Seagoing Ships and Seamanship in the Bronze Age Levant Paperback / softback
by Shelley Wachsmann
Part of the Ed Rachal Foundation Nautical Archaeology Series series
Paperback / softback
Description
In ""Seagoing Ships and Seamanship in the Bronze Age"" Levant Shelley Wachsmann presents a one-of-a-kind comprehensive examination of how the early eastern Mediterranean cultures took to the sea - and how they evolved as a result.
The author surveys the blue-water ships of the Egyptians, Syro-Canaanites, Cypriots, Early Bronze Age Aegeans, Minoans, Mycenaeans, and Sea Peoples, and also discusses known Bronze Age shipwrecks.
Relying on archaeological, ethnological, iconographic, and textual evidence, Wachsmann delivers a fascinating and intricate rendering of virtually every aspect of early sea travel - from ship construction and propulsion to war on the open water, piracy, and laws pertaining to conduct at sea.This book brings together for the first time the entire corpus of evidence pertaining to Bronze Age seafaring.
It will be of special value to archaeologists, maritime historians, philologists, and Bronze Age textual scholars.
Offering an abundance of line drawings and photographs and written in a style that makes the material easily accessible to the layperson, Wachsmann's study is certain to become a standard reference for anyone interested in the dawn of sea travel.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:448 pages, 170 b&w photos, 509 line art illustrations, bib., index
- Publisher:Texas A & M University Press
- Publication Date:01/01/2009
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- ISBN:9781603440806
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:448 pages, 170 b&w photos, 509 line art illustrations, bib., index
- Publisher:Texas A & M University Press
- Publication Date:01/01/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9781603440806
