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Science and the Past /

The ancient artifacts so carefully restored and exhibited in museums open vast windows to our understanding of humanity's past. But for every question an artefact can answer about an earlier civilization, a dozen more are raised. How long ago was this made, with what techniques, and of what mat...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bowman, Sheridan (Autor, Contribuidor)
Otros Autores: Cowell, Michael (Contribuidor), Craddock, Paul (Contribuidor), Freestone, Ian (Contribuidor), Hughes, Michael (Contribuidor), Jones, Lea (Contribuidor), La Niece, Susan (Contribuidor), Main, Peter (Contribuidor), Middleton, Andrew (Contribuidor), Wilson, David (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Foreword --   |t Preface --   |t List of Colour Plates --   |t 1. The Emergence of Scientific Inquiry into the Past --   |t 2. Ceramics: Materials for all reasons --   |t 3. Looking into Glass --   |t 4. Mining and Smelting in Antiquity --   |t 5. Metalwork: Artifice and artistry --   |t 6. Tracing to Source --   |t 7. Questions of Chronology --   |t 8. Spotting the Fakes --   |t 9. Computing and Mathematics: Putting two and two together --   |t 10. Computerising the Collections: The art of successful flea handling --   |t Glossary --   |t Index 
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