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Technology in the ancient world

Author:	Henry Hodges
Publisher:	New York : Knopf, 1970.
Edition/Format:	Book : English : 1st American edView all editions and formats
Summary:	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.
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Additional Physical Format:	Online version: Hodges, Henry, 1920- Technology in the ancient world. New York : Knopf, 1970 (OCoLC)659606435
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Henry Hodges Find more information about:
OCLC Number:	93200
Description:	xvi, 287, x p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents:	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.
Responsibility:	Henry Hodges ; with drawings by Judith Newcomer.

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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.

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