Download or read book The Ferriby Boats written by Edward Wright and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1937 the author, then aged 19, found the remains of an ancient boat at Ferriby on the Humber shore. This book is his own account of his discoveries, excavations and research over 50 years since the first boat find. The importance of this and the subsequent finds was only fully recognised after World War II, when the new technique of carbon-14 dating revealed that the Ferriby Boats were built before 1000 BC. This makes them the oldest plank-built boats found anywhere in the world apart from Ancient Egypt and the Aegean; they predate any similar craft in Northern Europe by half a millennium and present evidence for a style of boat building previously unknown. The excavation and preservation of the boats presented many problems, not least the constant battle with mud and the tide. Over the years the author pioneered methods of excavating and recording which have since become standard in the field of maritime archaeology. This book also presents a realistic reconstruction of the boats with estimates of its performance. They suggest a capacity for navigation at this time not previously imagined and add a new and fundamental dimension to the history of man's relationship with the sea.
Download or read book The Ferriby Boats written by Edward Wright and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1937 the author, then aged 19, found the remains of an ancient boat at Ferriby on the Humber shore. This book is his own account of his discoveries, excavations and research over 50 years since the first boat find. The importance of this and the subsequent finds was only fully recognised after World War II, when the new technique of carbon-14 dating revealed that the Ferriby Boats were built before 1000 BC. This makes them the oldest plank-built boats found anywhere in the world apart from Ancient Egypt and the Aegean; they predate any similar craft in Northern Europe by half a millennium and present evidence for a style of boat building previously unknown. The excavation and preservation of the boats presented many problems, not least the constant battle with mud and the tide. Over the years the author pioneered methods of excavating and recording which have since become standard in the field of maritime archaeology. This book also presents a realistic reconstruction of the boats with estimates of its performance. They suggest a capacity for navigation at this time not previously imagined and add a new and fundamental dimension to the history of man's relationship with the sea.
Download or read book The Ferriby Boats written by E. V. Wright and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ferriby Boats written by English Heritage and published by . This book was released on 1994-12-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The North Ferriby Boats written by E. V. Wright and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The North Ferriby Boats 1937 1947 written by E. V. Wright and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The North Ferriby boats written by Edward (Edward V) Wright and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The North Ferriby boats written by Edward (Edward V) Wright and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dover Bronze Age Boat written by Peter Clark and published by English Heritage. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the dramatic story of the discovery in 1992 of the perfectly preserved remains of a large prehistoric, sewn plank boat in Dover, a unique find of a boat capable of cross-channel sailing.It includes carefully researched reconstruction drawings.
Download or read book Boats of the World written by Sean McGrail and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2002-01-18 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maritime archaeology, the study of man's early encounter with the rivers and seas of the world, only came to the fore in the last decades of the twentieth century, long after its parent discipline, terrestrial archaeology, had been established. Yet there were seamen long before there were farmers, navigators before there were potters, and boatbuilders before there were wainwrights. In this book Professor McGrail attempts to correct some of the imbalance in our knowledge of the past by presenting the evidence for the building and use of early water transport: rafts, boats, and ships. Professor McGrail presents a history of water transport as it has developed over millennia, from before 40,000 BC to the mid-second millennium AD. The coverage is world-wide: from the Baltic and North Seas to the Bay of Bengal and the Tasman Sea; and from the Gulf of Mexico to the China Seas and the Baring Strait.
Download or read book The Sea Craft of Prehistory written by Paul Johnstone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nautical dimension of prehistory has not so far received the attention it deserves. It is also too often assumed that early man was land bound, yet this is demonstrably not the case. Recent research has shown that man travelled and tracked over greater distances and at a much earlier date than has previously been thought possible. Some of these facts can be explained only by man's mastery of water transport from earliest times. This book, by an acknowledged expert on prehistoric sea-craft, examines these problems looking at the new archaeological information in the light of the author's nautical knowledge. The result is a detailed account of man's use of inland and ocean-going craft from earliest times until the dawn of recorded history. All forms of evidence are critically assessed, from the vessels of Ancient Egypt to the Chinese junk, to present of comprehensive picture of the vessels men have built through the ages, and of the variety of ways in which they have been used.
Download or read book Ancient Boats in North West Europe written by Sean Mcgrail and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At last a paperback edition of this standard work on marine archaeology. Séan McGrail's study received exceptional critical acclaim when it was first published in hardback in 1987 and it is now revised and published in paperback for the first time. Professor McGrail provides an authoritative survey of water transport across Northern Europe from the Late Palaeolithic to the later Middle Ages, using evidence of excavations, but also documentary sources, iconographic and ethnographic evidence. In the process he answers such key questions as How were these boats built? What sort of environment were they used in? What speeds could they achieve? and how were they navigated?
Download or read book Boats of the World written by Sean McGrail and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maritime archaeology, the study of man's early encounter with the rivers and seas of the world, only came to the fore in the last decades of the twentieth century, long after its parent discipline, terrestrial archaeology, had been established. Yet there were seamen long before there werefarmers, navigators before there were potters, and boatbuilders before there were wainwrights. In this book Professor McGrail attempts to correct some of the imbalance in our knowledge of the past by presenting the evidence for the building and use of early water transport: rafts, boats, and ships.
Download or read book Prehistoric Boats from North Ferriby East Yorkshire Reprinted from Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society Etc With Plates written by Edward V. WRIGHT (and WRIGHT (Claud William)) and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prehistoric Boats from North Ferriby East Yorkshire Reprinted from Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society New Series Vol XIII 1947 With Plates Illustrations and a Map written by Edward Vere Wright and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ancient Boats written by Sean McGrail and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Earliest Ships written by Robert Gardiner and published by Brassey's. This book was released on 1996 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume takes the development of the most primitive forms of boats - rafts, skin boats and dugouts, for example - which developed ultimately into ships for trade, commerce and war. It summarizes the current state of knowledge, and examines the nature of archaeological evidence.
