Ancient Egyptian Technology and Innovation
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Ancient Egyptian Technology and Innovation

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Ancient Egyptian Technology and Innovation

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This book examines the fundamental evidence for many different aspects of change and evolution in ancient Egyptian technology. It includes discussion of the wider cognitive and social contexts, such as the Egyptian propensity for mental creativity and innovation, and the pace of change in Egypt in comparison with other African, Mediterranean and Near Eastern states. This book draws not only on traditional archaeological and textual sources but also on the results of scientific analyses of ancient materials and on experimental and ethno-archaeological information. Case-studies analyse those aspects of Egyptian society that made it either predisposed or actively opposed to certain types of conservatism or innovation in material culture, such as the techniques of stone-working, medicine, mummification and monumental construction. The book also includes detailed discussion of the ways in which the practice and development of Egyptian technology interrelated with Late Bronze Age urban society as a whole, using the city at Amarna as a case-study.

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2015
ISBN
9781472519597
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
Egyptian Ancient History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. List of illustrations
  6. Chronology
  7. 1. Introduction: towards an explicitly anthropological analysis of technological change and innovation in ancient Egypt
  8. 2. Analysing Egyptian technological dynamics: was Egyptian technology underpinned and framed by ‘science’?
  9. 3. Writing: human communication as social technology
  10. 4. Medicine, magic and pharmacy: the fusion of science and art
  11. 5. Stone-working: the synthesis of traditional chaßnes opératoires and ideological innovations
  12. 6. Mummification and glass-working: issues of definition and process
  13. 7. Chariot production: technical choice and socio-political change
  14. 8. Military hardware: the east Mediterranean knowledge economy and the emergence of the Iron Age in Egypt
  15. 9. Technology embedded in urban society: finding the individual in the general
  16. 10. Conclusions
  17. Appendix 1. Measuring space
  18. Appendix 2. Measuring time
  19. Appendix 3. Astronomy and astrology
  20. Abbreviations
  21. Bibliography
  22. Index
  23. Ancient Egyptian terms
  24. Assyrian terms