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Glass Making History and Archaeology

A Bibliography of the History of Glass Making

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Blown Glass Bottle from Sidon (Lebanon)

Blown Glass Bottle from Sidon (Lebanon)

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Degryse P, and Schneider J. 2008. Pliny the Elder and Sr-Nd isotopes: tracing the provenance of raw materials for Roman glass production. Journal of Archaeological Science 35(7):1993-2000.

Eramo, Giacomo 2006 The glass-melting crucibles of Derrière Sairoche (1699-1714 AD, Ct. Bern, Switzerland): a petrological approach. Journal of Archaeological Science 33:440-452.

Freestone, I. C., M. Ponting, and M. J. Hughes 2002 The origins of Byzantine glass from Maroni Petrera, Cyprus. Archaeometry 44 (2):257-272.

García-Heras, M., J. Ma. Rincón, A. Jimeno, and M. A. Villegas 2005 Pre-Roman coloured glass beads from the Iberian Peninsula: a chemico-physical characterisation study. Journal of Archaeological Science 32(5):727-738.

Greene, Kevin 2007 Late Hellenistic and Early Roman Invention and Innovation: The Case of Lead-Glazed Pottery. American Journal of Archaeology 111 (4):653-671.

Kato N, Nakai I, and Shindo Y. 2010. Transitions in Islamic plant-ash glass vessels: on-site chemical analyses conducted at the Raya/al-Tur area on the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt. Journal of Archaeological Science 37(7):1381-1395.

Kato N, Nakai I, and Shindo Y. 2009. Change in chemical composition of early Islamic glass excavated in Raya,Sinai Peninsula, Egypt: on-site analyses using a portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometer. Journal of Archaeological Science 36(8):1698-1707.

MacFarlane, Alan and Gerry Martin 2004 A World of Glass. Science 305:1407-1408. Free online

Paynter, Sarah 2006 Analyses of colourless Roman glass from Binchester, County Durham. Journal of Archaeological Science 33:1037-1047.

Rehren, Thilo and Edgar B. Pusch 2005 Late Bronze Age Glass Production at Qantir-Piramesses, Egypt. Science 308:1756-1758.

Roe, M., et al. 2006 Characterisation of archaeological glass mosaics by electron microscopy and X-ray microanalysis. Journal of Physics: Conference Series 26:351-354.

Schibille N, Marii F, and Rehren T. 2007. Characterization and provenance of late antique window glass from the Petra church in Jordan. Archaeometry 50 (4):627-642.

Shortland, A. J. 2007 Who were the glassmakers? Status, theory and method in mid-second millennium glass production. Oxford Journal of Archaeology 26(3):261-274.

Shortland, Andrew, Nick Rogers, and Katherine Eremin 2007 Trace element discriminants between Egyptian and Mesopotamian Late Bronze Age glasses. Journal of Archaeological Science 34781-789.

Shortland A, Schachner L, Freestone I, and Tite M. 2006. Natron as a flux in the early vitreous materials industry: sources, beginnings and reasons for decline. Journal of Archaeological Science 33(4):521-530.

Silvestri, A., G. Molin, and G. Salviulo 2008 The colourless glass of Iulia Felix. Journal of Archaeological Science 35(2):331-341.

Šmit, Ž., K. Janssens, O. Schalm, and M. Kos 2004 Spread of façon-de-Venise glassmaking through central and western Europe. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms 213:717-722.

Stern, E. M. 1999 Roman Glassblowing in a Cultural Context. American Journal of Archaeology 103(3):441-484.

Tite, M. S., P. Manti, and A. J. Shortland 2007 A technological study of ancient faience from Egypt. Journal of Archaeological Science 34:1568-1583.

Tite, M. S., et al. 2006 The composition of the soda-rich and mixed alkali plant ashes used in the production of glass. Journal of Archaeological Science 33:1284-1292.

Verità, Marco, Alessandro Renier, and Sandro Zecchin 2002 Chemical analyses of ancient glass findings excavated in the Venetian lagoon. Journal of Cultural Heritage 3 261-271.

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