Research Catalog

Title

Ancient technologies and archaeological materials / edited by Sarah U. Wisseman and Wendell S. Williams.

Publication

Langhorne, Pa. : Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, [1994], ©1994.

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Additional Authors

• Wisseman, Sarah Underhill.
• Williams, Wendell S., 1928-

Description

xi, 250 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

Ancient Technologies and Archaeological Materials presents solutions to questions of dating, composition, provenience, and technology through the application of instrumental techniques to archaeological materials. The book also examines the reconstruction of early environments through analysis of bone and plant remains, the replication of artifacts to better understand ancient technologies through experimental archaeology, and the authentication of museum objects.

Subject

• Archaeology
• Technology > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Why Study Artifacts? An Interdisciplinary Approach / Sarah U. Wisseman and Wendell S. Williams -- 2. From Pots to People: Ceramic Production in the Ancient Mediterranean / Sarah U. Wisseman -- 3. The Diffusion of Technological Knowledge: A Case Study in North American Ceramic Analysis / Thomas J. Riley, Philip Hopke, Rodger Martin and James Porter -- 4. Invention, Thought, and Process: Strategies in Iron Tool Production / Charles Keller -- 5. Classics and Technology: A Reevaluation of Heron's First Century A.D. Steam Engine / Paul Keyser -- 6. Can Elemental Analysis of Archaeological Skeletons Determine Past Diet and Health? / Linda L. Klepinger -- 7. Plants and People: An Introduction to Paleoethnobotany / Margaret van de Guchte and Richard Edging -- 8. History, Identification, and Characterization of Old World Fibers and Dyes / Mastura Raheel -- 9. Science and the Art Museum: The Analysis of Archaeological Materials / Wendell S. Williams.
• 10. X-Ray Vision: The Recovery of Early Medieval Ironwork / Barbara Oehlschlaeger-Garvey, Henry Maguire, Wendell S. Williams and Richard Keen -- 11. Saving the Monuments of the Athenian Acropolis / Eric C. Freund -- 12. Imaging the Past: Nondestructive Analysis of an Egyptian Mummy / Sarah U. Wisseman.

ISBN

• 2881246311 (hardcover)
• 288124632X (softcover)

LCCN

93030738

OCLC

• 28634005
• ocm28634005
• SCSB-14412320

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Columbia University Libraries