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Technology in the ancient world
- Title
- Technology in the ancient world / Henry Hodges ; with drawings by Judith Newcomer.
- Author
- Hodges, Henry, 1920-
- Publication
- New York : Knopf, 1970.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Newcomer, Judith
- Description
- xvi, 287, x pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- Takes technology from chipped-stone industries of the Paleolithic period to the sophisticated tools and machines of the Roman. Includes a series of drawings that reconstruct from ancient writings and from archeological evidence objects never seen before by modern man.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Introduction: how we know what we do about pre-literate and early literate cultures and their environment -- From savage hunter to primitive farmer: the new skills and tools essential to stock raising and agriculture (? -- 5000 B.C.) -- The spread of farming and the emergence of embryonic cities and of writing (5000-3000 B.C.) -- Of monuments, ships, metallurgy and military technology (3000-2000 B.C.) -- Of chariots, sea-going ships and the expansion of trade (2000-1000 B.C.) -- Of Greeks and roads and riding horses (1000 -- 300 B.C.) -- The late Greek and Roman engineers and their devotion to machinery (300 B.C. -- A.D. 500) -- The barbarians of Northern Europe, India, China and the New World.
- LCCN
- 71079353
- OCLC
- ocm00093200
- 93200
- SCSB-125483
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library