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The seventy great inventions of the ancient world
Also Known As: 70 great inventions of the ancient world
Table Of Contents
- Technologies: Stone tools
- Fire
- Wooden tools
- Composite tools, blades&chisels
- Bone&antler tools
- Grinders, Polishers & Polished axes
- Baskets & basketry
- Pottery
- Copper, bronze, Gold & silver
- Iron & steel
- Glass
- Textiles & weaving
- Shelter & subsistence: Houses
- Stone architecture
- Furniture
- Lighting & heating
- Water supplies & plumbing
- Bathing & sanitation
- Security
- Cereal digging-sticks to ploughs
- Irrigation
- Handmills, watermills & pumps
- Gardens
- The domestication of animals
- Cooking
- Fermented beverages
- Food preservetion
- Chocolate & tea
- Drugs & narcotics
- Transportation: Skis, Snowshoes, toboggans & skates
- Wheels & carts
- Horses & house equipment
- Tracks & roads
- Bridges & canals
- Camels & camel saddles
- Rafts & logboats
- Planked boats & ships
- Sailing vessels
- Paddles, poles & oars
- Navigation, harbours & lighthouses
- Hunting, warfare & sport: Animal & fish traps, fishing nets
- Spearthrowers, boomerangs & bows & arroes
- Swords, daggers & war spears
- Armour, hemets & shields
- Fortifications
- Siege engines, catapults & crossbows
- chariots & cavalry
- Galleys & warships
- Ball games & competitive sport
- Board games
Subject
History / Inventions / Civilization, Ancient
Details
Published
New York : Thames & Hudson, 2004
Language
English
Material
304 p.
ISBN
0500051305
Location
TCDC Bangkok - General Collection
TCDC Bangkok - Closed Stack2
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