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from: Thames & Hudson
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 609.3
EAN: 9780500051306
ISBN: 0500051305
Label: Thames & Hudson
Manufacturer: Thames & Hudson
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: 2004-10
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Sales Rank: 398993
Studio: Thames & Hudson
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The Seventy Great Inventions of the Ancient World traces the course of human ingenuity and innovation from the first crude stone tools of our earliest ancestors two and a half million years ago up to the early medieval period, drawing on the very latest research and discoveries, and addressing some of the most fundamental questions about our past. The seventy articles take us on an eye-opening and unusual journey through a panoply of inventions, some fundamental, others just intriguing or bizarre - the taming of fire, cereal agriculture, eyed needles, camel saddles, chariots and contraceptives. There are six sections: Technologies; Shelter & Subsistence; Transportation; Hunting, Warfare & Sport; Art & Science; and Adorning the Person.
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Rating:  - A focus on extraordinary world inventions
Thames and Hudson's 'Seventy' series provides a blend of discipline contributions in including essays by scientists, historians and more, along with a focus on extraordinary world inventions to tackle all the technological facets which have made modern society so important. Hundreds of photos and special maps and diagrams unique to THE SEVENTY GREAT INVENTIONS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD pack a coverage which examines not just the origins of these inventions, but their lasting impact on the world. Where ... Read More
Rating:  - good choices
If you are interested in history, Fagan gives a fascinating look at how past civilisations discovered certain crucial inventions, and used these as much of the basis for their societies. Typically, standard history books might only give cursory mention of these inventions. But here Fagan gives them their proper place.
The limitation to a total of 70 is of course arbitrary. But probably as a practical necessity, he needed some means of constraining the size of his subject matter. In any ... Read More
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