title: The Puzzle of Ancient Man: Advanced Technology in Past Civilizations?
author:  Donald E. Chittick 
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zlib_text: IN THE 
  ANCIENT 
  WORLD 
  HENRY HODGES 
  "Lucid, fast moving, easy to read-and 
  with broad implications." 
  Carleton S. Coon, author of The Story of Man 
  
  Technology 
  1N THE Ancient 
  , A 7 ld 
  Henry
  vvOI 
  Hodges 
  with drawings by Judith Newcomer 
  BARNES 
  &.NOBLE 
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  O O K S 
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   Y O R K  
  
  Copyright © 1970 by Henry Hodges 
  Ali rights reserved. 
  This edition published by Marboro Books Corp., 
  a division of Barnes & Noble, Inc., 
  by arrangement with John Johnson, Ltd. 
  1992 Barnes & Noble Books 
  ISBN 0-88029-893-6 
  Printed and bound in the United States of America 
  M 9 8 7 6 
  
  Preface 
  �us BOOK is intended to be a straightforward account of the 
  l development of mankind' s technology from its origins to the 
  end of the period of Roman domination in the opening years of 
  the fifth century A.D. It has been written specifically with the 
  general reader in mind, and for this reason a certain amount of 
  historical and technical paraphernalia has been abandoned. Tech­
  nological terms have been 