The social context of technological change: Egypt and the Near East, 1650-1550 BC: proceedings of a conference held at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, 12-14 September 2000.

The social context of technological change: Egypt and the Near East, 1650-1550 BC: proceedings of a conference held at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, 12-14 September 2000. ANDREW J. SHORTLAND (ed.). The social context of technologicalchange: Egypt and the Near East, 1650-1550 DC: proceedings of aconference held at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, 12-14 September 2000. x+273pages, 55 figures, 13 tables, 42 colour photographs. 2001. Oxford:Oxbow; 1-84217-050-3 paperback 28 [pounds sterling] & US$45. The ... context of ... change comprises 14 papers ranging fromgeneral discussions of the conditions by R. Moorey and A. & S.Sherratt to assessments of aspects of particular crafts or products. I.Shaw contributes a reappraisal of Hittite influence on Egyptianchariotry. Dr SHORTLAND argues that Egyptian glassworking owed little toMesopotamia. There are a couple of papers on Crete. Fretting fret��tingn.A hole, or worn or polished spot made on metals by abrasion or erosion. about thevagaries of archaeological samples in the Levant Levant(ləvănt`)[Ital.,=east], collective name for the countries of the eastern shore of the Mediterranean from Egypt to, and including, Turkey. , R. Sparks argues for`combining data from every possible avenue' (p. 109). A good dealof sturdy sturdyneurological disease in sheep caused by the pressure of a Taenia multiceps metacestode. Called also gid. information and sound sense is be to gleaned from theselargely empirical papers.