From mine to microscope : advances in the study of ancient technology / edited by Andrew J. Shortland, Ian C. Freestone and Thilo Rehren.

Includes bibliographical references.

Lead frits in Islamic and Hispano-Moresque glazed productions -- The emergence of ceramic technology and its evolution as revealed with the use of scientific techniques -- Neolithic pottery from Switzerland: raw materials and manufacturing processes -- Low-tech in Amalfi: provenance and date assignation of medieval Middle-Eastern pottery by application of eyeball technique -- Some implications of the use of wood ash in Chinese stoneware glazes of the 9th-12th centuries -- The Hispano-Moresque tin glazed ceramics produced in Teruel, Spain: a technology between two historical periods, 13th to 16th c. AD -- Beads beyond number: faience from the 'Isis Tomb' at Vulci, Italy -- Egyptian blue in Greek painting between 2500 and 50 BC -- Links between glazes and glass in mid-2nd millennium BC Mesopotamia and Egypt -- The fish's tale: a foreign glassworker at Amarna? -- Ancient copper red glasses: investigation and analysis by microbeam techniques -- The provenance of archaeological plant ash glasses -- Microanalysis of glass by Laser Induced Plasma Spectroscopy -- New thoughts on niello -- From mine to microbe - the Neolithic copper melting crucibles from Switzerland --

Across the wine dark seas... sailor tinkers and royal cargoes in the Late Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean -- What a long, strange trip it's been: lead isotopes and archaeology -- The juice of the pomegranate: processing and quality control of alumen in antiquity, and making sense of Pliny's Phorimon and Paraphoron -- Finding the Floorstone -- 'Sweet waste': The industrial waste from the medieval sugar refinery at the Tawahin es-Sukkar in Jordan.