Cutting-edge Technologies in Ancient Greece Marina Panagiotaki

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Focuses on innovations in fire-based technologies (metallurgy, ceramics, glass etc) of the Bronze Age-Byzantine periods in the Aegean region.

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Cutting-edge Technologies in Ancient Greece: Materials Science Applied to Trace Ancient Technologies in the Aegean World by Marina Panagiotaki

This volume examines materials produced with the use of fire and mostly by use of the kiln (metals, plasters, glass and glaze, aromatics)

The technologies based on fire have been considered high-tech technologies and they have contributed to the evolution of man throughout history

Papers highlight technical innovations of the technician/artist/pyrotechnologist that lived in the Aegean (mainland Greece and the islands) during the Bronze Age, the Classical and the Byzantine periods

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The expert will no doubt find much of value including useful comparanda for other pre-modern societies. [...] even the educated lay person who approaches the material with great patience may also be rewarded with new perspectives on ongoing questions. * Antiquity *

About Marina Panagiotaki

Marina Panagiotaki is an assistant professor at the Department of Mediterranean Studies of the University of the Aegean on Rhodes. She teaches the Aegean civilizations of the Bronze Age and the relations that developed between the Aegean and the Near East Ilias Tomazos is a Professor in the Department of Literatures, Cultures & Languages, University of Conneticut. Fotios Papadimitrakopoulos is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Conneticut specialising in a wide range of nanomaterials and devices in the area of the nanosized bio-systems and the supramolecular assembly of artificial nanostructures and their

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NPB9781789252989

ISBN 13

9781789252989

ISBN 10

1789252989

Title

Cutting-edge Technologies in Ancient Greece: Materials Science Applied to Trace Ancient Technologies in the Aegean World by Marina Panagiotaki

Author

Marina Panagiotaki

Condition

New

Binding type

Hardback

Publisher

Oxbow Books

Year published

2020-05-31

Number of pages

256

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