Crossroads In Ancient Shipbuilding
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Crossroads In Ancient Shipbuilding
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Author : Christer Westerdahl
language : en
Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited
Release Date : 1994
Crossroads In Ancient Shipbuilding written by Christer Westerdahl and has been published by Oxbow Books Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with History categories.
Contains the proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology, Roskilde 1991. The contents include: new finds of mesolithic logboats in Denmark; prehistoric boats in the rock-paintings of Cadiz; and the rock-carvings of Northwestern Spain.
The Philosophy Of Shipbuilding
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Author : Frederick M. Hocker
language : en
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Release Date : 2004
The Philosophy Of Shipbuilding written by Frederick M. Hocker and has been published by Texas A&M University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Excavations (Archaeology) categories.
12 expert nautical archaeologists, present the latest information from excavations and explore the conceptual basis for shipbuilding traditions.
Ancient Ships
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Author : Cecil Torr
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894
Ancient Ships written by Cecil Torr and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1894 with Shipbuilding categories.
A Maritime Archaeology Of Ships
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Author : J. R. Adams
language : en
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Release Date : 2013-12-11
A Maritime Archaeology Of Ships written by J. R. Adams and has been published by Oxbow Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-11 with History categories.
In the last fifty years the investigation of maritime archaeological sites in the sea, in the coastal zone and in their interconnecting locales, has emerged as one of archaeology's most dynamic and fast developing fields. No longer a niche interest, maritime archaeology is recognised as having central relevance in the integrated study of the human past. Within maritime archaeology the study of watercraft has been understandably prominent and yet their potential is far from exhausted. In this book Jon Adams evaluates key episodes of technical change in the ways that ships were conceived, designed, built, used and disposed of. As technological puzzles they have long confounded explanation but when viewed in the context of the societies in which they were created, mysteries begin to dissolve. Shipbuilding is social practice and as one of the most complex artefacts made, changes in their technology provide a lens through which to view the ideologies, strategies and agency of social change. Adams argues that the harnessing of shipbuilding was one of the ways in which medieval society became modern and, while the primary case studies are historical, he also demonstrates that the relationships between ships and society have key implications for our understanding of prehistory in which seafaring and communication had similarly profound effects on the tide of human affairs.
Ancient And Modern Ships
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Author : Sir George Charles Vincent Holmes
language : en
Publisher: anboco
Release Date : 2016-08-17
Ancient And Modern Ships written by Sir George Charles Vincent Holmes and has been published by anboco this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-17 with Fiction categories.
An endeavour has been made in this handbook, as far as space and scantiness of material would permit, to trace the history of the development of wooden ships from the earliest times down to our own. Unfortunately, the task has been exceedingly difficult; for the annals of shipbuilding have been very badly kept down to a quite recent period, and the statements made by old writers concerning ships are not only meagre but often extremely inaccurate. Moreover, the drawings and paintings of vessels which have survived from the classical period are few and far between, and were made by artists who thought more of pictorial effect than of accuracy of detail. Fortunately the carvings of the ancient Egyptians were an exception to the above rule. Thanks to their practice of recording and illustrating their history in one of the most imperishable of materials we know more of their ships and maritime expeditions than we do of those of any other people of antiquity. If their draughtsmen were as conscientious in delineating their boats as they were in their drawings of animals and buildings, we may accept the illustrations of Egyptian vessels which have survived into our epoch as being correct in their main features. The researches now being systematically carried out in the Valley of the Nile add, year by year, to our knowledge, andviii already we know enough to enable us to assert that ship building is one of the oldest of human industries, and that there probably existed a sea borne commerce in the Mediterranean long before the building of the Pyramids...
Ancient Ships
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Author : Cecil Torr
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-06-20
Ancient Ships written by Cecil Torr and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-20 with History categories.
Originally published in 1894, this book presents a detailed study of ships from the Mediterranean area during the period 1000 BC to 1000 AD. Evidence is drawn from written sources, including inscriptions and literature, and material sources, such as the ruins of the docks at Athens and small surviving pieces of the ships themselves. The text provides detailed information on the structural elements of ships and includes an appendix section on different types of ship. Illustrative figures are also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the ancient world and shipping.
Fish On Friday Volume 2 Of 2 Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
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Fish On Friday Volume 2 Of 2 Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition written by and has been published by ReadHowYouWant.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Viking Empires
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Author : Angelo Forte
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2005-05-05
Viking Empires written by Angelo Forte and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-05-05 with History categories.
Viking Empires, first published in 2005, is a definitive global history of the Viking World.
Into The Ice Sea
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Author : JaapJan Zeeberg
language : en
Publisher: JaapJan Zeeberg
Release Date : 2005
Into The Ice Sea written by JaapJan Zeeberg and has been published by JaapJan Zeeberg this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
Synthesizes several expeditions by archeologists connected with Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum in the Novaya Zemlya archipelago between 1991 and 2000 and their historical parallels of four centuries.
On The Ocean
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Author : Sir Barry Cunliffe
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017-09-29
On The Ocean written by Sir Barry Cunliffe and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-29 with History categories.
For humans the sea is, and always has been, an alien environment. Ever moving and ever changing in mood, it is a place without time, in contrast to the land which is fixed and scarred by human activity giving it a visible history. While the land is familiar, even reassuring, the sea is unknown and threatening. By taking to the sea humans put themselves at its mercy. It has often been perceived to be an alien power teasing and cajoling. The sea may give but it takes. Why, then, did humans become seafarers? Part of the answer is that we are conditioned by our genetics to be acquisitive animals: we like to acquire rare materials and we are eager for esoteric knowledge, and society rewards us well for both. Looking out to sea most will be curious as to what is out there - a mysterious island perhaps but what lies beyond? Our innate inquisitiveness drives us to explore. Barry Cunliffe looks at the development of seafaring on the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, two contrasting seas -- the Mediterranean without a significant tide, enclosed and soon to become familiar, the Atlantic with its frightening tidal ranges, an ocean without end. We begin with the Middle Palaeolithic hunter gatherers in the eastern Mediterranean building simple vessels to make their remarkable crossing to Crete and we end in the early years of the sixteenth century with sailors from Spain, Portugal and England establishing the limits of the ocean from Labrador to Patagonia. The message is that the contest between humans and the sea has been a driving force, perhaps the driving force, in human history.