Boats of the world : from the Stone Age to Medieval times /

Boats of the world : from the Stone Age to Medieval times /

Show other versions (1)
Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McGrail, Sean
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2001]
Subjects:
Boats and boating > History.
Boats, Ancient.
Ships, Medieval.
Underwater archaeology.
Electronic books.
Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. SOURCES AND THEMES
  • I.I 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
  • I.5 Presentation of the evidence
  • 2. EGYPT
  • 2.i The Delta
  • 2.2 Egypt's natural resources
  • 2.3 Seafaring
  • 2.4 The pre-Pharaonic period (c.I3,000-3I00 BC)
  • 2.5 Non-plank craft throughout Pharaonic times
  • 2.6 Planked craft of the Early Dynastic Period (c.3Ioo-2866 BC)
  • 2.7 Planked boats and ships of the Old Kingdom (c.2686-260 BC)
  • 2.8 Planked vessels of the Middle Kingdom (c.2I33-1786 BC)
  • 2.9 Planked vessels of the New Kingdom (c.1567-Io85 BC)
  • 2.Io The Late Dynastic Period (Io85-332 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-plankboats of the first and second millennia AD
  • 3.7 Harbours and trade routes in the first century AD
  • 3.8 Seafaring
  • 4. THE MEDITERRANEAN
  • 4.I 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 Be)
  • 4.6 The Early Bronze Age (c.3800-2000oo Bc)
  • 4.7 The Middle Bronze Age (c.2000-I50oo BC)
  • 4.8 The Late Bronze Age (c.I550-I00 BC)
  • 4.9 The Early Iron Age (C.I00-550 BC)
  • 4.Io The trireme of the seventh-fourth centuries BC
  • 4.1I Shipbuilding before the third century BC
  • 4.12 The Hellenistic Age (fourth-first centuries BC)
  • 4.I3 The Roman Age (mid-second century
  • Bc-fourth century AD)
  • 4.14 Propulsion, steering, and seafaring
  • 4.15 Early frame-first vessels
  • 4.16 Design of medieval frame-first ships
  • 5. ATLANTIC EUROPE
  • 5.I 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.I The Neolithic and Bronze Ages
  • 6.2 The Iron Age
  • 6.3 Graeco-Roman trade with India
  • 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.I 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.I Early population movements
  • 8.2 Early maritime contacts
  • 8.3 Water transport
  • 9. OCEANIA
  • 9.I The Oceanic migration
  • 9.2 Evidence for Oceanic water transport
  • 9.3 Water transport
  • 9.4 Early ocean-going boats
  • 9.5 Navigation
  • 10. CHINA
  • Io.I The environmental background
  • IO.2 Early water transport
  • Io.3 Early inland waterways
  • 10.4 Seagoing vessels
  • IO.5 Characteristics of the excavated ships
  • 10.6 Documentary evidence
  • 10.7 The Chinese shipbuilding tradition
  • 10.8 Other plank-boat traditions
  • 10.9 Boat and shipbuilding sites
  • 10.10 China and the world overseas
  • 10.11 Pilotage and navigation
  • 11. THE AMERICAS
  • II.I The earliest settlement
  • 11.2 Later settlements
  • II.3 European settlements in the
  • fifteenth-eighteenth centuries
  • II.4 Water transport
  • II.5 America's earliest water transport
  • 12. EARLY WATER TRANSPORT
  • 12.1 The state of research
  • 12.2 Inter-regional comparisons
  • 12.3 Boat and ship archaeology.

Similar Items