6)rc+Industrial+&+Artistic+Technology

__Industial and Artistic Technology__ __Artistic Technology__ (Reece 40-45)  __Industrail Technology__ (Shutter, 34-39)
 * In Acient civilizations people divided up jobs and developed special craft skills
 * learned from youth
 * Cylinder Seals (3-4 centimeters) stone which made it very hard to engrave yet they were very detailed
 * Cylinder Seals rolled across a piece of clay, printing the picture on the seal in reverse (lowest parts on the clay were the highest parts on the seal). Carved “inside out”
 * Cylinder Seals were all different (very individual) sometimes a signature they were worn around necks.
 * “GRANULATION” tiny balls of gold which are made then fixed onto another object (rings)
 * glue was made out of boiled fish bones, a copper extract and water. (heated to join together)
 * not until 1800s the Europeans discovered this
 * there was not much glass found from the Elamite times
 * small bits of glass were found by Archaeologist. Mainly from beads of Jewelery, tiny vases and bottles (blue decorated with white and yellow)
 * casting two different metals together was a hard task due to no thermometers. Hard to tell when the different metals were heated (rely on colour, heat of fire in furnace, and state of metal being heated
 * Archaeologists found jar of equipment from a jeweler
 * found in Larsa (city lived in by Sumarians however taken over by the Elamites)
 * <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS, cursive; text-align: left;">in jar: tweezers, engraving tools, small anvil and hammer (beat gold into thin flat sheets, stone for smoothing metal.


 * <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS, cursive;">Elamite boats were made out of reeds that were tied together
 * <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS, cursive;">painted out side boat with bitumen, making them more water proof
 * <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS, cursive;">Archaeologist found tablets with wheeled vehicles
 * <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS, cursive;">carts and chariots made out of leather and wood
 * <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS, cursive;">Archaeologists have also found some pieces of wheels made out of wood and solid gold
 * <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS, cursive;">wheels made up of three pieces of wood held together with fixings across the middle

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