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• Seagoing Ships and Seamanship in the Bronze Age Levant by

  

  Van soldt offer new and illuminating translations of ugaritic and akkadian documents that refer to seafaringin seagoing ships and seamanship in the bronze age levant shelley wachsmann presents a one-of-a-kind comprehensive examination of how the early eastern mediterranean cultures took to the sea--and how they evolved as a resultand, as a potential superhighway, the mediterranean demanded much in the way of seafaring knowledge and innovative ship design if it were to be successfully navigatedoffering an abundance of line drawings and photographs and written in a style that makes the material easily accessible to the layperson, wachsmann's study is certain to become a standard reference for anyone interested in the dawn of sea travelin very good conditionthe inside is very clean and unmarkedthis broad study is further enhanced by contributions from other renowned scholarshocker provides a useful appendix and glossary of nautical terms, and george fthere is minimal edge wearit is new in appearancerelying on archaeological, ethnological, iconographic, and textual evidence, wachsmann delivers a fascinating and intricate rendering of virtually every aspect of early sea travel--from ship construction and propulsion to war on the open water, piracy, and laws pertaining to conduct at seabass's foreword frames the study's scholarly significance and discusses its place in the nautical archaeological canonhoftijzer and wthis book brings together for the first time the entire corpus of evidence pertaining to bronze age seafaring and will be of special value to archaeologists, maritime historians, philologists, and bronze age textual scholarsoxfam bookshop hampstead seagoing ships and seamanship in the bronze age levant by shelley wachsmann  during the bronze age, the ancient societies that ringed the mediterranean, once mostly separate and isolate, began to reach across the great expanse of sea to conduct trade, marking an age of immense cultural growth and technological developmentlenz delves into the homeric greek lexicon to search out possible references to the birdlike shapes that adorned early ships' stem and sternthere are a few faint scuffs to the back cover see oxfam website for delivery information read morethese intersocietal lines of communication and paths for commerce relied on rigorous open-water travelthe author surveys the blue-water ships of the egyptians, syro-canaanites, cypriots, early bronze age aegeans, minoans, mycenaeans, and sea peoples, and discusses known bronze age shipwrecks

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