Maritime Archaeology

Archaeology has made enormous advances recently, both in volume of discoveries and in its character as an intellectual discipline.

Keith Muckelroy (Author)

9780521293488, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 1 February 1979

284 pages
24.7 x 19 x 1.7 cm, 0.514 kg

Archaeology has made enormous advances recently, both in volume of discoveries and in its character as an intellectual discipline; new techniques have helped to further the range and rigour of enquiry, and encouraged interdisciplinary communication. The aim of this series is to make available to a wider audience the results of these developments. The coverage will be world-wide and will extend from the earliest period to medieval and industrial archaeology.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I. The Scope of Maritime Archaeology: 1. Introducing maritime archaeology
2. General introduction and definitions
3. The development of maritime archaeology
4. Summary and prospectus
5. The constraints of work under water
6. The organisation of work under water
7. Some problems in work under water
8. The advantages of excavation under water
9. The contribution of current work under water
10. Mediterranean shipbuilding in classical times
11. Mediterranean trade in pre-classical and classical times
12. Early Mediterranean harbours
13. Ships of the early medieval period in north-west Europe
14. Post-medieval ship construction
15. The Spanish Armada
16. The expansion of Europe, sixteenth to nineteenth centuries
17. The annexation of the new world
18. Navigational instruments
19. The unrealised potential of maritime archaeology
20. Prehistoric craft
21. Medieval shipbuilding in north-west Europe
22. Shipbuilding in Asia
23. Inland craft
24. Pre-1500 trade outside the Mediterranean
25. Anchors and anchorages
26. Deep-water archaeology
Part II. Towards a Theory of Maritime Archaeology: 27. The archaeology of shipwrecks
28. Introduction
29. Wreck-sites and their environments
30. Extracting filters
31. Scrambling devices A
32. Scrambling devices B
33. The analysis of sea-bed distributions A
34. The analysis of sea-bed distributions B
35. The archaeology of ships
36. Introduction
37. The ship as a machine
38. The ship as an element in a military or economic system
39. The ship as a closed community
40. The archaeology of maritime cultures
41. Introduction
42. Nautical technology
43. Naval warfare and maritime trade
44. Shipboard societies
45. Incidental contributions to archaeology in general
46. Conclusions
Theory and Practice
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Archaeology [HD]