Boats of the World : From the Stone Age to Medieval Times
by
Sean McGrail
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0199271860
ISBN-13
9780199271863
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 8th, 2004
Print length
504 Pages
Weight
1,252 grams
Dimensions
27.50 x 21.80 x 2.70 cms
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This is the first comprehensive study of the archaeology of rafts, boats, and ships from the Stone Age to Medieval times. All the regions of the world are covered, from Atlantic Europe and the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean, the China Sea, and the Pacific.
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 past by presenting the evidence for the building and use of early water transport: rafts, boats, and ships.
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