ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE BOAT A New Introductory Study by Basil Greenhill 1976 Adam and Charles Black, London [Title page]

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Blurb

ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE BOAT brings together existing knowledge on the development of the world's boats, for both the practical archaeologist and the general reader, in a way not done since James Hornell's classic WATER TRANSPORT published exactly thirty years ago.
Basil Greenhill, Director of the National Maritime Museum, collates the available evidence on the evolution of boat and shipbuilding through the ages and examines it as a part of the development of changing civilizations, and not just as a catalogue of the world's major boat finds. The book covers the four main roots of boatbuilding - the raft, the skin boat, the bark boat and the dugout - and traces the evolution of each type with particular reference to Europe and North America. Basil Greenhill's study includes the technological revolutions which took place in the 15th century.
Two of the chapters have been written by distinguished specialists - John Morrison (President of Wolfson College, Cambridge) contributes a discussion on the development of boats and ships in the classical Mediterranean and Sean McGrail (Chief Archaeologist at the National Maritime Museum) writes on the building of Viking ships.
Boat archaeology is a new, but rapidly expanding, discipline, and as further discoveries are made this book will help to set them in the context of centuries of boatbuilding and boat development. The book contains over 200 photographs and line drawings, as well as chapter by chapter bibliographies and a glossary.
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Author

After taking his degree at Bristol University, Basil Greenhill served in the Royal Navy from 1941 to 45 and then joined HM Diplomatic Service. He had already published the first edition of his two volume maritime industrial history THE MERCHANT SCHOONERS when in 1950, during service in South Asia, he developed an interest in boat archaeology. He has been collecting material for this book ever since. He has been Director of the National Maritime Museum since 1967, during which time he has supervised its transformation into one of the world's great museums, and has also been responsible for the establishment at Greenwich of the first Research Centre devoted to the study of boat archaeology in this country. He has written fifteen books, several in collaboration with his wife, Ann Giffard, and lives in Cornwall when not working at Greenwich. He is a Member of the Ancient Monuments Board for England, a member of the Council of the Society of Antiquaries and of the Executive Committee of the Maritime Trust, a Trustee of the Royal Naval Museum, Vice President of the Society for Nautical Research and President of the International Congress of Maritime Museums. He was made CMG ; in 1967

Contents

Illustrations
Author's Note
Introduction—by Professor W. F. Grimes

Part One - The General Theory

1 A New Study
2 Six Boats and their Builders
3 Shells, Skeletons and Things-in-Between

Part Two - The Four Roots of Boatbuilding

4 The Four Roots of Boatbuilding
5 The First Root, the Raft Boat and the Raft
6 The Second Root, the Skin Boat
7 The Third Root, the Bark Boat
8 The Fourth Root, the Dugout

Part Three - Aspects of the Evolution of Boats and Vessels in Europe and North America

9 The Classical Tradition—by John Morrison
10 The European Clinker-built Boat before the Viking Era
11 The Round-hulled Boat before the Viking Era: A different tradition
12 The Flat-bottomed Boat before the Viking Era
13 The Viking Age
14 The Viking Ships and the Graveney Boat
15 Further Aspects of Viking Age Boatbuilding—by Sean McGrail
16 The Clinker-built Boat after the Viking Period
17 The Cog and the Flat-bottomed Boat after the Vikings
18 The Mysterious Hulk
19 Skeletons Everywhere

Bibliography
Glossary
Index

HIGH GRAPHIC CONTENT MAY LOAD SLOWLY

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