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Carney, T. F.The shape of the past : models and antiquity;editorial assistants, A. J. Smith, C. C.Verscheure. Lawrence, Kan. : Coronado Press, 1975.

Daumas, M., ed.A history of technology and invention. Progress through the ages.New York:

Crown Publishers, 1970. Three volumes.Forbes, R.J.Studies in ancient technology.2d rev. ed. Leiden: Brill, 1964. UCSC ScienceT15.F728 1964 Library has: v. 1-9.

Gille, B.History of techniques.New York: Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, 1986.Two vols. ET ofHistoire des techniques.Paris: Encyclop&eacut edie de la Pliade,1978.

Landels, J. G.Engineering in the Ancient World.London: Chatto and Windus, 1978. Chapters 6and 7 esp., on sea and land.

Lemonnier, P.Elements for an anthropology of technology.Ann Arbor, MI: Museum ofAnthropology, 1992.

Pacey, A.Technology in world civilization: a thousand-year history.Oxford, UK: BasilBlackwell, 1990.

Singer, C.J.; and others.A History of Technology.Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1954-84. First 2 volumes.

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MESOPOTAMIAMoorey, P.R.S.

Ancient Mesopotamian Materials and Industries.Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994.Postgate, J. N.

Early Mesopotamia: Society and Economy at the Dawn of History.London and

New York: Routledge, 1994.Potts, D. T.Mesopotamian Civilization: The Material Foundations.Ithaca, New York: CornellUniversity Press, 1997.

Snell, Daniel C.Life in the Ancient Near East, 3100-332 BCE.New Haven and London: YaleUniversity Press, 1997. Chapters are on succeeding periods, each chapter dealingwith the people of the area, population distribution, social groups, family structure,women, work management, land and agriculture, animal management, crafts, tradeand money, government and the economy.

Von Soden, W.

The Ancient Orient. An Introduction to the Study of the Ancient Near East. GrandRapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1994. Of interest for our purposes are chapters 7, onnutrition and agriculture, ch. 8 on artisanry, ch. 9 on trade and commerce, and ch.11 on Sumerian and Babylonian Science.

EGYPTBagnall, R.S.

Egypt in Late Antiquity.Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. Pp. xii, 370.$29.95.

ISRAEL AND PALESTINESafrai, Ze'ev.

The Economy of Roman Palestine.London and New York: Routledge, 1994.

(settlement patterns; Modes of production, meaning agriculture, crafts, services;trade, transportation and means of payment; organization of farming;autarcic/closed or open economy?)

GREECE AND ROMEAdkins, I.L.

Handbook to Life in Ancient Greece.In Reference area in McHenry Library atUCSC: DF77.A35 1997ref. Brief and very intersting articles providing a wonderfulintroduction to many topics, for instance on writing, calendars, food and drinks,etc...

Carcopino, J.Daily life in ancient Rome.Harmondsworth, 1941.

Greene, K.The Archaeology of the Roman Economy.Berkeley: University of California, 1986.Humphrey, J.W.; J.P. Oleson; and A.N. Sherwood.

Greek and Roman Technology: A Sourcebook.London and New York: Routledge,1998.

Lewis, N.; and M. Reinhold.Roman civilization; selected readings.New York, Columbia University Press,1951-1955. Series title: Records of civilization, sources and studies no. 45.

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White, K. D.Country life in classical times.Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1977.

White, K. D.Greek and Roman Technology.Ithaca: Cornell University, 1984.

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TOOLS, MACHINES, ENGINEERINGAvitsur, S.

Man and his work. Historical atlas of tools and workshops in the Holy Land.Jerusalem, 1976.

Childe, G.

The story of tools.London, 1944. It seems that the history of tools remains adesideratum. So also a history of the techniques of agriculture (as surprising as itseems).

Cotterell, B.; and J. Kamminga.Mechanics of pre-industrial technology: an introduction to the mechanics of ancient

and traditional material culture.Cambridge; New York: Cambridge UniversityPress, 1990. UCSC Science QC125.2.C68 1990

Drachmann, A. G. (Aage Gerhardt).The mechanical technology of Greek and Roman antiquity, a study of the literary

sources.Copenhagen, Munksgaard; Madison, University of Wisconsin Pr ess, 1963.UCSC Science QC122.D7

Gille, B.Les mcaniciens grecs. La naissance de la technologie.Paris: Le Seuil, 1980.Landels, J.G.

Engineering in the ancient world.London, 1978.Sperber, D.

Material culture in Eretz-Israel during the Talmudic period.Jerusalem, 1993.White, K. D.

Agricultural implements of the Roman world.London: Cambridge University Press,1967.

TRANSPORTATION, TRAVEL, ROADS, NAVIGATIONAndr, J.-M.; and M.-F. Baslez.

Voyages dans l'antiquit.1993.Casson, L.Ancient trade and society.Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1984.

Casson, L.Ships and seafaring in ancient times.Austin: Universisty of Texas Press, 1994.

Casson, L.Ships and seamanship in the ancient world.Princeton, N.J., Princeton UniversityPress, 1971.

Casson, L.The ancient mariners : seafarers and sea fighters of the Mediterranean in ancient

times.2nd ed. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1991.Casson, L.

Travel in the ancient world.Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.UCSC McHenry G88.C34 1994

Chevallier, R.Roman roads.Berkeley: UC Press, 1976. English translation ofLes voies romaines.Paris: A. Colin, 1972.

Lewis, M.J.T."The Origins of the Wheelbarrow," Technology and Culture 35 (1994), 453-754.

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Meijer, Fik; and Onno van Nijf.Transport and society in the ancient world.London and New York: Routledge,1992.

WARHanson, V.

Warfare and Agriculture in Classical Greece.Pisa: Giardini, 1983.Hanson, V.The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical Greece.New York: Knopf,1989.

Hanson, V.Hoplites: The Classical Greek Battle Experience.London, NY: Routledge, 1991.

Parker, G., ed.The Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare. The Triumph of the West.Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1995. A general overview. Antiquityarticles by V. Hanson.

WATER, IRRIGA