotamia and Egypt
- Chapter 10: The fish's tale: a foreign glassworker at Amarna?
- Chapter 11: Ancient copper red glasses: investigation and analysis by microbeam techniques
- Chapter 12: The provenance of archaeological plant ash glasses
- Chapter 13: Microanalysis of glass by Laser Induced Plasma Spectroscopy
- Chapter 14: New thoughts on niello
- Chapter 15: From mine to microbe - the Neolithic copper melting crucibles from Switzerland
- Chapter 16: Across the wine dark seas. sailor tinkers and royal cargoes in the Late Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean
- Chapter 17: What a long, strange trip it's been: lead isotopes and archaeology
- A response to the paper of A.M. Pollard: What a long, strange trip it's been: lead isotopes and archaeology
- Chapter 18: The juice of the pomegranate: processing and quality control of alumen in antiquity, and making sense of Pliny's phorimon and paraphoron
- Chapter 19: Finding the Floorstone
- Chapter 20: 'Sweet waste': The industrial waste from the medieval sugar refinery at the Tawahin es-Sukkar in Jordan
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