Ceramics And Civilization Volume Vii

Author : Prudence M. Rice,W. David Kingery
Publisher : Wiley-American Ceramic Society
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : UOM:39015054391647

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Ceramics and Civilization, Volume VII by Prudence M. Rice,W. David Kingery Pdf

A collection of 14 papers presented in a one day symposia held at the 98th Annual Meeting of the American Ceramic Society, Indianapolis, Indiana, April 1996. The contributors explore the variability of kilns both chronologically and geographically, stressing new data to emerge from recent archeological excavations at sites in North, Central, and South America. Topics in firing structures, brick and tile making and glass production are explored in the areas of neolithic Greece, the third millennium Indus valley, imperial China, the US Southwest, coastal Peru, during the Classic period of Mesoamerica, and in Renaissance Italy. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Philippe Boch,Jean-Claude Ni¿pce
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-05
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780470394540

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Ceramic Materials by Philippe Boch,Jean-Claude Ni¿pce Pdf

This book is primarily an introduction to the vast family of ceramic materials. The first part is devoted to the basics of ceramics and processes: raw materials, powders synthesis, shaping and sintering. It discusses traditional ceramics as well as “technical” ceramics – both oxide and non-oxide – which have multiple developments. The second part focuses on properties and applications, and discusses both structural and functional ceramics, including bioceramics. The fields of abrasion, cutting and tribology illustrate the importance of mechanical properties. It also deals with the questions/answers of a ceramicist regarding electronuclear technology. As chemistry is an essential discipline for ceramicists, the book shows, in particular, what soft chemistry can contribute as a result of sol-gel methods.

Author : Gilberto Artioli
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780191576355

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Scientific Methods and Cultural Heritage by Gilberto Artioli Pdf

Scientific techniques developed in materials science offer invaluable information to archaeology, art history, and conservation. A rapidly growing number of innovative methods, as well as many established techniques, are constantly being improved and optimised for the analysis of cultural heritage materials. The result is that on the one hand more complex problems and questions can be confronted, but on the other hand the required level of technical competence is widening the existing cultural gap between scientists and end users, such as archaeologists, museum curators, art historians, and many managers of cultural heritage who have a purely humanistic background. The book is intended as an entry-level introduction to the methods and rationales of scientific investigation of cultural heritage materials, with emphasis placed on the analytical strategies, modes of operation, and resulting information rather than on technicalities. The extensive and updated reference list should be a useful starting point for further reading. Students and researchers from the humanities approaching scientific investigations should find it useful, as well as scientists applying familiar techniques and methods to unfamiliar problems related to cultural heritage.

Author : Marino Maggetti,Bruno Messiga
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Science
ISBN : 1862391955

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Geomaterials in Cultural Heritage by Marino Maggetti,Bruno Messiga Pdf

Papers from a session of the 32nd International Geological Congress.

Author : Alysia Fischer
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 073910960X

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Hot Pursuit by Alysia Fischer Pdf

Hot Pursuit is about glass-blowing in antiquity and today. It shows how using a variety of anthropological methods to answer an archaeological question yields an intriguing glimpse into the lives of glass-blowers in antiquity.

Author : Gregory L. Possehl
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : India
ISBN : 0759101728

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The Indus Civilization by Gregory L. Possehl Pdf

A brief introduction to the history, archaeology, art, language, and culture of the Indus Valley civilization, written by the leading North American Indus archaeologist.

Author : Charles Higham,A. Kijngam
Publisher : Fine Arts Department of Thailand
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789744173898

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The Origins of the Civilization of Angkor, Volume 4 by Charles Higham,A. Kijngam Pdf

This volume reports on the initial settlement of Ban Non Wat and represents a further step towards illuminating the prehistoric societies of the upper Mun Valley during the two millennia of cultural changes that led ultimately to the swift transition to the state as represented at Phimai and beyond, to the civilisation of Angkor. It begins by describing the mortuary sequence. One of the many surprises encountered during the excavations was the presence of burials laid out in a flexed position. This was a widespread practice of hunter-gatherers in Southeast Asia, and it is likely that a group of hunters and gatherers occupied the area and used the mound of Ban Non Wat as a cemetery. Paradoxically, the radiocarbon determinations for these are contemporary with those of the Neolithic occupation. There are two phases of Neolithic occupation, which began in the 17th century BC and ended about six centuries later. These differ on the basis of the orientation of the human graves and the nature of the mortuary offerings placed with the dead. It proceeds with a consideration of the economy and the material culture of the Neolithic inhabitants who occupied the site from the 17th to the 11th centuries BC. This is the first complete report on a Neolithic site in Southeast Asia.

Author : Israel Bartal,Kenneth B. Moss
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 1400 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780300230215

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The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 7 by Israel Bartal,Kenneth B. Moss Pdf

Volume 7 of the Posen Library captures unprecedented transformations of Jewish culture amid mass migration, global capitalism, nationalism, revolution, and the birth of the secular self Between 1880 and 1918, traditions and regimes collapsed around the world, migration and imperialism remade the lives of millions, nationalism and secularization transformed selves and collectives, utopias beckoned, and new kinds of social conflict threatened as never before. Few communities experienced the pressures and possibilities of the era more profoundly than the world's Jews. This volume, seventh in The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, recaptures the vibrant Jewish cultural creativity, political striving, social experimentation, and fractious religious and secular thought that burst forth in the face of these challenges. Editors Israel Bartal and Kenneth B. Moss capture the full range of Jewish expression in a centrifugal age--from mystical visions to unabashedly antitraditional Jewish political thought, from cookbooks to literary criticism, from modernist poetry to vaudeville. They also highlight the most remarkable dimension of the 1880-1918 era: an audacious effort by newly secular Jews to replace Judaism itself with a new kind of Jewish culture centering on this-worldly, aesthetic creativity by a posited "Jewish nation" and the secular, modern, and "free" individuals who composed it. This volume is an essential starting point for anyone who wishes to understand the divided Jewish present.

Author : Julian Henderson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781139619370

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Ancient Glass by Julian Henderson Pdf

This book is an interdisciplinary exploration of archaeological glass in which technological, historical, geological, chemical, and cultural aspects of the study of ancient glass are combined. The book examines why and how this unique material was invented some 4,500 years ago and considers the ritual, social, economic, and political contexts of its development. The book also provides an in-depth consideration of glass as a material, the raw materials used to make it, and its wide range of chemical compositions in both the East and the West from its invention to the seventeenth century AD. Julian Henderson focuses on three contrasting archaeological and scientific case studies: Late Bronze Age glass, late Hellenistic-early Roman glass, and Islamic glass in the Middle East. He considers in detail the provenances of ancient glass using scientific techniques and discusses a range of vessels and their uses in ancient societies.

Author : A. Mark Pollard,Chris Gosden
Publisher : Elements in Archaeological Per
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781009184212

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An Archaeological Perspective on the History of Technology by A. Mark Pollard,Chris Gosden Pdf

Reviews the recent approaches to the History of Technology, and supports a more theoretical approach based on archaeological evidence.

Author : Margaret Adams Rasmussen,W. D. Kingery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UVA:X004401688

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Ceramics as a Global Enterprise by Margaret Adams Rasmussen,W. D. Kingery Pdf

The proceedings of a May 1998 symposium in Cincinnati, Ohio, which focused on the global trafficking of ceramic goods and material as a socio-technological activity. The 21 papers cover education, research, and development; management, production, and trade; transatlantic interactions; the Pacific c

Author : Mizuumi Amakawa
Publisher : J-Novel Club
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-02
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781718330801

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Fushi no Kami: Rebuilding Civilization Starts With a Village Volume 7 by Mizuumi Amakawa Pdf

Thanks to the research laboratory’s efforts, Ash and the Territory Reform Promotion Office have successfully driven off the werewolves! However, the aftermath of the territory’s destruction has created a huge influx of refugees seeking shelter. Ash takes on the task, but will he succeed given their dwindling supplies? With experience helping Ajole village and plenty of allies at their side, the Promotion Office is also ready to help under a brand new name! Meanwhile, Princess Alicia works to rally the capital in support of Sacula. The story of the boy who wanted to change the world concludes in the final chapter of Fushi no Kami!

Author : THOMAS N HUFFMAN.
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1001410068

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Mapungubwe: Ancient African Civilisation on the Limpopo by THOMAS N HUFFMAN. Pdf

Author : Bryan Feuer
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786417483

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Mycenaean Civilization by Bryan Feuer Pdf

Classical Greeks considered the Mycenaean civilization to be the basis of their glorious and heroic heritage, but its material existence was not confirmed until the excavations of Heinrich Schliemann in the late nineteenth century. In the ensuing years, as with the field of archaeology in general, emphasis has shifted from revealing monuments and finding treasure to dealing with less glamorous, more scientifically-oriented investigations concerning aspects such as social and political organization, economic functions and settlement patterns. With its more than 2000 entries, this reference work serves as both an introduction to and a summary of the study of ancient Mycenaean civilization. Considerably expanded from the first edition, there are 500 new entries representing materials published since 1991. The largest part of the book is made up of annotated bibliography entries arranged topically with introductory material for each section. The book also includes a general introduction to Mycenaean civilization, a glossary, and author, place and subject indexes.

Author : Joseph Needham,Rose Kerr,Nigel Wood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1244 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Ceramic industries
ISBN : 0521838339

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Science and Civilisation in China by Joseph Needham,Rose Kerr,Nigel Wood Pdf