IN FLUX: Glass, Technology, and the Glassmaking Industry of the Middle Byzantine and Early Islamic (8th-12th centuries CE) Eastern Mediterranean - the Archaeology and Archaeometry of a High Temperature Craft

Swan, Carolyn

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Year:: 2012
Contributor:: Swan, Carolyn (creator); Cherry, John (Director); Alcock, Susan (Director); Bestock, Laurel (Reader); Straughn, Ian (Reader); Rehren, Thilo (Reader); Brown University. Archaeology and the Ancient World (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: glassmaking; archaeological science; post-Roman; Middle Byzantine; Early Islamic; Eastern Mediterranean; Glass; Technology; Industries; Archaeology; Archaeometry; Material culture; Middle East
Extent:: xxxii, 478 p.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7301/Z0FT8JBH

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Abstract:: My research seeks to clarify the nature of the glassmaking industry in the Eastern Mediterranean region during the 8th-12th centuries CE. Studying glass assemblages from the sites of Ḥiṣn al-Tīnāt southern Turkey and Ayla in southern Jordan, this project investigates the artistic and technological impact of contemporary sociocultural and political change on Byzantine and Early Islamic material culture. My work combines traditional art historical and archaeological methods (typo-chronological analysis of vessel shapes and styles) with strategies borrowed from the sciences (chemical analysis of the glass fabric itself) in order to build a richer understanding of glass technology and craft production. This study demonstrates that the qualities of glass as a material and artistic medium have a critical effect upon the creation, use, and perception of glass as an object; however, while indeed bounded by certain material parameters, the structural and chemical qualities of glass can in some ways still be shaped by economic networks and technological systems.
Notes:: Thesis (Ph.D. -- Brown University (2012)

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Swan, Carolyn, "IN FLUX: Glass, Technology, and the Glassmaking Industry of the Middle Byzantine and Early Islamic (8th-12th centuries CE) Eastern Mediterranean - the Archaeology and Archaeometry of a High Temperature Craft" (2012). Graduate Research Theses and Dissertations. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://doi.org/10.7301/Z0FT8JBH

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