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

• Author: McGrail, Sean.
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford ;, New York : : Oxford University Press,, [2001]; 2001
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (505 pages) :; illustrations, maps

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.