Technology and Urbanism in Late Bronze Age Egypt.

Cover -- Technology and Urbanism in Late Bronze Age Egypt -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Plates -- List of Abbreviations -- JOURNALS AND SERIES -- MONOGRAPHS -- 1: Introduction and Background -- 1.1 Elements of Late Bronze Age Urban Settlements and their Role as Centres of Craft Production -- 1.1.1 Previous Research on Early Urbanism and Settlements -- 1.1.2 The Roles and Functions of Some New Kingdom Egyptian Settlements -- 1.1.3 The Case Studies: New Kingdom Egyptian Royal Cities -- 1.2 Late Bronze Age Luxury Goods Industries in Urban Settlements -- 1.2.1 The Social Context, Control and Consumption of High-Status Goods -- 1.2.2 Evidence of Industrial Activity from Other Egyptian, Sudanese, and Mesopotamian Sites -- 1.2.3 Identifying Craft Production: Raw Materials, Finished Goods and Production Sites -- 1.3 Object Categories Included in This Study -- 1.4 Methods for the Analysis of Late Bronze Age Settlements -- 1.4.1 Spatial Analysis in Archaeology: a Background -- 1.4.2 Using GIS Models for the Analysis of Craft Production in Urban Settlements -- 1.4.3 Problems with the Artefactual and Spatial Data -- 1.5 Spaces of Activity: Identifying the Physical Settings of Ancient Egyptian Workshops and Factories -- 1.5.1 Definitions of the Terms Workshop and Factory -- 1.5.2 High-Temperature Technologies and Firing Structures -- 1.5.3 Workshops and Integrated Crafts in New Kingdom Urban Settlements -- 1.6 The Manufacture of High-Status Goods: A Brief Overview of the Industries -- 1.6.1 Glass Objects and Evidence of Glass-Working -- 1.6.2 Faience Objects and Evidence of Faience-Production -- 1.6.3 Metal Objects and Evidence of Metal-Working -- 1.6.4 Sculpture and Evidence of Sculpture-Production -- 1.6.5 Other Evidence of Industrial Activity.