Ancient Egyptian technology and innovation : transformations in pharaonic material culture /: transformations in pharaonic material culture. (2015 copyright 2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ian Shaw.
• Authors: Shaw, Ian, 1961-
• Contents: Introduction: towards an explicitly anthropological analysis of technologcial change and innovation in ancient Egypt -- Analysing Egyptian technological dynamics: was Egyptian technology underpinned and framed by 'science'? -- Writing: human communication as social technology -- Medicine, magic and pharmacy: the fusion of science and art -- Stone-working: the synthesis of traditional chaînes opératories and ideological innovations -- Mummification and glass-working: issues of definition and process -- Chariot production: technical choice and socio-political change -- Military hardware: the east Mediterranean knowledge economy and the emergence of the Iron Age in Egypt -- Technology embedded in urban society: finding the individual in the general -- Appendix 1. Measuring space -- Appendix 2. Measuring time -- Appendix 3. Astronomy and astrology.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (216 pages)
• Subjects: 609.32; Ancient history: to c 500 CE; Technology -- Egypt -- History -- To 1500; Technological innovations -- Egypt -- History -- To 1500; Material culture -- Egypt; Civilization; Material culture; Technological innovations; Technology; Technischer Fortschritt; Technischer Fortschritt; History of engineering & technology; History -- Africa -- General; African history; Egypt -- Civilization -- To 332 B.C; Egypt; Ägypten (Altertum); Ägypten; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781472519603; 1472519604
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.