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In September 2002, a second workshop on the theme of the social context of technological change was held at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge. Discussion has been the core of these meetings so far, with the aim being to relate the results of the specialist investigator to broad historical questions concerning the nature and development of ancient societies. The papers presented here address a wider context: geographically, with the inclusion of the Aegean and thematically, with papers on natural products and raw materials. The time frame remains the same in covering the Late Bronze Age/New Kingdom. The majority of the papers draw on Egyptian evidence, and illustrate a multiplicity of approaches to the problems set by ancient technologies: modelling, methodology of art history and archaeology applied to a problematic group of artefacts, integration of archaeological and textual sources, and the application of the results scientific analysis to illuminate ancient technology.

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Janine Bourriau studied Egyptology at University College, London, home of the Petrie Collection, and this led inevitably to a career as curator in other Egyptian collections. She was Keeper of Antiquities in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge until 1990 when she left to pursue research and archaeological fieldwork, full time. She excavates in Egypt every year and has published numerous books and articles on Egyptology but is best known for her work on Egyptian ceramics. Jacke Phillips was educated at the University of Toronto and wrote her thesis on Egyptian objects found in Crete. She has continued to maintain an equal enthusiasm for Egypt and the Aegean and, through fieldwork, has expanded her interests to include the Sudan and Ethiopia. She has published widely but is best known for her work on cultural links through iconography and trade.

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