The Sea-craft of PrehistoryHarvard University Press, 1980 - 260 من الصفحات This sweeping and authoritative history of primitive man's first efforts to go to sea is at once a great detective story and a reconstruction of the past through illustrations. Johnstone's work supersedes all previous interpretations of the extent of water transport among early societies. Long established ideas of how and when early populations expanded and relocated have been rendered obsolete. The dynamic advances in archacology combined with sensitive renderings of the artifacts of preliterate peoples have yielded remarkable results. The nautical information Johnstone has marshaled is admirable. He describes the carly types of water transport: raft and reed, skin, dugouts, and the first plank-built boats. He surveys the simultaneous developments of seafaring technology and the uses of maritime transport in commerce and war throughout prehistoric Europe, the Orient, the Pacific, and developments of seafaring technology and the uses of maritime transport in commerce and war throughout prehistoric Europe, the Orient, the Pacific, and the Americas. Combining exhaustive research with brilliant theoretical imagination, Johnstone offers some unprecedented solutions to such problems as the early dates for the presence of man in Australia and the West Indies, and the inconsistency of geological evidence with several convenient land bridge speculations. Johnstone supplements his archaeological evidence with a close analysis of iconographic materials and a judicioususe of ethnographic parallels with contemporary primitive societies. Folklore and legends provide clues to early man's maritime exploits, as do linguistics and etymology. Even the occurrences of chickens and sweet potatoes in unexpected places are duly noted and ex-plained. Not only definitive, The Seacraft of Prehistory is also highly readable. Profusely illustrated and consistently original and provocative, it is truly an outstanding achievement. The late Paul Johnstone worked for BBC Overseas and BBC Television, where he was head of the History and Archaeology unit. |
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... Late Post- glacial times , one would expect the umiak to have been in use then . In any case , it seems likely that as far as the north - eastern extremity of Asia is concerned , the same broad outline would apply . That is to say , a ...
... Late Post- glacial times , one would expect the umiak to have been in use then . In any case , it seems likely that as far as the north - eastern extremity of Asia is concerned , the same broad outline would apply . That is to say , a ...
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... late second millennium BC . They also recall , in general carpentry techniques , the methods used in the Cheops ship ... late seventh century BC wheels were similar to those shown in late Assyrian palace reliefs.32 This is not certain ...
... late second millennium BC . They also recall , in general carpentry techniques , the methods used in the Cheops ship ... late seventh century BC wheels were similar to those shown in late Assyrian palace reliefs.32 This is not certain ...
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... late as AD 1406 , with the characteristic reaction of a Mediterranean sailor to a voyage from Spain to the English Channel : ' The Western Sea is not like the Mediterranean Sea , which has neither ebb nor flow nor great currents ... It ...
... late as AD 1406 , with the characteristic reaction of a Mediterranean sailor to a voyage from Spain to the English Channel : ' The Western Sea is not like the Mediterranean Sea , which has neither ebb nor flow nor great currents ... It ...
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aboriginal Allectus ancient archaeological bark canoe Blackfriars bow and stern British Isles Broighter boat Bronze Age Caergwrle canoe Casson caulking century BC chapter coast coracle curragh dug-out E. V. Wright early East Egyptian Eskimo Europe Evenhus evidence evolved examples excavated fastened Ferriby boat Figure fishing flat bottom frames gunwale Hjortspring boat Hornell hull ibid Indian island kayak keel Landström lashings later leeboards logs London Marstrander mast Mediterranean Mesolithic metres long millennium BC Minoan mortise and tenon National Maritime Museum National Museum Neolithic northern Norway oars obsidian outrigger Pacific pegs perhaps period planked boats possible prehistoric primitive radiocarbon dates reed boats reed-bundle ribs river Rock carving Roman Roos Carr round saveiro sea-going seems sewn shape ship side skin boat skin float stone strakes suggests technique tenons tradition type of craft umiak vessel Viking voyage wooden Zwammerdam