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"A place must be found on the shelves of archaeologists, conservators and anyone interested in craftsmanship." -- Conservation
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Our understanding of the daily life of early man depends to a large extent on our knowledge of the materials and manufacturing techniques that were used in the production of ancient artifacts. Such a study applied to surviving objects can also give us unexpected information about the spread of trade and its chronology, and about the transmission and adaptation of techniques among different peoples. Many books have been written on archaeological methods such as excavation, but the process of technological investigation has been less widely discussed. This book has established itself as the standard introductory account. Part One treats the raw materials themselves -- everything from clay, glass, metals and stone to wood, fibers, leather, bone, dyes and pigments -- and describes the various methods of working. Part Two outlines the general principles of laboratory examination employed by specialists in the relevant natural sciences.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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This book is a good sources of basic artefactual knowledge, covering pottery, glass, flint and metals. Easy to read and easy to understand it should be on every Archaeology students shelf.
Could do with some updating, especially concerning illustrations of artefacts.
Overall though, a good and worthwhile purchase.
Could do with some updating, especially concerning illustrations of artefacts.
Overall though, a good and worthwhile purchase.
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I am an avocational archaeologist taking a silver-smithing course, so naturally I wondered how people with less technology had done what I was doing. This book is a wonderful read if you want to know the basics about pottery, metallurgy, lithic tech, spinning and weaving, dyeing and painting. It was originally written in the 1960's so there is a bit of 'primitive"man"' phraseology, but the tone is respectful. The information is very well presented; I know almost no chemistry but I now understand metal refining better. I recommend this book to anyone high school or over who wants to know slightly more about the cleverness of our ancestors. If you want greater depth, try Pottery Analysis: A SourcebookPrudence Rice for pottery, AndreyevskeyLithics: Macroscopic Approaches to Analysis (Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology)Clovis Blade Technology: A Comparative Study of the Keven Davis Cache, Texas (Texas Archaeology and Ethnohistory Series) or Collins for lithics, and Elizabeth Wayland Barber Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years : Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times, but I recommend this book for its tone and the breadth of its subject to all archaeology and economic or social history buffs.
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