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Online-Ressource (505 p)
ISBN:
9780199271863
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Maritime archaeology, the study of man's early encounter with the rivers and seas of the world, only came to the fore in the last decades of the twentieth century, long after its parent discipline, terrestrial archaeology, had been established. Yet there were seamen long before there were farmers, navigators before there were potters, and boatbuilders before there were wainwrights. In this book Professor McGrail attempts to correct some of the imbalance in our knowledge of the pastby presenting the evidence for the building and use of early water transport: rafts, boats, and ships
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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Abbreviations; Conventions used in the text; 1. SOURCES AND THEMES; 1.1 Maritime archaeology and boat archaeology; 1.2 Sources of evidence; 1.3 The reconstruction and interpretation of excavated vessels; 1.4 Concepts behind some of the arguments in this study; 1.5 Presentation of the evidence; 2. EGYPT; 2.1 The Delta; 2.2 Egypt's natural resources; 2.3 Seafaring; 2.4 The pre-Pharaonic period (c.13,000-3100 BC); 2.5 Non-plank craft throughout Pharaonic times; 2.6 Planked craft of the Early Dynastic Period (c.3100-2866 BC)
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2.7 Planked boats and ships of the Old Kingdom (c.2686-2160 BC)2.8 Planked vessels of the Middle Kingdom (c.2133-1786 BC); 2.9 Planked vessels of the New Kingdom (c.1567-1085 BC); 2.10 The Late Dynastic Period (1085-332 BC); 2.11 Graeco-Roman times; 3. ARABIA; 3.1 Overseas trade; 3.2 Water transport before the third millennium BC; 3.3 The third millennium BC; 3.4 Water transport in the second and first millennia BC; 3.5 Propulsion and steering in early Mesopotamia; 3.6 Sewn-plank boats of the first and second millennia AD; 3.7 Harbours and trade routes in the first century AD; 3.8 Seafaring
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4. THE MEDITERRANEAN4.1 Reconstructing past sea levels and climates; 4.2 Environmental conditions; 4.3 Overseas passages; 4.4 Exploration and navigation; 4.5 Water transport before the Bronze Age (before c.3800 BC); 4.6 The Early Bronze Age (c.3800-2000 BC); 4.7 The Middle Bronze Age (c.2000-1500 BC); 4.8 The Late Bronze Age (c.1550-1100 BC); 4.9 The Early Iron Age (c.1100-550 BC); 4.10 The trireme of the seventh-fourth centuries BC; 4.11 Shipbuilding before the third century BC; 4.12 The Hellenistic Age (fourth-first centuries BC); 4.13 The Roman Age (mid-second century BC-fourth century AD)
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4.14 Propulsion, steering, and seafaring4.15 Early frame-first vessels; 4.16 Design of medieval frame-first ships; 5. ATLANTIC EUROPE; 5.1 The early environment; 5.2 Early seafaring; 5.3 Water transport before the Bronze Age; 5.4 Bronze and Iron Age plank boats; 5.5 Vessels built Mediterranean fashion; 5.6 Romano-Celtic boats and ships; 5.7 Boats and ships of the first millennium AD; 5.8 Medieval vessels (eleventh-fourteenth centuries); 5.9 Late medieval ships; 5.10 Atlantic seafaring; 6. INDIA; 6.1 The Neolithic and Bronze Ages; 6.2 The Iron Age; 6.3 Graeco-Roman trade with India
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6.4 Seafaring in the Bay of Bengal (first-eighth centuries AD)6.5 Medieval European contacts with India; 6.6 Early Indian water transport; 6.7 Planked boats and ships up to the twentieth century; 6.8 Medieval and later navigational techniques; 7. GREATER AUSTRALIA; 7.1 The early environment; 7.2 The settlement of Greater Australia; 7.3 Water transport; 7.4 Early prehistoric water transport; 8. SOUTH-EAST ASIA; 8.1 Early population movements; 8.2 Early maritime contacts; 8.3 Water transport; 9. OCEANIA; 9.1 The Oceanic migration; 9.2 Evidence for Oceanic water transport; 9.3 Water transport
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9.4 Early ocean-going boats
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780191590535
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780199271863
Additional Edition:
Print version Boats of the World : From the Stone Age to Medieval Times
Language:
English
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