The Social Context of Technological Change in

These fourteen papers, arising from a conference held in Oxford in September 2000, take the approach that technology plays a vital role in past socio-economic systems. They cover the Near East and associated areas, including Greece, Crete, Cyprus, Anatolia, the Levant, Mesopotamia and Egypt from the end of the Middle Bronze Age to the Late Bronze Age (1650-1150 BC), a period when many technological innovations appear for the first time.

Preface and acknowledgements

List of contributors

The mobility of artisans and opportunities for technology transfer between Western Asia and Egypt in the Late Bronze Age

1

(14)

P R S Moorey

Technological change in the East Mediterranean Bronze Age: capital, resources and marketing

15

(24)

Andrew

Susan Sherratt

Society and technology in the Late Bronze Age: a guided tour of the cuneiform sources

39

(20)

Eleanor Robson

Egyptians, Hyksos and military hardware: causes, effects or catalysts?

59

(14)

Ian Shaw

Stone Vessel Production: New Beginnings and New Visions in New-Palace Crete

73

(20)

Jacke Phillips

Stone Vessel Workshops in the Levant: Luxury Products of a Cosmpolitan Age

93

(20)

Rachael Sparks

The Provenance of Canaanite Amphorae found at Memphis and Amarna in the New Kingdom

113

(34)

Janine Bourriau

Laurence Smith

Margaret Serpico

Glass and faience at Amarna: different methods of both supply for production, and subsequent distribution

147

(14)

Andrew Shortland

Paul Nicholson

Caroline Jackson

Gold and Granulation: Exploring the social Implications of a Prestige Technology in the Bronze Age Mediterranean

161

(34)

Thea Politis

Minoan foreign relations and copper metallurgy in MMIII-LMIII Crete

195

(16)

Zophia Stos-Gale

Social influences on the development and spread of glass

211

(12)

Andrew Shortland

Problems and possibilities in workshop reconstruction: Qantir and the organisation of LBA glass working sites

223

(16)

Thilo Rehren

Edgar Pusch

Anja Herold

The Evolution of Glazing Technologies in the Ancient Near East and Egypt

239

(16)

Sarah Paynter

Mike Tite

Problematising the Transition from Bronze to Iron

255

Peter Haarer

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