Format:
XIV, 330 S.
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Ill., graph. Darst., Kt
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29 cm
ISBN:
190293752X
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9781902937526
Series Statement:
McDonald Institute monographs
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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pt. 1. Introduction --- The origins and development of seafaring : towards a global approach
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pt. 4. Holocene circumstances and incentives of seafaring ; Pacific voyaging and settlement : issues of biogeography and archaeology, canoe performance and computer simulation
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pt. 2. Inferences of early seafaring ; Neptune's children : the evolution of human seafaring
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Earliest coastal settlement, marine palaeoeconomies and human dispersal : the Africa-Arabia connection
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Pleistocene migration and colonization in the Indo-Pacific region
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Pleistocene Sahul and the origins of seafaring
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Seafaring intensity and island-mainland interaction along the Pacific Coast of North America
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The first Argonauts : towards the study of the earliest seafaring in the Mediterranean
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pt. 3. The development of boats and seafaring ; The global origins of seagoing water transport
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Aspects of the origin of Atlantic and Baltic seafaring
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Prehistoric Pacific population movements
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Seafaring and the development of cultural complexity in Northeast Asia : evidence from the Japanese archipelago
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Demographic imperatives for island colonists
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Island colonization and trade in the Mediterranean
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The social and environmental context of Neolithic seafaring in the Persian Gulf
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A question of life and death? Seafaring and abandonment in the Mediterranean and Pacific Islands
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Conceptual modelling of seafaring, climate and early European exploration and settlement of the North Atlantic islands
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pt. 5. Sailing and society ; The sea and the land : maritime connections in the chiefly landscape of Tonga
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Evidence for the Austronesian voyages in the Indian Ocean
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"Ships a-sail from over the rim of the sea" : voyaging, sailing and the making of Mediterranean societies. c. 3500-800 BC
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Seafaring on the Atlantic seaboard
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"Horses are strong at sea" : the liminal aspect of the maritime cultural landscape
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Rounding up the usual suspects : causation and the Viking Age diaspora
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pt. 6. Conclusion ; Histories of global seafaring : a discussion
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Seeschifffahrt
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Vor- und Frühgeschichte
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Unterwasserarchäologie
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Konferenzschrift
