On the Ocean The Mediterranean and the Atlantic from prehistory to AD 1500

Sir Barry Cunliffe, Emeritus Professor of European Archaeology, University of Oxford

Barry Cunliffe taught archaeology in the Universities of Bristol and Southampton and was Professor of European Archaeology at the University of Oxford from 1972 to 2008, thereafter becoming Emeritus Professor. He has excavated widely in Britain (Fishbourne, Bath, Danebury, Hengistbury Head, Brading) and in the Channel Islands, Brittany, and Spain, and has been President of the Council for British Archaeology and of the Society of Antiquaries, Governor of the Museum of London, and a Trustee of the British Museum. He is currently a Commissioner of English Heritage. His many publications include The Ancient Celts (1997), Facing the Ocean (2001), The Druids: A Very Short Introduction (2010), Britain Begins (2012), and By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean (2015), all published by Oxford University Press. He received a knighthood in 2006.

1. Those in Peril on the Sea
2. The Combat that is called Navigation
3. Taking to the Sea
4. Two Seas, Many Responses: 5300-1200 B.C.
5. The Eastern Mediterranean Cauldron: 5300-1200 B.C.
6. Exploring the Ends of the World: 1200-600 B.C.
7. Of Ships and Sails: a Technical Interlude
8. Into the Outer Ocean: 600-100 B.C.
9. The Atlantic Community: 100 B.C.-A.D. 500
10. An End and a Beginning: A.D. 350-800
11. The Age of the Northmen: A.D. 780-1100
12. The New European Order: A.D. 1100-1400
13. To the Other Side of the World: A.D. 1400-1510
14. Reflections on the Ocean
Guide to Further Reading
Illustration Sources
Index