Maritime Archaeology, Ships & Shipping: Exploring the World’s Waters
Our Maritime Archaeology, Ships & Shipping books sail stalwart into the fascinating study of historical ships and their wreckage, maritime trade routes, and underwater archaeology. These books offer invaluable insight into the development of seafaring civilizations.
Edited by John T. Koch, Mikael Fauvelle, Barry Cunliffe and Johan Ling
Full Price: $80.00
Discount Price: $64.00
ISBN: 9798888571842
Pub Date: 2025-05-31
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Oxbow Books
272 Pages
Challenges the terrestrial focus of European prehistory, emphasizing the significance of seascapes, maritime networks, and coastal societies in shaping prehistoric Europe.For many years now, the main...
Perspectives on Insularity, Connectivity, and Belonging
Edited by Dr Anastasia Christophilopoulou
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9798888571514
Pub Date: 2024-12-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
192 Pages
Case studies from Cyprus, Crete and Sardinia reconsider through evidence from archaeology, art, and history, assumptions about island identity and isolation and interaction, commerce and mobility involving other islands and the Mediterranean mainland
J3 was a small ship’s boat that sank at in the harbor of Antirhodos island in the Portus Magnus of Alexandria. Exceptionally well preserved, J3 retains its entire structure from the keel to the guard-rail, including the thwarts and thole pins of its rowing system. Entirely made in non-Egyptian timber, J3 was likely constructed in a boatyard on the
The island of Antirhodos, isolated from the contemporary Alexandrian shoreline, was according to Strabo the property of kings (Geography 17.1.9). It was here in the third century BC that the Ptolemies...
Rigging and sailing a Swedish warship of 1628. Part 1. The material remains and archaeological context
Edited by Fred Hocker
Price: $115.00
ISBN: 9789188909114
Pub Date: 2024-03-01
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Nordic Academic Press
472 Pages
Provides the meticulous reconstruction and comprehensive analysis of the 17th century shipwreck of Vasa and her rigging, shedding valuable light on the Age of Sail seamanship.When Vasa was raised in...
How the sea links people and transforms identities
Edited by Dr Laura C. Schmidt, Prof. Dr. Lutz Käppel, Anja Rutter MA and Prof. Dr. Oliver Nakoinz
Price: $50.00
ISBN: 9789464270693
Pub Date: 2023-12-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Sidestone Press
250 Pages
The present publication constitutes the Proceedings of Session 7 of the ‘Creation of landscapes VI’ workshop, hosted by the CAU Kiel in 2019. The session was entitled ‘Mediterranean Connections – how the sea links people and transforms identities’.
This book explores how models of non-European watercrafts – specifically those from the Indian Ocean – commonly found in museum collections in the UK and throughout the world can help us to understand traditional boats and boat-building practices, some of which no longer exist.
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