CLCV 2305 Lecture 5: CLCV2305 - Lecture 5
25 Jan 2017
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Video from crete should be up by wednesday: bonus marks on quiz for video. Most early storage jars had an open mouth. You can use fire to crack a large piece of rock off to use as a lid across large storage jars. Some gray rocks with white discolorations that indicate breaking free through heating. Heated stone with drops of cold water: glass and ceramics. Wont become liquid when heated but will become more of a paste. More of a glaze than a glass. At the same time we see development of writing. Export of glass from egypt and commodification of glass. You can not tax before money so things are expressed in monetary equivalent. Easy way to tax was a series of monopolies. Egyptian pharos monopoly on glass identified glass as luxury goods with exportability. Because there was uneven terrain and no springs or axle grease, transporting glass was tricky.
