The global origins and development of seafaring
By: edited by Atholl Anderson, James H. Barrett & Katherine V. Boyle
Series: McDonald Institute monographs
Publisher: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge; Distributed by Oxbow Books; McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; Oakville, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9781902937526
Subjects: Commerce; Human settlements; Sailing; Seafaring life; Migrations; Colonization; Ancient Ships; Ancient Naval history; Shipbuilding; Human beings; Navigation; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Introduction; title: - The origins and development of seafaring : towards a global approach / Atholl Anderson; title: pt. 2. Inferences of early seafaring; title: Neptune's children : the evolution of human seafaring / Jon McVey Erlandson; title: Earliest coastal settlement, marine palaeoeconomies and human dispersal : the Africa-Arabia connection / Geoff Bailey; title: Pleistocene migration and colonization in the Indo-Pacific region / Sue O'Connor; title: Pleistocene Sahul and the origins of seafaring / James F. O'Connell, Jim Allen, Kristen Hawkes; title: Seafaring intensity and island-mainland interaction along the Pacific Coast of North America / Ben Fitzhugh, Dougles J. Kennett; title: The first Argonauts : towards the study of the earliest seafaring in the Mediterranean / Albert J. Ammerman; title: pt. 3. The development of boats and seafaring; title: The global origins of seagoing water transport / Seán McGrail; title: Aspects of the origin of Atlantic and Baltic seafaring / Ole Crumlin-Pedersen; title: pt. 4. Holocene circumstances and incentives of seafaring; title: Pacific voyaging and settlement : issues of biogeography and archaeology, canoe performance and computer simulation / Geoffrey Irwin; title: Prehistoric Pacific population movements / Robin G. Allaby [et.al.]; title: Seafaring and the development of cultural complexity in Northeast Asia : evidence from the Japanese archipelago / Junko Habu; title: Demographic imperatives for island colonists / William F. Keegan; title: Island colonization and trade in the Mediterranean / R. Helen Farr; title: The social and environmental context of Neolithic seafaring in the Persian Gulf / Robert A. Carter; title: A question of life and death? Seafaring and abandonment in the Mediterranean and Pacific Islands / Helen Dawson; title: Conceptual modelling of seafaring, climate and early European exploration and settlement of the North Atlantic islands / Andrew J. Dugmore [et.al.]; title: pt. 5. Sailing and society; title: The sea and the land : maritime connections in the chiefly landscape of Tonga / Geoffrey Clark; title: Evidence for the Austronesian voyages in the Indian Ocean / Roger Blench; title: "Ships a-sail from over the rim of the sea" : voyaging, sailing and the making of Mediterranean societies. c. 3500-800 BC / Cyprian Broodbank; title: Seafaring on the Atlantic seaboard / Barry Cunliffe; title: "Horses are strong at sea" : the liminal aspect of the maritime cultural landscape / Christer Westerdahl; title: Rounding up the usual suspects : causation and the Viking Age diaspora / James H. Barrett; title: pt. 6. Conclusion; title: Histories of global seafaring : a discussion / James H. Barrett, Atholl Anderson.