Cutting-edge Technologies in Ancient Greece: Materials Science Applied to Trace Ancient Technologies in the Aegean World

Marina Panagiotaki (Editor), Ilias Tomazos (Editor), and Fotios Papadimitrakopoulos (Editor)

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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
  • ISBN10 1789252989
  • ISBN13 9781789252989
  • Publish Date 31 May 2020
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Oxbow Books
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 256
  • Language English