[LMB] Ages, (or Little House with Green Gables in Oklahoma) mostly OT:

[Paula Lieberman]

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> Jason Long <sturmvogel_66 at hotmail.com>
>
>>> I'm really not so sure that frontier women married
>>>  as early as seems to be believed.
>
>>My basis has always been the Little House books
>>...  the  1870s of Laura Ingalls Wilder's childhood
>> is an appropriate tech level  to compare to WGW.
>
> Steam locomotives and riverboats criss-crossing
> entire continents, and  all that?  Oooo-kay.
>
> I'm having a harder time with time all the time, myself.
> Persians and  Romans and Greeks, oh my! Was it bronze before
> porcelean or the other way  'round?

Porcelain was used in China, there were clay things in the west, but fine 
china, was a product from East Asia.   Bronze and porcelain were two 
different technologies and materials, both required use of heating and 
mixing materials and such, but one got used for weapons and some utensil and 
cloakpins and such, the other got used for tableware and for urns and 
such... clay containers were cheaper to make than bronze, but also didn't 
have as much resistance to surviving impact.... ships in the Mediterranean 
used clay vessels for containing liquids and even solid stuff (I can;t 
remember the name of the two-handed big made-of-clay vessels found in large 
quantity in the oldest ancient shipwrecks found on the bottom of the 
Meditterranean).

Chinese bronze casting technology was far advances over European bronze 
technology.