BOATS OF THE WORLD: FROM THE STONE AGE TO MEDIEVAL TIMES
Written by Sean McGrail
Published by Oxford University Press
in 2004
ISBN: 0199271860
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- MARITIME
- ARCHAEOLOGY
- HISTORY
- HISTORY GENERAL
BOATS OF THE WORLD: FROM THE STONE AGE TO MEDIEVAL TIMES
Written by Sean McGrail.
Stock no. 1827808
1st thus.
2004.
Softcover.
Very good condition.
A history of water transport as it has developed over millennia, from before 40,000 BC to the mid-second millennium AD. Blue cardwraps. 480 pages including index. B/w photos and diagrams. ISBN: 0199271860. Corners lightly rubbed. Vertical crease to spine. Orange mark to top edge of text block. Text block lightly browned. Contents clean.
Front cover

Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- Abbreviations
- Conventions used in the text
- 1. SOURCES AND THEMES
- 1.1 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
- 1.5 Presentation of the evidence
- 2. EGYPT
- 2.1 The Delta
- 2.2 Egypt's natural resources
- 2.3 Seafaring
- 2.4 The pre-Pharaonic period (c.13,000-3100 BC)
- 2.5 Non-plank craft throughout Pharanoic times
- 2.6 Planked craft of the Early Dynastic Period (c.3100-2866 BC)
- 2.7 Planked boats and ships of the Old Kingdom (c.2686-2160 BC)
- 2.8 Planked vessels of the Middle Kingdom (c.2133-1786 BC)
- 2.9 Planked vessels of the New Kingdom (c.1567-1085 BC)
- 2.10 The Late Dynastic Period (1085-332 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-plank boats of the first and second millennia AD
- 3.7 Harbours and trade routes in the first century AD
- 3.8 Seafaring
- 4. THE MEDITERRANEAN
- 4.1 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 BC)
- 4.6 The Early Bronze Age (c3800-2000 BC)
- 4.7 The Middle Bronze Age (c.2000-1500 BC)
- 4.8 The Late Bronze Age (c.1550-1100 BC)
- 4.9 The Early Iron Age (c.1100-550 BC)
- 4.10 The trireme of the seventh-fourth centuries BC
- 4.11 Shipbuilding before the third century BC
- 4.12 The Hellenistic Age (fourth -first centuries BC)
- 4.13 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 the medieval frame-first ships
- 5. ATLANTIC EUROPE
- 5.1 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 build 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
- 6.1 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-eigth 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
- 7.1 The early environment
- 7.2 The settlement of Greater Australia
- 7.3 Water transport
- 7.4 Early prehistoric water transport
- 8. SOUT-EAST ASIA
- 8.1 Early population movements
- 8.2 Early maritime contacts
- 8.3 Water transport
- 9. OCEANIA
- 9.1 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
- 10.1 The environmental background
- 10.2 Early water transport
- 10.3 Early inland waterways
- 10.4 Seagoing vessels
- 10.5 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
- 11.1 The earliest settlement
- 11.2 Later settlements
- 11.3 European settlements in fifteenth-eighteenth centuries
- 11.4 Water transport
- 11.5 America's earliest water transport
- 12. EARLY WATER TRANSPORT
- 12.1 The state of research
- 12.2 Inter-regional comparisions
- 12.3 Boat and ship archaeology
- Bibliography
- Glossary
- Index