Boats of the world : from the stone age to medieval times / Seán McGrail.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McGrail, Sean, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Boats, Ancient.

Boats, Prehistoric.

Ships, Medieval.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (505 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Boats of the World comprehensively deals with the archaeology of rafts, boats, and ships from the stone age to medieval times. It covers all regions of the world, from Atlantic Europe and the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean, China Sea, and the Pacific.

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.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2002.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [441]-465) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

9781383004670

1383004676

9780198144687

0198144687

9780191590535

0191590533

OCLC:

852757932

Publisher Number:

2027/heb31079 hdl