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Ancient Egyptian Technology and Innovation: Transformations in Pharaonic Material Culture
2012, Bloomsbury
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0715631187 9780715631188
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Table of Contents
Preface.
Page vii
Acknowledgements.
Page viii
List of illustrations.
Page ix
Chronology.
Page xiii
Chapter 1.
Introduction: towards an explicitly anthropological analysis of technological change and innovation in ancient Egypt
Page 1
Chapter 2.
Analysing Egyptian technological dynamics: was Egyptian technology underpinned and framed by 'science'?
Page 11
Chapter 3.
Writing: human communication as social technology
Page 24
Chapter 4.
Medicine, magic and pharmacy: the fusion of science and art
Page 39
Chapter 5.
Stone-working: the synthesis of traditional chaines operatorires and ideological innovations
Page 55
Chapter 6.
Mummification and glass-working: issues of definition and process
Page 77
Chapter 7.
Chariot production: technical choice and socio-political change
Page 92
Chapter 8.
Military hardware: the east Mediterranean knowledge economy and the emergence of the Iron Age in Egypt
Page 110
Chapter 9.
Technology embedded in urban society: finding the individual in the general
Page 127
Chapter 10.
Conclusions
Page 151
Appendix 1.
Measuring space
Page 157
Appendix 2.
Measuring time
Page 160
Appendix 3.
Astronomy and astrology
Page 163
Abbreviations.
Page 167
Bibliography.
Page 169
Index.
Page 191
Ancient Egyptian terms
Page 199
Assyrian terms
Page 200
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