Index
Abu Salabikh
159
access
56
Achilleus
131
actor-network theory
6
adoption
21
aeolipile
25–26, 28
Aeschylus
Prometheus Bound
13, 240–242
affordances
47, 49, 56–58
African Red Slip ware (ARS)
192
Agesilaus
173
agriculture
7
Ain Ghazal
150
Akragas
72
Alexander
175
Alexandria
Mouseion
199
Amalfi
41
(The) Americas
40
Ammianos
201–202, 216
Amphitryon
170–171
Anaximander of Miletus
148
Anatomy
303–308, 314–320, 321
anchoring
2, 6–9, 14–15, 21–22, 24, 49, 92–96, 109–111, 131, 136, 138–139, 148, 162, 174, 179–181, 190, 197, 201, 214, 217, 222–223, 234, 240, 249–253, 286–286, 300, 303, 305, 321–322
cultural
13, 222–223
cognitive
13, 284, 285, 286, 292, 294, 296, 299, 300
linguistic
285, 292–299, 300
anchoring events
15
andreia
12, 169, 171–172, 176–177
Anthedon (Euboia)
80
harbour
80
anthropology
5
Antinoupolis
11, 134–138
Antinous
135
applied arithmetic
13
Apuleius
Metamorphoses
118
aqueducts
21, 208–210, 215
archery
168
Archias of Corinth
212
Archidamus III
173
Archilochus
169
Archimedes
148, 212
Ares
170
Arezzo/Arretium
36, 187, 189
Aristotle
45, 156, 198, 215, 303, 305, 311, 319
Arithmetic
257–262, 277
Arslantepe
157
artillery
168
artillery devices in Antiquity
168–177
ashlar
90
Ashkelon
154, 157
Ashurbanipal
149
Assyria
161
Assyrians
147, 162
astronomical clock
43
Athens
31, 72, 205
Odeion of Herodes Atticus
205–207
Propylaia
72
Augustus
106
Aurelian
90
authority
249–252
automata
25–26, 223, 226, 229, 232
automation
10, 50
Avenches (Switzerland)
185
Baalbek
204–205
Babylon
150, 153
Babylonians
141
Bacon, Francis
40, 42
Balasî
149
Barbegal (mill)
201–203
Bar Kokhba revolt
137
Bassai
83
baths
21
Beersheba
150–151
belly bows
12, 34–35, 168, 171
Bendal, Edward
156
Berry, Marquis
6
Bet Yerah
150
Bibliology
138
bicycle
32–33
Bielfeldt, Ruth
47
Bithynia
205
Blake, Marion
95
blocage
4, 53, 234
Blue ocean strategy
176
book roll
11, 130–134, 136, 139, 141
double use
132–139
brick
11, 90, 93, 104–109
brick industry
109
bridges
21
Britain
192
Bronze Age
12
bucchero
36, 187
building
11
building technology
69–85
Bur, Tatiana
54
Byzantine period
78
caementa
100–104
Caesar, Julius
27, 115, 118, 134
De Bello Gallico
27
Callimachus
52
Canaan
152
Canaanites
148–149, 162
Cap Henri
124
Cardano, Girolamo
40
Carrington, Roger
95
Carthage
31
destruction of
7–8, 96
catapults
12, 34–35, 168, 171, 174
Cato
7
De agri cultura
8
Çatal Hüyük
Chalkis
169
Chan Kim, W.
176
Chemtou (Tunisia)
212
Chicago
59–60
Christensen, Clayton
176
Cicero
Ad Familiares
118
De natura deorum
118
circulation of knowledge
8, 94
classical tradition
3
Claudius
205
closure
10, 33
Coarelli, Filippo
95
codex
11, 21, 130–131, 134–141
bifolium
141
Chogha Mish
157
cognition
15
spatial
27
cognitive affinity
14
Collaert, Jan
40
Columella
8
common ground
3, 49
cultural
49, 52, 62
communicative
58
compass, magnetic
40–41
concrete
11, 21, 93, 95, 200
conservatism
92
Constantinople
216
control
56
Corinth
destruction of
8, 96
corvus
31
craft. see tekhnê
craftsman
115
cubilia
100–104
cultural archive
9
cultural authority
14
cultural ideals
12
cultural webs
229–233
cuneiform tablets
138, 152
Dan (Israel)
154
Deir el-Medina
150
DeLaine, Janet
95
Delos
Salle Hypostyle
78
Delphi
11, 69–85
East Building (Terrace of Attalos)
78
Portico of the Aetolians
78
Stoa of Attalos
78, 81
Theban Treasury
11, 69–85
Demetrios Poliorketes
175
Demetrios I of Macedon
155
diaeresis
257–258, 271
Dio Cassius
116–118, 122–123, 216
Diodorus
174–175
Diomedes
169
Dionysius I of Syracuse
174
Dionysius of Alexandria
174
Dionysius the Elder
168
De Vaucanson, Jacques
43
diffusion
21, 109
Diffusion of Innovations Theory (DOI)
173
Dilthey, Wilhelm
10, 21–28
Diodorus
170
disrupted innovation
216–217
disruptive technology
39
dissection
215, 304, 305, 306, 315–317, 318, 321
human dissection
215, 305
animal dissection
215, 305
distributed innovation
141
division, method of. see diaeresis
dona
24
doors
10, 47–63
Ebla
149, 159–160
economic growth
54
economic disaster
119
economic growth
179
economic risk
179
Edison, Thomas
21
Edwin Smith Papyrus
149
Egypt
12, 13, 133–135, 137–138, 148–153, 182, 199
Egyptians
148–149
ekkuklêma
11, 58–63
Eleusis
Telesterion
82
embodied knowledge
15
embodied skills
15
emulation
10, 40–42
enslaved people
103
encyclopedic writing
6
Ephesos
Artemision
83
Ephorus
175
Epidauros
75
Temple of Asklepios
76
Thymele
75
Epimachus of Athens
155
epistêmê
257–258, 260, 270–276.
see science
Erasistratus of Keos
304–308, 317, 319–320
Eretria
169
Esarhaddon
149
ethnoarchaeology
5
Euboea
170
Euripides
133, 170
Bacchae
52
Hercules Furens
51
Heracles
169
Eurocentrism
2
Euthytonos
168, 174
Rogers, Everett
173
failure
92
Fidenae
205
Finley, Moses
1, 4
Florence
204
Palazzo Strozzi
204
Florus
120
Fluess, Henry
156
France
191
Frieman, Catherine
94
Frontinus
175, 198
Strategemata
175
Fucine Lake
205
Gaius (Roman emperor)
119
Galen
14, 303–323
On the Anatomy of Hippocrates
306, 314–320
Method of Healing
310–311, 312, 313
On Antecedent Causes
308–309
On My Own Opinions
306
On the Doctrines of Hippocrates and Plato
307
Gallen, Philip
40
Gastraphetês
168, 171–175
gastrophetes
34–35
geometry
284–300
Gerasa
202
Sawmill
202
Germany
191
Gibson, James
47
Gioja, Flavio
41
Giuliano da Sangallo
204
Giza
150
glass
21, 35–36, 115–116, 120–122, 126, 179–182–183, 188–189, 193
blown glass
117
blowing
6, 94, 179–184, 186, 188–189, 193
cameos
117
flexible
117
molten
182, 186
unbreakable
11, 115–117, 120–124, 126
glass-making
115
global networks
12
glocalization
9, 12, 15
Graz
140–141
Greece
11, 13
Greene, Kevin
5
Guglielmo de Lorena
156
gunpowder
40
guttae
92
Hadrian
135, 137
Halley, Edmond
156
hand-bows
12, 168, 171
handloom
37
Hannibal
119, 122
harpago
31
Harappa
158
Hattusa
149
Hazor (Israel)
154
Helepolis
155, 162
Hellenistic period
science
6
Henri Christophe (Haitian King)
124
Heracles
170
Hermopolis
133
Hero of Alexandria
13, 25–26, 53–54, 148, 171–172, 223, 226–228, 284–300
Automata
25–26, 232
Belopoeica
171–172
Metrica
13, 284–300
Pneumatica
25, 53–54, 230–231
Herodotus
Histories
148
Herophilus of Chalcedon
305
Hesiod
Works and Days
42
heterogeneity, social
95
Hierapolis
200–201, 216
sawmill
200–201
Hippocrates
13, 14, 239, 303–322
Hippocratic corpus
Prognostic
239–240, 247
Hippocratic medicine
239–240, 242–247
Hieron II of Syracuse
212
Hieronymus
In Zachariam
137
Hippodamus of Miletus
150
Hippocrates:
13, 14 239
Hippocratic corpus
Prognostic
239–240, 247
Hippocratic medicine
239–240, 242–247, 303n3, 304, 313
historicism
2
hodological conception of space
27
Homer
49, 131–133, 170
Illiad
49, 50, 54, 62, 131, 137, 169
Odyssey
49, 55–58, 62, 170
human factor
22
human-thing interactions
47
Husserl, Edmund
28
hydraulic concrete
179
hydraulic infrastrauctute
208–211
Imhotep
140
improvisation
10, 42–43
India
37
inner experience
8, 22–28
innovation
11, 21, 94, 116, 120, 122, 125, 136, 139, 147–148, 161–162, 169, 173, 179–182, 197, 201, 205, 211, 214–215, 303–305, 313–314, 321–322
innovation studies
5
interpretive flexibility
32–34
invention
8, 21, 24–26, 125, 161, 180
iron
73–77
Ischali Kitîtum
159–160
Israel
150, 155
Israelites
148, 162
Itinerarium Antonini
27
Ivan the Terrible
124
Jericho
150
Jerusalem
36, 182–184
Judea
137
Jupiter
115
Kahun
150–151
Kant, Immanuel
22
kiln
187–192
Knappett, Carl
94
Knowledge
257–276
knowledge circulation
8, 11, 94
knowledge networks
97
koine
8, 14
Korres, manolis
205–206
Kuhn, Thomas
33
labor, division of
41, 102–103
Lachish (Israel)
154
La Graufenseque (France)
190–191, 193, 212
Lancaster, Lynne
95
land-surveying
12
Larsson, Katherine
6, 183
lead glazed pottery
93
Lebenswelt
28
Leonardo da Vinci
162
Leuktra, battle of
70
Levant
148
Levelling instruments
151–152
Lewit, Tamara
203
libraries
6, 7
Licinius Murena
200
lifeworld
28
limestone framework
95, 98–99
literary culture
8
lived experience
35, 179, 181
Livy
118
Lloyd, G.E.R.
26, 304
local actors
12
Lugli, Giuseppe
95
Lycus
170, 172
Machines
225–229
Magdalensberg
212
Magna Graecia
104
Mago
7–8
marble
106
Marcus Aurelius Ammianos
200
Martial
121
Martialios
305–308
Marzuolo
188–190, 192–193
mathematics
12, 151.
see geometry
Mau, August
95
Mauborgne, René
176
Mauretania
206
meaning-making
49
means of production
4
mechanics
225–229
Medieval period
78
medicine
304, 305, 306
history of
309, 311, 312, 320, 321, 322
Megarian bowls
93
Megiddo
150
Menander
54
mental phenomena
22–23
Mesopotamia
12, 13, 148–150, 152–153
Messene
77
skenotheke
77
micro-history
15, 95–96
military technology
12
mimesis
43
Mnesimachus
175
modeling
12, 197–217
modernity
1–2, 15, 41
Mogetta, Marcello
95, 99
Moscow Mathematical Papyrus
149, 152
Munera
24
Mosul
149
mythological narratives
13, 25, 222–233
Naby-akhkhe-eriba
149
natural phenomena
22–23
Near East
137, 148–150, 152, 161–162, 182
Nero
116, 120–121
the new
7, 49
Nicaea
92, 205
Niha (Lebanon)
204–205
Nile
135, 151
Nimrud
155–156
Nineveh
149, 155
Nippur
149–150, 158
noise
50–51
Nonius Datus
206
non-modern
2
Norman, Donald
47
North Africa
192
Odysseus
170
Oil press
203, 212
Olympia
77
Opisthograph
131
opus africanum. see limestone framework
opus incertum
96–104
opus latericium
105
opus quasi reticulatum
100, 103
opus reticulatum
93, 95, 100–104
opus vittatum
105–106
Ostia
95, 108, 204, 216
outer experience
10, 22–28
Ovid
Ars amatoria
118
Oxyrhynchus
133
Paestum
96
Palintonos
168, 174
Papyrus
131–133, 135, 139–141, 149
Papyrus Rhind
149, 152
paradigm (Kuhnian)
33
Paris
169
Parrhasius (painter)
43, 45
the past
37
Pausanias
170
Peterse, Kees
95, 98–99
Petronius
115–117, 119, 122, 125, 230
Pherecydes of Syrus
263–265
Philip II of Macedon
168, 175
Philo of Byzantium
82, 174–175
Belopoeica
174–175
Philoctetes
170
Philolaus of Croton
269, 279
philosophy, philosopher
303, 308, 309–311, 317, 321
Phoenicians
148
pin factory
42
Pisaeus, son of Tyrrhenus
174
Plato
147, 198–199, 257–260, 265, 269–279, 308, 310, 311, 314, 315, 318
Gorgias
279
Phaedrus
310–311
Philebus
271–272
Republic
147, 269
Statesman
257–260, 273–276
Pliny (elder)
7, 21, 43, 116–118, 120–121, 174
Pliny (younger)
92, 205
Plowing
214–215
Plutarch
120, 173
regum et imperatorum apophthegmata
173
Polybius
175
Polycleitus
175
Polyidus of Thessaly
155
Pomponius Mela
118
prediction
247–249
pre-industrial
2
prehistoric archaeology
5
pre-modern
2
printing press
40
prognosis
13, 239–242
progress
309, 311, 314, 320
project-specific problem solving
211
prospective gain
211
prototypes
42.
see modeling
proxemics
55
Polybius
93, 175
Pompeii
95–100
Forum Baths
105
House of the Faun
96
Insula Arriana Polliana
96
Odeon
105
Temple of Fortuna Augusta
107
Theatre
107
post-and-lintel system
78
pottery
terra sigillata
lead-glazed
5
Po valley
214
power dynamics
11
power relations
15–16
pozzolana
97
Probus
De notis iuris
117
Prometheus
240–254
Prototypes/Proxies
197, 215
Ptolemies
199
Pythagoras
148
Pythagoreanism
277, 279
Qanat
153
quarrying
104
reactive gain
211
relevant social groups
22, 32–34, 49
religion
54
revolving door
59
Rhodes
199
risk
11, 12, 92, 189–190, 211
road network
21, 26
Roman Empire
95
Rome
95, 122, 137, 198, 212
Antinous Obelisk
135, 137
Aurelian Wall
90–91, 108
Baths of Caracalla
108
Horrea Galbana
100
House of Augustus (Palatine)
107
Pantheon
204, 206–207
Sant’Omobono
90
Servian Wall
90–91
Temple of Iuppiter (Capitol)
90
Theatre of Marcellus
107
Theatre of Pompeius
100
Saldae
206
Samos
Heraion
83
schools. see sects
Schumpeter, Joseph
21
science
258–260, 271–273, 276, 277, 279.
see epistêmê
science and technology studies (STS)
6–7
science-scape
14
seasonality
102–103
sects
304, 305, 307–308, 313, 320, 321
semiotics
55
senate (Roman)
7–8, 118–119
Seneca
121
Quaestiones Naturales
121
Sennacherib, King of Assyria
155
Sergius Orata
200
sewers
21
Sha’ar HaGolan
Sicily
104, 173
silk manufacture
41
siphon
12, 200, 208–211
slavery
103
Smith, Adam
42
Social Construction of Technology (SCOT)
10, 11, 31–38, 49, 94, 134–136, 138–139
social constructivism
31
social semiotics
11, 131, 138
sociocultural factors
169
sociology
5
sociotechnical assemblage
58–60
Sophocles
Electra
137
Spain
192
Spalding, Charles
156
spatial cognition
27
stabilization
10, 11, 33
stagnation
1, 4
standardization
11, 100–104
Stern, Marianne
185–186
stone saw
104
Strabo
175
Strasbourg
43
stropheion
61–62
Suetonius
106, 118
Tiberius
119
Sulla
105
Syracuse
199
Tacitus
118
Annales
118
Tarataglia, Nicolas
156
tekhnê
3, 257, 258, 260, 263, 265, 267, 270–275
technology
21, 198, 217
technological determinism
32
technological failures
175
technological frame
10, 33, 35
technological innovation
133, 137–138, 141, 169, 173, 177, 179–181, 192, 216
technological progress
4, 162
technoscapes
11
teleology
60
Tell Arbid
157–158
Tell Asmar
158
Tell el-Amarna
150–151
Tell el-Arad
150
Tell es-Safi/Gath
157
temple architecture, Greek
77, 92
terra sigillata
5, 36, 93, 179–182, 187–193, 212
African Red Slip Ware
tetradrachm
31
textile production
199
Thales of Miletus
148
thauma
25, 54
Theadelphia
133
Thebes
70–71
Thebes (Luxor)
cemetery of Shaykh Abd
151
Theocritus
52
Theophrastos
83, 311
Enquiry into Plants
83
Thessalus of Tralles
311–314, 322
Thiounta quarrtes
216
Timocles
175
Heroes
175
Tiberius
11, 116–120, 122–123, 125–126
Tiglath-Plieser III
155
timber
82
tie beams
78
Torelli, Mario
95
torsion catapult
169, 174, 177
Trajan
92
translation
9
travertine
97
Trojans
170
trompe l’oeil
43
Troy
119
truss
78
tubuli
189–190
tuff
90
Tyre
155
Ur
158
Van der Straet, Jan
40
Van Kannel, Theophilus
59
Van Oyen, Astrid
5, 95
Veneto
214
Velleius Paterculus
119
Vergil
214
Via Appia
26
virtuosity
10, 43–45
Vitruvius
101, 198, 224–226
visual culture
8
vivisection
305, 317
volcanic sand
97
volcanic stone
97
water lifting devices
179
water mills
40–41, 216
water-powered saw
200, 216
weaving
13, 37, 257–277
Wheeler, Everett
176
Wine press
203, 212
wisdom
317, 321–322
wood
74–76
Wunderkammer
44–45
Xanthos
83
Letoon
83
xenia
55
Xenophon
Symposium
137
Yazd (Iran)
154
Yzeron siphon (Lyon)
211
Zammit Lupi
140–141
Zeuxis (painter)
43, 45
Zopyrus
172