Technology in the ancient world / Henry Hodges ; with drawings by Judith Newcomer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hodges, Henry, 1920-

Contributor:

Newcomer, Judith., Illustrator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technology--History.

Technology.

Industries, Primitive.

Technology and civilization.

Physical Description:

xvi, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Barnes & Noble, 1992, ©1970.

Contents:

How we know what we do about preliterate 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.

Notes:

Originally published: London : Allen Lane, 1970.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0880298936

9780880298933

OCLC:

26876782