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Much of it depends, like any historic examination, on documentary matter, though that is sparse for the early civilizations because of the general lack of curiosity in technology on the part of scribes and chroniclers. For these societies, due to this fact, and for the many millennia of earlier unrecorded history by which slow however substantial technological advances were made, it is necessary to rely closely upon archaeological evidence. The historian of technology should be prepared to make use of all these sources, and to name upon the skills of the …