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Maritime archaeology, the study of man's early encounter with the rivers and seas of the world, only came to the fore in the last decades of the twentieth century, long after its parent discipline, terrestrial archaeology, had been established. Yet there were seamen long before there were farmers, navigators before there were potters, and boatbuilders before there were wainwrights. In this book Professor McGrail attempts to correct some of the imbalance in our knowledge of the past by presenting the evidence for the building and use of early water transport: rafts, boats, and ships. Professor McGrail presents a history of water transport as it has developed over millennia, from before 40,000 BC to the mid-second millennium AD. The coverage is world-wide: from the Baltic and North Seas to the Bay of Bengal and the Tasman Sea; and from the Gulf of Mexico to the China Seas and the Baring Strait.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History History: specific events & topics

• Full title: Boats of the World
• Subtitle: From the Stone Age to Medieval Times
• Author: Sean McGrail
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 360
• EAN: 9780198144687
• ISBN: 0198144687
• ID: 04521950
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Weight: 2100 g
• Dimensions: 286 × 228 × 37 mm
• Date of publishing: 17. January 2002

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