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Archaeology and the Social History of Ships

by Richard A. Gould

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2nd

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9780521125628

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0521125626

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Pub. Date:

4/29/2011

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Cambridge University Press

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Summary

Maritime archaeology deals with shipwrecks and is carried out by divers rather than diggers..It embraces maritime history and analyzes changes in ship-building, navigation, and seamanship, and offers fresh perspectives on the cultures and societies that produced the ships and sailors. Drawing on detailed past and recent case studies, Richard A. Gould provides an up-to-date review of the field that includes dramatic new findings arising from improved undersea technologies. This second edition of Archaeology and the Social History of Ships has been updated throughout to reflect new findings and new interpretations of old sites. The new edition explores advances in undersea technology in archaeology, especially remotely operated vehicles. The book reviews many of the major recent shipwreck findings, including the Vasa in Stockholm, the Viking wrecks at Roskilde Fjord, and the Titanic.

Author Biography

Richard A. Gould is emeritus professor of anthropology at Brown University. In addition to writing articles for numerous journals, including American Antiquity and The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, he has contributed to several edited volumes, among them Encyclopedia of Underwater and Maritime Archaeology and The Oxford Companion to Archaeology. He is the author or editor of 12 books, including Disaster Archaeology, Recovering the Past, Shipwreck Anthropology, and Living Archaeology.

List of figures	p. vii
List of tables	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction: Toward a higher standard	p. 1
Interpreting the underwater archaeological record	p. 9
Underwater archaeology: The state of the art	p. 25
Ships and shipwrecks: Basic mechanics	p. 63
The archaeology of small watercraft	p. 91
The earliest ships	p. 121
Shipwrecks and our understanding of ancient trade	p. 151
Sailing ships of the Middle Ages	p. 171
Ships of the great age of sail	p. 209
From sail to steam in maritime commerce	p. 248
New technologies and naval warfare	p. 281
The archaeology of maritime infrastructure	p. 319
The future of shipwreck archaeology	p. 336
References cited	p. 357
General index	p. 379
Ship and site index	p. 385
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