The Seventy Great Inventions of the Ancient World </titleInfo> <name type="personal"> <namePart>Fagan, Brian M.</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> <role> <roleTerm type="text">Editor</roleTerm> </role> </name> <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource> <originInfo> <place> <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">5:2</placeTerm> </place> <place> <placeTerm type="text">U.S.A</placeTerm> </place> <publisher>Thames & Hudson</publisher> <dateIssued>2004</dateIssued> <issuance>monographic</issuance> </originInfo> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm> </language> <physicalDescription> <extent>304tr.</extent> <extent>hardcover, color illustrations, color photographs</extent> <extent>27 cm</extent> </physicalDescription> <abstract>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. Some of the most fundamental questions of the past are addressed. How and where did agriculture evolve? ... Later sections 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...</abstract> <note type="statement of responsibility">Brian M. Fagan, Brian M. Fagan, Anthony F. Aveni, ...</note> <subject> <topic>World History</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Civilization</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Social sciences</topic> </subject> <classification authority="ddc">609</classification> <classification authority="ddc">F151-B85</classification> <identifier type="isbn">9780500051306</identifier> <identifier type="uri">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/16502/2.jpg</identifier> <location> <url displayLabel="Cover Image">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/16502/2.jpg</url> </location> <recordInfo> <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">2025-0</recordCreationDate> <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20260119071614.0</recordChangeDate> </recordInfo> </mods>