Ancient Building Technology, Volume 1.

The wealth of excavation of ancient buildings in the past 50 years and the resulting flood of publications has created a demand for a survey of building practice in antiquity. This two-volume work deals with the techniques of setting together the fabric of ancient buildings: the manual and mechanica...

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Superior document:Technology and Change in History
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Place / Publishing House:Boston : : BRILL,, 2000.
©2000.
Year of Publication:2000
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Technology and Change in History
Physical Description:1 online resource (232 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One Animal Building and Evolutionary Biology
  • Chapter Two Palaeolithic Building
  • Chapter Three Neolithic Building
  • Chapter Four Mesopotamian Building
  • Chapter Five Egyptian Building
  • Chapter Six Levanto-Aegaean Building
  • Chapter Seven Achaemenid Persian Building
  • Chapter Eight Classical Greek Building
  • Chapter Nine Roman Building
  • Chapter Ten Late Antiquity-Early Christian, Byzantine, Sassanian Building
  • Chapter Eleven Conclusion
  • Plates 1-55
  • Index.