Boats of the world : from the Stone Age to medieval times / Seán McGrail.

By:

McGrail, Sean

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.Edition: Paperback ed., with correctionsDescription: 1 online resource (xix, 480 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780191590535
0191590533

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Boats of the world.DDC classification:

623.821 22

LOC classification:

VM16 .M3823 2004eb

Other classification:

15.37
55.41

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Contents:

Sources and themes -- Egypt -- Arabia -- The Mediterranean -- Atlantic Europe -- India -- Greater Australia -- South-East Asia -- Oceania -- China -- The Americas -- Early water transport.

Summary: 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 pastby presenting the evidence for the building and use of early water transport: rafts, boats, and ships.

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Originally published: 2001.

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

Sources and themes -- Egypt -- Arabia -- The Mediterranean -- Atlantic Europe -- India -- Greater Australia -- South-East Asia -- Oceania -- China -- The Americas -- Early water transport.

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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 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 pastby presenting the evidence for the building and use of early water transport: rafts, boats, and ships.

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