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Stone Age Sailors
Author | : Alan H Simmons |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2016-06-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781315419718 |
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Over the past decade, evidence has been mounting that our ancestors developed skills to sail across large bodies of water early in prehistory. In this fascinating volume, Alan Simmons summarizes and synthesizes the evidence for prehistoric seafaring and island habitation worldwide, then focuses on the Mediterranean. Recent work in Melos, Crete, and elsewhere-- as well as Simmons’ own work in Cyprus-- demonstrate that long-distance sailing is a common Paleolithic phenomenon. His comprehensive presentation of the key evidence and findings will be of interest to both those interested in prehistory and those interested in ancient seafaring.
Stone Age Sailors
Author | : Alan H Simmons |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2016-06-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781315419725 |
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Over the past decade, evidence has been mounting that our ancestors developed skills to sail across large bodies of water early in prehistory. In this fascinating volume, Alan Simmons summarizes and synthesizes the evidence for prehistoric seafaring and island habitation worldwide, then focuses on the Mediterranean. Recent work in Melos, Crete, and elsewhere-- as well as Simmons’ own work in Cyprus-- demonstrate that long-distance sailing is a common Paleolithic phenomenon. His comprehensive presentation of the key evidence and findings will be of interest to both those interested in prehistory and those interested in ancient seafaring.
Archaeology and History in Sardinia from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages
Author | : Stephen L. Dyson,Robert J. Rowland, Jr. |
Publsiher | : UPenn Museum of Archaeology |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1934536024 |
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With one of the richest archaeological records and most complicated histories in the Mediterranean, Sardinia provides an important laboratory for studying the interaction of indigenous societies and outside forces in a partly isolated geographical context. Stephen L. Dyson and Robert J. Rowland, Jr. use both material culture and written documents to reconstruct the social and economic processes of an island society that showed both cultural creativity and continuity but responded to invasions from the Phoenicians through the Romans to the Aragonese. This first accessible reconstruction of island archaeology provides a balanced picture of the sweep of Sardinian history.
Boats of the World
Author | : Sean McGrail |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 506 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Boats and boating |
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 werefarmers, 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.
Sailing Rock Art Boats
Author | : Boel Bengtsson |
Publsiher | : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Boats and boating in art |
ISBN | : 1407315692 |
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This bookargues that the use of sail as a complement to paddling would have formed anintegral part of the development of centres of power in the early ScandinavianBronze Age, permitting more frequent communication, and thus helping to expand,maintain and control power. This argument stands in sharp contrast to thecurrent belief that the introduction of the sail in the North occurred betweenthe 7th or 8th and the 10th centuries AD. This reassessment of the potentialtiming and development in the use of the sail derives mainly from anexamination of the Bronze Age rock art (c. 1800-500 BC) in southern Scandinaviacontaining imagery of boats with attributes that can be interpreted as mastsand sails, in combination with experimental sail trials in Bronze Age typeboats, and using early sailing in ancient Egypt and Oceania as a backdrop.
The Earliest Ships
Author | : Robert Gardiner,Arne Emil Christensen |
Publsiher | : Brassey's |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : UOM:39015037493221 |
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This volume takes the development of the most primitive forms of boats - rafts, skin boats and dugouts, for example - which developed ultimately into ships for trade, commerce and war. It summarizes the current state of knowledge, and examines the nature of archaeological evidence.
Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Sailors in the Aegean and the Near East
Author | : Adamantios Sampson |
Publsiher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2019-08-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781527537927 |
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Old theories for the origins of domesticated animals and plants from the East and the spread of farming and husbandry in Europe have affected generations of archaeologists, resulting in several theories of migrations of populations. However, there is no evidence in the archaeological record of population movements from the East, while so far the contribution of the pre-Neolithic populations of the Aegean has been neglected. This book shows that Mesolithic hunter-gatherers developed a dense maritime network on the Aegean islands and contributed to the Neolithisation process, transferring domesticated species from the East to the Aegean through Cyprus. Their great specialization in fishing and long journeys was due to a tradition that had roots in the Palaeolithic period. This text is based on practical experience from excavations and surface surveys over the past 25 years in Mesolithic and Neolithic sites in the Aegean Basin and continental Greece.
Boats of the World
Author | : Seán McGrail |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:475660256 |
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