The Living Rock: The Story of Metals Since Earliest Times and Their Impact on Developing CivilizationWoodhead Publishing, 1994 - 291 strani This book concentrates on the social and economic effects that metals have had on community life and on wider historical developments. It gives a fascinating perspective proclaiming that the history of metals is the history of civilization; basing the text on the results of archeometallurgists and materials scientists and looking at the advancement of societies as a direct result of their new-found technology. The author's clear and lucid style prevents the book becoming aridly academic while he maps the course of ancient history through to medieval times and beyond, showing metal to be, ultimately, the key to history. |
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Stone Age handyman | 1 |
All that glisters | 6 |
Land of two rivers | 17 |
From copper to bronze | 25 |
Desert gold | 36 |
Mediterranean Merrygoround | 51 |
The Ships of Tarshish | 62 |
A fountain running silver | 75 |
Renaissance | 132 |
After Agricola | 150 |
Mining by the sword | 165 |
The Golden Armada | 180 |
A marriage of convenience | 191 |
In the service of man | 210 |
Gone to the diggings | 231 |
Wider still and wider | 247 |
What the Romans did | 86 |
Ruling Britannia | 99 |
Into the darkness | 111 |
The Kings Field | 120 |
Epilogue | 266 |
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19th century Africa Agricola Alfred Chester Beatty alloy American ancient Arabah archaeologists Athenians Athens became began biggest Britain British bronze Bronze Age Camborne Carthaginians centre century BC charcoal civilization coast colonies continued copper Cornwall Cortés culture Cuzco deposits discovered discovery Dynasty early East Egypt Egyptians empire engineers English Europe famous furnace gold and silver golden Greek Hittites hundred important Inca industry iron island King known labour land large numbers later Laurium lead material Mediterranean Metallica metallurgy miles million mineral mining Minoan Mount Pangaeus mountains Neolithic operations Persians Pharaohs Phoenicians Pizarro platinum precious metals production prospectors rich river rock Roman Rome royal Saxons ships Sifnos skilled slaves smelters smelting Sneferu South South Africa Spain Spaniards Spanish stone story Sumerians supplies temple Thasos thousand Timna tons trade treasure Tyre underground valley wealth