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First published in 2012 by Bristol Classical Press
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© Ian Shaw, 2012
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978-0-7156-3118-8
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Series: Bloomsbury Egyptology
Typeset by Ray Davies
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
Chronology
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viii
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xiii
 1. Introduction: towards an explicitly anthropological analysis
of technological change and innovation in ancient Egypt
1
 2. Analysing Egyptian technological dynamics: was Egyptian
11
technology underpinned and framed by ‘science’?
24
 3. Writing: human communication as social technology
 4. Medicine, magic and pharmacy: the fusion of science and art 39
 5. Stone-working: the synthesis of traditional
chaînes opératoires
55
and ideological innovations
 6. Mummification and glass-working: issues of definition
77
and process
 7. Chariot production: technical choice and socio-political
92
change
 8. Military hardware: the east Mediterranean knowledge
economy and the emergence of the Iron Age in Egypt
110
 9. Technology embedded in urban society: finding the
individual in the general
127
151
10. Conclusions
Appendix 1. Measuring space
Appendix 2. Measuring time
Appendix 3. Astronomy and astrology
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Index
 Ancient Egyptian terms
 Assyrian terms
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This book is dedicated to Barry Kemp, Janine Bourriau and John
Ray, who taught me Egyptian archaeology, texts and material
culture in the 1980s, and have continued to inspire me with their
work ever since.
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