Author: K Krishna Murthy
Publisher: Sundeep Prakashan
Year: 1998
Language: English
Pages: 198
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8175740051
Description
This imposing book Archaeology of Things has delved deep in the study of the prehistoric world, and the great ancient civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, and India. Dr. Murthy with his immaculate scholarship and scientific sensitivity has marshalled the study of the subjects like pottery, bronze, iron, glass, dwellings, musical instruments, sport devices, writing materials, medical lore and the like of the ancient period. The acumen of the book is highly enriched by the addition of an appendix--man, at the end. Needless to say, this book with its mine of information, generates enormous interest and inspires further research in the same lines.
This volume is the outcome of Prof. Krishna Murthy's three-and-a-half decades of dedicated industry and indefatigable research. This book is certain to become an authoritative, and major archaeological tome for all time to come.
Contents
PREFACE
1. Pottery and Potter's Wheel
2. China Ware
3. Axe
4. Bronze
5. Iron
6. Sickle
7. Saw
8. Glass
9. House
10. Water-closets
11. Wells
12. Flute
13. Harp
14. Trumpet
15. Wheel
16. Lathe
17. plough
18. Dice
19. Chess
20. Coins
21. Weights and Measures
22. Rope
23. Lamp
24. Razor
25. Button
26. Soap
27. Silk
28. Writing
29. Clay Tablets
30. Paper
31. Printing
32. Ink
33. Stylus-Pen
34. Book
35. Medicine
36. anaesthetics
37. Artificial limb
38. False teeth
39. Glass eye
40. Surgical Instruments
APPENDIX-MAN