Includes bibliographical references.

Vitreous materials in the Late Bronze Age Aegean : a window to the east Mediterranean / |r Caroline M. Jackson and Emma C. Wager -- |t Glass and faience production sites in New Kingdom Egypt : a review of the evidence / |r Paul T. Nicholson -- |t Crushed rock and molten salt? : some aspects of the primary glass production at Qantir/Pi-Ramesse / |r Thilo Rehren and Edgar B. Pusch -- |t The technological development of Aegean vitreous materials in the Bronze Age / |r Marina Panagiotaki -- |t Tiny, fragile, common, precious : Mycenaean glass and faience beads and other objects / |r Georg Nightingale -- |t The scientific examination fo Aegean vitreous materials : problems and potential / |r Michael Tite ... [et al.] -- |t Close encounters of interesting kinds : relief beads and glass seals : design and craftsmen / |r Helen Hughes-Brock -- |t Palace [trademark symbol] : speculations on palatial production in Mycenaean Greece with (some) reference to glass / |r John Bennet -- |t Minoan faience revisited / |r Karen Polinger Foster -- |t Colour use and symbolism in Bronze Age Crete : exploring social and technological relationships / |r Mark Peters -- |t Vitreous materials in the Bronze and Early Iron Ages : some questions of values / |r Susan Sherratt.