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REVIEWS R. J. FORBES, Studies in Ancient Technology, vol. VII, Leiden I963, 253 pp. This volume-the former six volumes of this useful series are reviewed in JESHO III (1960), pp. z z 7-2 3 7 -deals with I ) ancient geology, 2) ancient mining and quarry- ing, and 3) ancient mining techniques. The volume is-more than earlier volumes- concerned with the technology in Europe. The following remarks will mainly refer to the Orient. This implies that only little can be said about the first chapter, as the scientific observation of geological phenomena was not within the scope of the ancient oriental peoples, at least not in the Near East. Of course they knew the phe- nomena, such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions (cf. p. 37), but no attempts at an explanation were made. James Mellaart even supposes that the observation of a volcanic eruption is already attested in a drawing of the seventh millennium B.C. at Çatal Huyuk in southern Anatolia (The III. London News of Febr. 8, 1964, p. 197). The situation is different in respect of mineralogy (pp. 79 ff.) and petrology (pp. 232 ff.). The Babylonians, Assyrians and Egyptians in particular exactly distinguished the different
Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1964
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