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15 - Glass

from Part V - Materials Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 December 2019

By
Andrew J. Shortland  and
Thilo Rehren
Edited by
Michael P. Richards  and
Kate Britton
Michael P. Richards
Affiliation:
Simon Fraser University, British Columbia
Kate Britton
Affiliation:
University of Aberdeen
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Summary

Human produced glass was first regularly produced in Egypt and the Near East in the sixteenth century BC. It is often brightly coloured and was of high value, rating as a precious stone. As such, its study has the potential to not only give valuable information about technological ability and transfer, but also to map out exchange networks, especially if the sites where the glass was made can be identified and characterised. Therefore, glass is an important part of the archaeological assemblage, and an increasing amount of work has been devoted to it, especially over the last twenty or so years (Rehren and Freestone 2015).

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Archaeological Science
An Introduction
 , pp. 347 - 364
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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