The global origins and development of seafaring

Weitere Verfasser: Anderson, Atholl
Barrett, James H.
Boyle, Katherine V.
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Cambridge : McDonald Institute for Archeological Research, 2010.
Umfang/Format: xiv, 330 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Schriftenreihe: McDonald Institute monographs
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Part I: Introduction
  • The origins and development of seafaring : towards a global approach / Atholl Anderson
  • Part II: Inferences of early seafaring
  • Neptune's children : the evolution of human seafaring / Jon McVey Erlandson
  • Earliest coastal settlement, marine palaeoeconomies and human dispersal : the Africa-Arabia connection / Geoff Bailey
  • Pleistocene migration and colonization in the Indo-Pacific region / Sue O'Connor
  • Pleistocene Sahul and the origions of seafaring / James F. O'Connell, Jim Allen, Kristen Hawkes
  • Seafaring intensity and island-mainland interaction along the Pacific Coast of North America / Ben Fitzhugh, Dougles J. Kennett
  • The first Argonauts : towards the study of the earliest seafaring in the Mediterranean / Albert J. Ammerman
  • Part III: The development of boats and seafaring
  • The global origins of seagoing water transport / Seán McGrail
  • Aspects of the origion of Atlantic and Baltic seafaring / Ole Crumlin-Pedersen
  • Part IV: Holocene circumstances and incentives of seafaring
  • Pacific voyaging and settlement : issues of biogeography and archaeology, canoe performance and computer simulation / Geoffrey Irwin
  • Prehistoric Pacific population movements / Robin G. Allaby [et.al.]
  • Seafaring and the development of cultural complexity in Northeast Asia : evidence from the Japanese archipelago / Junko Habu
  • Demographic imperatives for island colonists / William F. Keegan
  • Island colonization and trade in the Mediterranean / R. Helen Farr
  • The social and environmental context of Neolithic seafaring in the Persian Gulf / Robert A. Carter
  • A question of life and death? Seafaring and abandonment in the Mediterranean and Pacific Islands / Helen Dawson
  • Conceptual modelling of seafaring, climate and early European exploration and settlement of the North Atlantic Islands / Andrew J. Dugmore [et.al.]
  • Part V: Sailing and society
  • The sea and the land : maritime connections in the Chiefly Landscape of Tonga / Geoffrey Clark
  • Evidence for the Austronesian voyages in the Indian Ocean / Roger Blench
  • 'Ships a-sail from over the rim of the sea' : voyaging, sailing and the making of Mediterranean societies c. 3500-800 BC / Cyprian Broodbank
  • Seafaring on the Atlantic seaboard / Barry Cunliffe
  • 'Horses are strong at sea' : the liminal aspect of the maritime cultural landscape / Christer Westerdahl
  • Rounding up the usual suspects : causation and the Viking Age diaspora / James H. Barrett
  • Part VI: Conclusion
  • Histories of global seafaring: a discussion / James H. Barrett, Atholl Anderson.