Stone Age Sailors
Title | Stone Age Sailors PDF eBook |
Author | Alan H Simmons |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 265 |
Release | 2016-06-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1315419726 |
Alan Simmons summarizes and synthesizes the evidence for prehistoric seafaring and island habitation in the Mediterranean as part of the mounting evidence that our ancestors developed sailing skills early in prehistory.
Archaeology and History in Sardinia from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages
Title | Archaeology and History in Sardinia from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen L. Dyson |
Publisher | UPenn Museum of Archaeology |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781934536025 |
With one of the richest archaeological records and most complicated histories in the Mediterranean, Sardinia provides an important laboratory for studying the interaction of indigenous societies and outside forces in a partly isolated geographical context. Stephen L. Dyson and Robert J. Rowland, Jr. use both material culture and written documents to reconstruct the social and economic processes of an island society that showed both cultural creativity and continuity but responded to invasions from the Phoenicians through the Romans to the Aragonese. This first accessible reconstruction of island archaeology provides a balanced picture of the sweep of Sardinian history.
Seafaring and Seafarers in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean
Title | Seafaring and Seafarers in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur Bernard Knapp |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Bronze age |
ISBN | 9789088905551 |
This book presents a diachronic study of seafaring, seafarers and maritime interactions during the Early, Middle and Late Bronze Ages of the eastern Mediterranean (Cyprus, Anatolia, the Levant, Egypt)
The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age
Title | The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age PDF eBook |
Author | Jean-Claude Poursat |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 994 |
Release | 2022-06-09 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1108571190 |
The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age offers a comprehensive chronological and geographical overview of one of the most important civilizations in human history. Jean-Claude Poursat's volume provides a clear path through the rich and varied art and archaeology of Aegean prehistory, from the Neolithic period down to the end of the Bronze Age. Charting the regional differences within the Aegean world, his study covers the full range of material evidence, including architecture, pottery, frescoes, metalwork, stone, and ivory, all lucidly arranged by chapter. With nearly 300 illustrations, this volume is one of the most lavishly illustrated treatments of the subject yet published. Suggestions for further reading provide an up-to-date entry point to the full richness of the subject. Originally published in French, and translated by the author's collaborator Carl Knappett, this edition makes Poursat's deep knowledge of the Aegean Bronze Age available to an English-language audience for the first time.
Outlaws of the Atlantic
Title | Outlaws of the Atlantic PDF eBook |
Author | Marcus Rediker |
Publisher | Beacon Press |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2014-08-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0807033103 |
This maritime history "from below" exposes the history-making power of common sailors, slaves, pirates, and other outlaws at sea in the era of the tall ship. In Outlaws of the Atlantic, award-winning historian Marcus Rediker turns maritime history upside down. He explores the dramatic world of maritime adventure, not from the perspective of admirals, merchants, and nation-states but from the viewpoint of commoners—sailors, slaves, indentured servants, pirates, and other outlaws from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century. Bringing together their seafaring experiences for the first time, Outlaws of the Atlantic is an unexpected and compelling peoples’ history of the “age of sail.” With his signature bottom-up approach and insight, Rediker reveals how the “motley”—that is, multiethnic—crews were a driving force behind the American Revolution; that pirates, enslaved Africans, and other outlaws worked together to subvert capitalism; and that, in the era of the tall ship, outlaws challenged authority from below deck. By bringing these marginal seafaring characters into the limelight, Rediker shows how maritime actors have shaped history that many have long regarded as national and landed. And by casting these rebels by sea as cosmopolitan workers of the world, he reminds us that to understand the rise of capitalism, globalization, and the formation of race and class, we must look to the sea.
Maritime Networks in the Mycenaean World
Title | Maritime Networks in the Mycenaean World PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas F. Tartaron |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 361 |
Release | 2013-05-27 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1107067138 |
In this book, Thomas F. Tartaron presents a new and original reassessment of the maritime world of the Mycenaean Greeks of the Late Bronze Age. By all accounts a seafaring people, they enjoyed maritime connections with peoples as distant as Egypt and Sicily. These long-distance relations have been celebrated and much studied; by contrast, the vibrant worlds of local maritime interaction and exploitation of the sea have been virtually ignored. Dr Tartaron argues that local maritime networks, in the form of 'coastscapes' and 'small worlds', are far more representative of the true fabric of Mycenaean life. He offers a complete template of conceptual and methodological tools for recovering small worlds and the communities that inhabited them. Combining archaeological, geoarchaeological and anthropological approaches with ancient texts and network theory, he demonstrates the application of this scheme in several case studies. This book presents new perspectives and challenges for all archaeologists with interests in maritime connectivity.
Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Sailors in the Aegean and the Near East
Title | Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Sailors in the Aegean and the Near East PDF eBook |
Author | Adamantios Sampson |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 2019-08-05 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1527537927 |
Old theories for the origins of domesticated animals and plants from the East and the spread of farming and husbandry in Europe have affected generations of archaeologists, resulting in several theories of migrations of populations. However, there is no evidence in the archaeological record of population movements from the East, while so far the contribution of the pre-Neolithic populations of the Aegean has been neglected. This book shows that Mesolithic hunter-gatherers developed a dense maritime network on the Aegean islands and contributed to the Neolithisation process, transferring domesticated species from the East to the Aegean through Cyprus. Their great specialization in fishing and long journeys was due to a tradition that had roots in the Palaeolithic period. This text is based on practical experience from excavations and surface surveys over the past 25 years in Mesolithic and Neolithic sites in the Aegean Basin and continental Greece.