Ancient Boats in North-West Europe
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ancient European boatbuilding research
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Bark Boats
Boat Find
Bottom Planks
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Coiled Basketry
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ethnographic watercraft
experimental archaeology
Ferriby Boat
Float Rafts
Garboard Strake
Grace Dieu
Hide Boats
Light Weight
Log Raft
Maritime Archaeologist
maritime technology
Medieval Icelandic Laws
Moisture Content
palaeolithic transport methods
Plank Boat
Plank Keel
prehistoric navigation
Reed Bundle
Reed Rafts
Sea Water
Tidal Stream
timber construction techniques
Top Strake
Transverse Stability
Transverse Timbers
Viking Age
Wood Quay
Product details
- ISBN 9781138174801
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 189 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 02 Sep 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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?
Sean McGrail served in the Royal navy from 1945 to 1968, the last sixteen years as a pilot in the fleet Air Arm, and qualified as a Master Marina. After reading for a BA at the University of Bristol, he became Assistant Keeper at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, and subsequently Chief Archaelogist and head of the museum's archaeological research centre. He moved to the University of Oxford as Professor of Maritime Archaeoogy in 1986 and since 1993 he has been Visiting Professor for the Centre for Maritime Archaeology, University of Southampton.
