The composition of Late Bronze Age Egyptian faience and glass is thought to reflect the
composition of the raw material used in their production, particularly plant ash. This paper …

Archaeological chemistry is a subject of great importance to the study and methodology of
archaeology. This comprehensive text covers the subject with a full range of case studies …

The microstructures and chemical compositions of some 55 Egyptian blue and green frit
samples from New Kingdom Egypt and 15th century BC Mesopotamia are determined using …

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 …

In this new edition of Experiments in Egyptian Archaeology, Denys A. Stocks introduces
further experimental research on stoneworking in Ancient Egypt through archaeological and …

This chapter [1] examines the origins of the glass industry in ancient Egypt and attempts to
assess, independently of the recent work at Amarna, whether or not it is likely that there …

A collection of 30 faience beads recovered from the Iron Age necropolis of Vinha das
Caliças 4 (Beja, Portugal) was analyzed in order to identify their production technology and …

Early vitreous materials include homogeneous glass, glassy faience, faience and glazed
stones. These materials evolved slowly into more specialized substances such as enamels …

A series of glassmaking experiments have been done to explore the influence, if any, of the
presence of alkali chlorides in a typical soda-lime-silica glass batch on the final composition …

The beginning of the 1st millennium BC was one of the key periods in the development of
glassmaking technologies, characterized by the supplanting of plant-ash technology by …