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SEAGOING SHIPS AND SEAMANSHIP IN THE BRONZE AGE LEVANT
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| By: |
Shelley Wachsmann |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£68.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0890967091 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780890967096 |
| Publisher: |
TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
30 September, 1997 |
| Series: |
Ed Rachal Foundation Nautical Archaeology Series |
| Pages: |
448 |
| Description: |
During the Bronze Age, the ancient societies that ringed the Mediterraneann, once mostly separate and isolate, began to reach across the great expanse of sea to conduct trade. This text presents an examination of how these early cultures took to the sea - and how they evolved as a result. |
| Synopsis: |
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/Therans, Mycenaeans/Achaeans, and Sea Peoples, and 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 and will be of special value to archaeologists, maritime historians, philologists, and Bronze Age textual scholars. |
| Illustrations: |
170 b&w photographs, 509 line drawings |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Texas A & M University Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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