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Ancient glass : an interdisciplinary exploration /
"This book provides an integrated interdisciplinary approach to the study of a complex and fascinating ancient material. A variety of aspects of ancient glass is discussed including principally archaeology, history, chemical analysis, materials science, geology and botany. The aims of the book...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Figures; Tables; Preface; Further Acknowledgments; one Glass as a Material; 1.1 Glass as a Material; 1.2 The Formation of Glass: Of Volcanic Glass, Asteroids, Slags and Scums; 1.3 Production of the First Glasses; 1.4 The First Glass: A Paradigm Shift?; 1.4.1 Glazed Steatite, Egyptian Blue and Faience; 1.5 Evidence of Production Sites; 1.6 Conclusions; Two Ways to Flux Silica; 2.1 Glass Raw Materials; 2.2 Halophytic Plant Ashes; 2.2.1 Occurrence and Range of Types; 2.2.2 Technological Considerations; 2.2.3 Chemical Analyses of Plant Ashes.
- 2.2.3.1 The Choice of Scientific Techniques for the Analysis of Plant Ashes2.2.3.2 Turners Research; 2.2.3.3 Brills Work; 2.2.3.4 Other and More Recent Research; 2.3 Major Elemental Compositions of Syrian Halophytic Plants and the Implications for Ancient Glass Production; 2.3.1 A Relationship between Halophytic Plant Ash Compositions and Plant Species?; 2.3.2 Glass Coloration and Halophytic Plant Ashes; 2.3.3 Alkali Levels in Halophytic Plants; 2.3.4 Calcium Levels in Halophytic Plants; 2.4 Forest Plant ash Compositions; 2.5 Natron; 2.6 Reh and Oos; 2.7 Nephaline; 2.8 Conclusions.
- Three Silica, Lime and Glass Colourants3.1 Silica; 3.2 Calcium and Aluminium; 3.3 Colourants and Opacifiers; 3.3.1 What Causes Glass Colour?; 3.3.2 The Use of Colourant Materials; 3.3.2.1 Cobalt Coloration in Glass; 3.3.2.2 Manganese-Coloured Glass; 3.3.2.3 Copper- and Gold-Coloured Translucent Glasses; 3.3.3 Decolorised Glass; 3.3.4 Glass Opacification; 3.4 Conclusions; Four Glass Chemical Compositions; 4.1 The Middle East and Europe c. 2500 b.c.-a.d. 1700; 4.1.1 Plant Ash Glasses c. 2500-c. 800 B.C.; A.D. 800-1700.
- 4.1.2 Mixed-Alkali Glass and Its Compositional Variations (c. 1100-c.750 B.C.); 4.1.3 The Transition from Plant Ash Glass to Natron Glass, c. A.D. 800; 4.1.4 Natron Glasses c. 800 B.C.-c. A.D. 800; 4.1.5 The Demise of Natron Glass Technology: The -Reintroduction' of Plant Ash Glass Technology from c. A.D. 800 in the Middle East; 4.1.6 The Demise of Natron Glass Technology: From Natron Glass to Wood Ash Glass North of the Alps; 4.1.7 Wood Ash Glasses and the Use of Other Alkali-Rich Plants (c. A.D. 800-1700); 4.1.8 Lead Oxide-Silica Glass in the West; 4.2 India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
- 4.2.1 The Compositional Types4.2.2 Soda-Alumina Glass: Technology and Trade (Beads and Bangles); 4.3 Africa and Madagascar; 4.3.1 The Compositional Types; 4.3.2 High Lime-High Alumina Glass; 4.4 China and Southeast Asia; 4.4.1 The Compositional Types; 4.4.2 Lead-Barium Oxide Glasses; 4.4.3 Potassium-Silica Glasses; 4.4.4 Potassium-Lime Glasses; 4.4.5 Lead-Potassium and Lead-Soda Glasses; 4.4.6 Mixed-Alkali Glasses in Southeast Asia; 4.4.7 Lead Oxide-Silica Glasses; Five Early Glass in the Middle East and Europe.