03862oam 2200193z- 450 99624805870331620201027234623.0(CKB)1000000000397621(EXLCZ)99100000000039762120151123c1954uuuu -u- -engA History of Technology Volume I: From Early Times to Fall of Ancient EmpiresOxford UPPART I: BASIC SOCIAL FACTORS --1. SKILL AS A HUMAN POSSESSION /KENNETH P. OAKLEY, Senior Principal Scientific Officer, British Museum (Natural History) --2. EARLY FORMS OF SOCIETY /V. GORDON CHILDE, Professor of Prehistoric European Archaeology in the University of London --3. DISCOVERY, INVENTION, AND DIFFUSION /H. S. HARRISON --4. SPEECH AND LANGUAGE /A. SOMMERFELT, Professor of Generarl Philology in the University of Oslo --5. PRIMITIVE TIME-RECKONING /E. R. LEACH, Lecturer in Anthropology in the University of Cambridge --PART II: FOOD-COLLECTING STAGE --6. WORKING STONE, BONE, AND WOOD /L. S. B. LEAKEY, Curator of the Coryndon Memorial Museum, Nairobi, Kenya --7. GRAPHIC AND PLASTIC ARTS /L. S. B. LEAKEY --8. FORAGING, HUNTING, AND FISHING (DARYLL FORDE, Professor of Anthropology in the University of London; Director, International African Institute, London --PART III: DOMESTIC ACTIVITIES --9. ROTARY MOTION /V. GORDON CHILDE --10. FIRE-MAKING, FUEL, AND LIGHTING /H. S. HARRISON --11. CHEMICAL, CULINARY, AND COSMETIC ARTS /R. J. FORBES, Professor of Pure and Applied Sciences in Antiquity, University of Amsterdam --12. BUILDING IN WATTLE, WOOD, AND TURF /JOHN BRADFORD, Lecturer in Ethnology, University of Oxford --PART IV: SPECIALIZING INDUSTRIES --13. DOMESTICATION OF ANIMALS /F. E. ZEUNER --14. CULTIVATION OF PLANTS /F. E. ZEUNER --15. POTTERY /by the late SIR LINDSAY SCOTT, K.B.E, D.S.C. --16. TEXTILES, BASKETRY, AND MATS /GRACE M. CROWFOOT, Munro Lecturer (Primitive Weaving) at the University of Edinburgh 1951 --17. BUILDING IN BRICK AND STONE /SETON LLOYD, O.B.E., Director, British Institute of Archaeology, Ankara --18. DIFFERENTIATION OF NON-METALLIC TOOLS /S. M. COLE, Author of The Prehistory of East Africa --19. WATER-SUPPLY, IRRIGATION, AND AGRICULTURE /M. S. DROWER, M.B.E., Lecturer in Ancient History, University of London --PART V: UTILIZATION OF METALS --20. MINING AND QUARRYING /C. N. BROMEHEAD, District Geologist for South-Eastern England on the staff of the Geological Survey and Museum, London --21. EXTRACTING, SMELTING, AND ALLOYING /R. J. FORBES --22. METAL IMPLEMENTS AND WEAPONS /H. H. COGHLAN, Curator, Newbury Museum, Berks. --23. FINE METAL-WORK /HERBERT MARYON, Research Laboratory Attache and H. J. PLENDERLEITH, M.C., Keeper, Research Laboratory, British Museum --24. FINE IVORY-WORK /R. D. BARNETT, Deputy Keeper in the Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities, British Museum --25. FINE WOOD-WORK /CYRIL ALDRED, Assistant Keeper in the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh --PART VI: TRANSPORT --26. LAND TRANSPORT WITHOUT WHEELS ROADS AND BRIDGES /S. M. COLE --27. WHEELED VEHICLES /V. GORDON CHILDE --28. BOATS AND SHIPS /ADRIAN DIGBY, Keeper of Ethnography, British Museum --PART VII: THE PREPARATION FOR SCIENCE --29. RECORDING AND WRITING /S.H. HOOKE, Professor Emeritus of Old Testament Studies, University of London --30. MEASURES AND WEIGHTS /F. G. SKINNER, O.B.E., Deputy Keeper, Science Museum, London --31. ANCIENT MATHEMATICS AND ASTRONOMY /0. NEUGEBAUER, Professor of the History of Mathematics, Brown University, Rhode Island, U.S.A.Singer Charles1876-196024723BOOK996248058703316A History of Technology Volume I: From Early Times to Fall of Ancient Empires2312878UNISA