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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... period there was little attempt to catch fish and therefore go on the water either accidentally or deliberately , a sharp change occurred during the succeeding period of the Upper Palaeolithic . As well as fishing being reflected in the ...
... period there was little attempt to catch fish and therefore go on the water either accidentally or deliberately , a sharp change occurred during the succeeding period of the Upper Palaeolithic . As well as fishing being reflected in the ...
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... period when , as the seals seem to show , the Arabian Gulf ship- builders were first turning their reed construction into strakes . How did they get the wood for this ? Was there a supply then that no longer exists , from fossil sources ...
... period when , as the seals seem to show , the Arabian Gulf ship- builders were first turning their reed construction into strakes . How did they get the wood for this ? Was there a supply then that no longer exists , from fossil sources ...
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... period of low sea - levels . By the time the Jomon period started , however , the seas had risen . This culture lasted , as far as it is possible to tell from a spattering of radiocarbon dates , from about 4500 BC to about 250 BC.63 It ...
... period of low sea - levels . By the time the Jomon period started , however , the seas had risen . This culture lasted , as far as it is possible to tell from a spattering of radiocarbon dates , from about 4500 BC to about 250 BC.63 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 Crumlin-Pedersen curragh dug-out E. V. Wright early East Egyptian Eskimo Europe Evenhus evidence evolved 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 mortise and tenon National Maritime Museum National Museum Neolithic northern Norway oars obsidian outrigger Pacific pegs period planked boats possible prehistoric primitive radiocarbon dates reed boats reed-bundle ribs river Rock carving Roman Roos Carr round saveiro Scandinavian sea-going seems sewn shape ship side skin boat skin float stone strakes suggests technique tenon tradition type of craft umiak vessel Viking voyage wooden Zwammerdam