Technology in the ancient world /
Takes technology from chipped-stone industries of the Paleolithic period to the sophisticated tools and machines of the Roman. Includes a series of drawings that reconstruct from ancient writings and from archeological evidence objects never seen before by modern man.
| Основен автор: | Hodges, Henry, 1920- |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New York :
Knopf,
1970.
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| Издание: | 1st American ed. |
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| Подобни документи: |
Online version::
Technology in the ancient world. |
Съдържание:
- Introduction: how we know what we do about pre-literate and early literate cultures and their environment
- From savage hunter to primitive farmer: the new skills and tools essential to stock raising and agriculture (?
- 5000 B.C.)
- The spread of farming and the emergence of embryonic cities and of writing (5000-3000 B.C.)
- Of monuments, ships, metallurgy and military technology (3000-2000 B.C.)
- Of chariots, sea-going ships and the expansion of trade (2000-1000 B.C.)
- Of Greeks and roads and riding horses (1000
- 300 B.C.)
- The late Greek and Roman engineers and their devotion to machinery (300 B.C.
- A.D. 500)
- The barbarians of Northern Europe, India, China and the New World.