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Glass production and Bronze Age Europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Julian Henderson
Julian Henderson*
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Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, Oxford University, 6 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3OJ
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A knowledge of pyrotechnology - the skills of creating and working with high temperatures - attested for later prehistoric Europe first by refined ceramics in the Neolithic, then by copper and bronze metallurgy. But what about the third aspect of pyrotechnology – faience, glass and other vitreous materials? New work reported in this survey shows a place for glass in the European Bronze Age.

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Antiquity , Volume 62 , Issue 236 , September 1988 , pp. 435 - 451
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1988

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