Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Foreword 7
4. Preface 9
5. List of Colour Plates 10
6. 1. The Emergence of Scientific Inquiry into the Past 11
7. 2. Ceramics: Materials for all reasons 16
8. 3. Looking into Glass 37
9. 4. Mining and Smelting in Antiquity 57
10. 5. Metalwork: Artifice and artistry 74
11. 6. Tracing to Source 99
12. 7. Questions of Chronology 117
13. 8. Spotting the Fakes 141
14. 9. Computing and Mathematics: Putting two and two together 158
15. 10. Computerising the Collections: The art of successful flea handling 172
16. Glossary 182
17. Index 188