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024 7 _a10.1163/9789004477537
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100 1 _aWright, G.R.H.,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aAncient Building Technology, Volume 1: Historical Background /
_cG.R.H. Wright.
264 1 _aLeiden ;
_aBoston :
_bBrill,
_c2000.
264 4 _c©2000
300 _a1 online resource
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aTechnology and Change in History ;
_v4
490 1 _aEuropean History and Culture - Book Archive 2000-2006
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _tPreliminary Material /
_rG.R.H. Wright -- Illustrations /
_rG.R.H. Wright -- Abbreviations in Bibliographies /
_rG.R.H. Wright -- Introduction /
_rG.R.H. Wright -- Chapter One Animal Building and Evolutionary Biology /
_rG.R.H. Wright -- Chapter Two Palaeolithic Building /
_rG.R.H. Wright -- Chapter Three Neolithic Building /
_rG.R.H. Wright -- Chapter Four Mesopotamian Building /
_rG.R.H. Wright -- Chapter Five Egyptian Building /
_rG.R.H. Wright -- Chapter Six Levanto-Aegaean Building /
_rG.R.H. Wright -- Chapter Seven Achaemenid Persian Building /
_rG.R.H. Wright -- Chapter Eight Classical Greek Building /
_rG.R.H. Wright -- Chapter Nine Roman Building /
_rG.R.H. Wright -- Chapter Ten Late Antiquity-Early Christian, Byzantine, Sassanian Building /
_rG.R.H. Wright -- Chapter Eleven Conclusion /
_rG.R.H. Wright -- Plates 1–55 /
_rG.R.H. Wright -- Index /
_rG.R.H. Wright.
520 _aThe 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 mechanical operations involved; the materials, tools and equipment used. "Ancient" here means from very first beginnings (origins) to the end of Late Antiquity (i.e. about 600 A.D.); as manifested geographically in the Old World of Europe and the Middle East (not sub-Saharan Africa, Further Asia, the Far East or New World). Building (the product and the process) is limited to architectural building and looks at the technology of civil engineering only where it introduces novelties. Technology here means the system of techniques used in the process of building construction rather than the science or theory of building. The 10 chapters of this first volume are intended to give a general perspective of animal building in the light of evolutionary biology, then of building in the Palaeolithic, Neolithic, Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Levanto-Aegean, Achaemenid, Greek, Roman, Late Antique -Early Christian / Byzantine / Sassanian contexts (with a weighting towards the lesser known prehistoric beginnings and late antique end). The second volume will focus on the technical details: materials of construction, structural systems, principles of construction and forms of construction.
546 _aEnglish
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aArchitecture, Ancient.
650 0 _aBuilding.
650 0 _aScience, Ancient.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_tAncient Building Technology, Volume 1: Historical Background.
_dLeiden : Boston : Brill, 2000.
_z9789004099692
_w(DLC) 00023040
_w(OCoLC)43474807
830 0 _aTechnology and Change in History ;
_v4
830 0 _aEuropean History and Culture - Book Archive 2000-2006.
856 4 _zDOI:
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004477537
999 _c46569
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