The ancient Egyptian blue pigment was developed over 5000 years ago and was used
extensively for around four millennia until its use mysteriously declined dramatically during …

The term archaeomineralogy is relatively new. It was used by Mitchell (1985) for a brief
bibliography, by Rapp (2002, 2009) for books, and by Kostov et al.(2008) and Rapp (2008) …

The chemical study of archaeological materials Archaeological Chemistry, Second Edition is
about the application of the chemical sciences to the study of ancient man and his material …

The ancient glass industry changed dramatically towards the end of the first millennium. The
Roman glassmaking tradition of mineral soda glass was increasingly supplanted by the use …

This book is an introduction to the study of artefacts, setting them in a social context rather
than using a purely scientific approach. Drawing on a range of different cultures and …

Palestine and Egypt supplied the Mediterranean and Europe with virtually all of its glass for
most of the first millennium CE. While the Muslim conquest in the 7th century saw major …

Research over the last few decades has greatly enhanced our understanding of the
production and distribution of glass across time and space, resulting in an almost …

First millennium AD glass production was divided between a relatively small number of
workshops that made raw glass and a large number of secondary workshops that fabricated …

Abstract Knowledge of glass trading in protohistoric Southern Italy has been limited by a lack
of archeometrical data available to date, preventing comparison with the well-known …

Three-hundred-and-sixty glass beads from 19 archaeological sites in southern Africa dating
between about the 8th and 16th centuries AD were analyzed using LA-ICP-MS, determining …