Ancient Technology by John W Humphrey
As he touches on the common elements of ancient technologyenergy, machines, mining, metallurgy, ceramics, agriculture, engineering, transportation, and communicationHumphrey asks questions central to understanding the impact of ancient tools on the modern world: What prompts change?
Roman historian and archaeologist Humphrey surveys both physical and ideological/linguistic inventions of the ancient Mediterranean societies in this volumeIllustrations accompany text explaining the context and use of technologies in the categories of food and clothing, water, shelter and security, transportation and coinage, recordkeeping and timekeeping, and crafts that developed between the Archaic era in Greece and the height of the Roman Empire. Additionally, one section provides brief biographies of known inventors of the time, and another contains 54 topical primary documents, including instructions for constructing a plow and building a Roman aqueduct. * SciTech Book News//Art Book News Annual 2007 *
JOHN W. HUMPHREY is a Roman historian and archaeologist at the University of Calgary. He is co-author of Greek and Roman Technology: A Sourcebook (1998), a volume of translated and annotated ancient texts that describe the technical history of the Greeks and Romans. He has excavated at four sites in Greece and Turkey, and has traveled extensively throughout the Mediterranean, studying and photographing contemporary examples of ancient technologies.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780313327636 |
| ISBN 10 | 0313327637 |
| Title | Ancient Technology |
| Author | John W Humphrey |
| Series | Greenwood Guides To Historic Events Of The Ancient World |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Year published | 2006-09-30 |
| Number of pages | 248 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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