Seagoing Ships and Seamanship in the Bronze Age Levant (Ed Rachal Foundation Nautical Archaeology) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for Seagoing Ships and Seamanship in the Bronze Age Levant 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 dis...
Full description- Publisher: Texas A & M University Press
- Published: 15 January 2009
- Format: Paperback 448 pages
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- Categories: General & World History | Maritime History | Archaeology | Transport | Ships & Shipping | Guidebooks
- ISBN 13: 9781603440806 ISBN 10: 1603440801
- Sales rank: 888,232
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Full description for Seagoing Ships and Seamanship in the Bronze Age Levant
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.
