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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... round the frame . When everything had been properly aligned , the stakes were put back all round the turned - up bark shape and their tops . fastened to each other in pairs . In the meantime , the women had sewn on any side pieces ...
... round the frame . When everything had been properly aligned , the stakes were put back all round the turned - up bark shape and their tops . fastened to each other in pairs . In the meantime , the women had sewn on any side pieces ...
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... round pegs of the early techniques , or the later and more subtle flat mortise and tenon method of the Classical world for joining his strakes together . A piece of wood found by Emory in Tomb 3504 , the burial place of Uadji , third ...
... round pegs of the early techniques , or the later and more subtle flat mortise and tenon method of the Classical world for joining his strakes together . A piece of wood found by Emory in Tomb 3504 , the burial place of Uadji , third ...
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... round the Skaw , from the Zuider Zee and the Frisian waters where con- ditions suited their flat bottoms . The twelfth- century wreck Q75 excavated in the early 1960s by van der Heide in the Zuider Zee would support this thesis , since ...
... round the Skaw , from the Zuider Zee and the Frisian waters where con- ditions suited their flat bottoms . The twelfth- century wreck Q75 excavated in the early 1960s by van der Heide in the Zuider Zee would support this thesis , since ...
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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