Dear listmembers,
>> At 10:57 12-11-98 PST, Ned Rehder wrote:
>> >>
>> >Evidence for the early use of bellows is indeed scant. There is
>> > good evidence that they were introduced into Egypt by the Hyksos,
>> >but before that very little. They were apparently never used in
>> >precolumbian South America. I will be very interested in any
>> >positive evidence of early use anywhere.
>> > Ned.
On 18 Nov 1998 09:10:13 I wrote:
>> I'd be very interested in the evidence you mention of bellows being
>> introduced into Egypt by the Hyksos. Could you please let me know?
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Jeannette Drost
>>
To which Ned Rehder answered:
>The timing of the introductionof bellows to Egypt is shown by tomb
>reliefs of metallurgical subjects. They show blowpipes before and
>bellows after the Hyksos interval. More specifically, Zwicker in 1969
>narrowed the time down to the first quarter of the second millennium
>B.C. Unfortuneately I now cannot find in my files the specific journal
>ocation of the statement.
> Ned
>
>
Thank you for this information, Ned.
Perhaps someone else on the list knows the article that Ned mentions? Would
they please share this information with me?
Jeannette Drost
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