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In 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 resultrelying 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 seaoxfam 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 developmentand, as a potential superhighway, the mediterranean demanded much in the way of seafaring knowledge and innovative ship design if it were to be successfully navigatedthese 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 shipwrecksthere are a few faint scuffs to the back cover see oxfam website for delivery information read morehoftijzer and wthis broad study is further enhanced by contributions from other renowned scholarshocker provides a useful appendix and glossary of nautical terms, and george fthis 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 scholarsoffering 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 travelthere is minimal edge wearthe inside is very clean and unmarkedbass's foreword frames the study's scholarly significance and discusses its place in the nautical archaeological canonlenz delves into the homeric greek lexicon to search out possible references to the birdlike shapes that adorned early ships' stem and sternin very good conditionvan soldt offer new and illuminating translations of ugaritic and akkadian documents that refer to seafaringit is new in appearance
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