Archaeology

Glass Making in the Greco-Roman World

Results of the archglass project

Patrick Degryse (ed.)

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patrick degryse is Professor of Archaeometry at the department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and director of the Centre for Archaeological Sciences at KU Leuven. His main research efforts focus on the use of mineral raw materials in ancient times.

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n isbn 978 94 6270 007 9 n November 2014 n Hardback, 16 x 24 cm n 208 pp. n English n Studies in Archaeological Sciences 4 New insights into the trade and processing of mineral raw materials for glass making This book presents a reconstruction of the Hellenistic-Roman glass industry from the point of view of raw material procurement. Within the erc funded archglass project, the authors of this work developed new geochemical techniques to provenance primary glass making. They investigated both production and consumer sites of glass, and identified suitable mineral resources for glass making through geological prospecting. Because the source of the raw materials used in the manufacturing of natron glass can be determined, new insights in the trade of this material are revealed. While eastern Mediterranean glass factories were active throughout the Hellenistic to early Islamic period, western Mediterranean and Italian sources also supplied the Mediterranean world with raw glass in early Roman times. By combining archaeological and scientific data, the authors develop new interdisciplinary techniques for an innovative archaeological interpretation of glass trade in the Hellenistic-Roman world, highlighting the development of glass as an economic material.

Contributors Sara Boyen (KU Leuven), Dieter Brems (KU Leuven), Florence Cattin (KU Leuven), Mike Carremans (KU Leuven), Veerle Devulder (KU Leuven), Thomas Fenn (KU Leuven), Monica Ganio (KU Leuven), Rebecca Scott (KU Leuven), Frank Vanhaecke (Ghent University)

Previously published in the series Studies in Archaeological Sciences

n Handheld XRF for Art and Archaeology Aaron N. Shugar, Jennifer L. Mass (eds) €45,00 / £39.00, isbn 978 90 5867 934 5, paperback – also available as eBook (eisbn 978 94 6166 069 5) n Lapis Lazuli from the Kiln. Glass and Glassmaking in the Late Bronze Age Andrew Shortland € 69,50 / £60.50, isbn 978 90 5867 691 7, hardback

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