Cutting-edge technologies in ancient Greece : materials science applied to trace ancient technologies in the aegean world / edited by Marina Panagiotaki, Ilias Tomazos, and Fotios Papadimitrakopoulos.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Panagiotaki, Marina, editor.

Tomazos, Ilias, editor.

Papadimitrakopoulos, Fotios, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cutting machines.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxbow Books, [2020]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

List of contributors

Preface and acknowledgements

Introduction: Lightning – fire – kiln – beacon

Part One

1. Ancient ceramic kilns: recorders of the earth’s magnetic field and firing technologies in Greek archaeological sites

2. Firing temperature definition through the application of μ – Raman spectroscopy: indicative evidence acquired through the study of a ceramic kiln from the Knossos area

3. Hagia Photia, Chrysokamino and the development of metallurgy in Early Minoan Crete

4. Mycenaean metalwork: technical evolution and social transformation in the south-western Peloponnese: an analytical investigation of Mycenaean bronze artefacts from the area of Pylos

5. Rhodian bronze casting workshops in the light of new finds

6. Reviving the techniques of the Mycenaean goldsmith

7. Remarks and hypothesis concerning the stereoscopic examination of mud and lime plasters in Minoan architecture: case studies for Monastiraki and Knossos in central Crete

8. Hydraulic mortars of antiquity analysis, characterisation and evaluation

9. Painting biographies

10. Aegean vitreous materials of the Bronze Age: technological transfer and local innovation

11. The glass workshop at 45 Vasileos Irakleiou Street, Thessaloniki: an analytical approach

12. Beads and bead making in ancient Methone, northern Greece

13. ‘The oil of Gladness’: the ancient tradition of the manufacture of aromatic oils in the Aegean 113 and the eastern Mediterranean

14. A Minoan perfumery

Part Two

15. Chemical characterisation and provenance study of late antiquity (3rd–7th century) lamps from Rhodes

16. ‘The walls are decorated with plates, jugs and cups trimmed with gold’: imported glazed ceramics in the Dodecanese from the 16th to the 19th century. The case study of the Decorative Arts Museum of 145 the Dodecanese

17 I.C.A.R.O.-IKAROS: the pottery factory of Rhodes (1928–1988)

18. Methods of production and ornamentation of Rhodian-Oriental ceramics from 1928 to 1988

19. The usage of Lartian stone through the centuries

20. Recent research providing clues on the Koan stone crafting during antiquity

21. Dating hydrated obsidian artefacts from the Mediterranean region Generated by AI.

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ISBN:

9781789253016

1789253012

9781789252996

1789252997

OCLC:

1430661062