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The Seventy Great Inventions Of The Ancient World

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Stone choppers, eyed needles, camel saddles, chariots, and contraceptives: the past is paved with remarkable inventions. The recent book on this popular series takes us on an eye-opening and abnormal journey through early human innovationsùsome fundamental and others intriguing or unusual. An international team of scientists, archaeologists, and historians reveals seventy of essentially the most abnormal inventions, from two-and-a-half million years ago as much as the early medieval period.

The book begins with the basic technologies of stone, fire, woodworking, ceramics, metallurgy, glass, and weaving. We watch Stone Age flint-knappers at work and look over the shoulders of early metalworkers as they fabricate glittering ornaments in copper and gold. One of the vital most fundamental questions of the past are addressed. How and where did agriculture evolve? How did Romans and others heat and plumb their dwellings? What roles did cooking, food preservation, and fermentation play within the development of ancient cuisine? How did the wheel and cart change human life? When did the first roads appear, and when did long-distance seafaring begin?

Later sections take a look at the origins of hunting, war and sport, art and science, and personal adornment. Weapons of war evolved from spears, bows, and arrows to swords, shields, catapults, and crossbows. The book examines the earliest human art traditions – body painting and tattooing – and traces the beginning of writing, the early use of codes and ciphers, and the origins of calendars and astronomy.

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