BAR Publishing, 2017. — 173 p. — (BAR International Series 2865). This book argues that the use of sail as a complement to paddling would have formed an integral part of the development of centres of power in the early Scandinavian Bronze Age, permitting more frequent communication, and thus helping to expand, maintain and control power. This argument stands in sharp contrast...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. — 592 p. Lionel Casson's encyclopedic study is the first of its kind to use underwater archaeological data to refine and area of scholarship that had, for the most part, relied on ancient texts and graphic representations. Tracing the history of early ships and seamanship from pre-dynastic Egypt to the Roman empire, from skiffs and barges to...
Conway Martime Press, 1995. — 257 p. — ISBN: 0785812687. For thousands of years organized naval warfare was the exclusive preserve of the galley. Oars provided a level of control and maneuverabilty beyond the capabilities of the contemporary sailing ship, and not experienced again until the era of the screw propeller. Precise control allowed squadrons and fleets to operate...
Conway Maritime Press, 2004. — 192 p. Researching back into prehistory and into the earliest evidence provided by archaeology, this volume explores the varied lines of development from the most primitive watercraft to the first real seagoing ships, from Northern Europe, through the Mediterranean to the Near and Far Easts. It traces the most primitive forms of boats - rafts, skin...
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1976. — 320 p. — ISBN: 0-8195-5002-7. 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...
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980. — 188 p. More than a quarter of a century ago a young Egyptian archaeologist, clearing a site just south of the Great Pyramid at Giza, broke through a massive slab of limestone to reveal a vault beneath his feet. For the first time in 4,500 years the sun's rays were shining down on the timbers of a great papyriform ship, built for a king and...
Interpublishing, 1970. — 159 p. — (Architectura Navalis). Монография Бьерна Ландстрема. Он был приглашен на раскопки Солнечной ладьи Хеопса в Гизе. Так что все, что он написал и нарисовал в этой книге, он видел собственными глазами и трогал своими руками. Книга прекрасна иллюстрирована и написана живым, интересным языком.
BAR Publishing, 1984. — 154 p. — (BAR International Series 225). Description of discovery, reconstruction and restoration of the "solar ship" of Pharaoh Cheops (Khufu, c. 2589-2566 BC.), Found in 1954 by the Egyptian archaeologist Kamal el Malak and reconstructed by the efforts of chief restorer of the Egyptian Museum Ahmed Youssef Mustafa. Discovery and excavation of the ship...
Oxford University Press, 2001. — Reprinted 2009, XXIV, 480 p. — ISBN: 978-0-19-927186-3. This is the first book to deal comprehensively with the archaeology of rafts, boats, and ships from the Stone Age to Medieval times. All the regions of the world are covered, from Atlantic Europe and the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean, the China Sea, and the Pacific.
L'Erma Di Bretschneider, 2022. — 202 p. Se confrontate con quelle attuali, le tecniche e le pratiche di navigazione degli antichi risultano relativamente semplici, basate su princìpi essenziali ma estremamente efficaci, come dimostra la loro lunga persistenza nel corso del tempo. Poca teoria e tanta pratica, pochi strumenti e molta esperienza; la straordinaria capacità di...
Oxford: Oxbow Books, 1996.-xviii, 403 p. This is an important study of the new types of warships which evolved in the navies of the Mediterranean in the 4th and 3rd centuries BC, and of their use by Greeks, Phoenicians and Romans in the fleets and naval battles in the second and first centuries, culminating in the Battle of Aktion. The book includes a catalogue and discussion...
2nd Edition — Cambridge University Press, 2000. — 348 p. Shortly before the launch of the reconstructed Greek warship, "Olympias", the first edition of The Athenian Trireme was published, providing historical and technical background to the reconstruction of the ship. Since then, five seasons of experimental trials have been conducted on the ship under oar and sail, and the...
Oxbow Books, 2016. — 420 p. This is an important study of the new types of warships which evolved in the navies of the Mediterranean in the 4th and 3rd centuries BC, and of their use by Greeks, Phoenicians and Romans in the fleets and naval battles in the second and first centuries, culminating in the Battle of Aktion. The book includes a catalogue and discussion of the...
Oxbow Books, 2012. — 243 p. This volume represents the final publication of the Olympias project, which saw the building of a full-scale reconstruction of a 170-oared Athenian naval trireme of the 4th century BC and its operation in five series of sea-trials in the Aegean Sea. The first three sea-trials in 1987, 1988 and 1990 have already been published in separate volumes (the...
Greenwich: National Maritime Museum, 1971. — 120 p. The development of the boat has been a somewhat neglected branch of the history of technology but in recent years archaeologists and historians especially in Scandinavia have been paying more attention to this subject and there are indications that the study of boats may soon receive the emphasis it deserves. The boat is, after...
Brussel, The Permanent International Association of Congresses of Navigation, Executive committee - office of the secretary general, 1905, 136 p.
Holland's struggle for life has been a constant battle against the invasion of water. If this has been, on. the one hand, an enemy to be feared, it has been, on the other, the natural line of communication above all others which has...
Brussel, The Permanent International Association of Congresses of Navigation, Executive committee - office of the secretary general, 1913, 166 p.
Holland's struggle for life has been a constant battle against the invasion of water. If this has been, on. the one hand, an enemy to be feared, it has been, on the other, the natural line of communication above all others which has...
Brussel, The Permanent International Association of Congresses of Navigation, Executive committee - office of the secretary general, 1913, 222 p.
Holland's struggle for life has been a constant battle against the invasion of water. If this has been, on. the one hand, an enemy to be feared, it has been, on the other, the natural line of communication above all others which has...
Texas A&M University Press, 2008. — 448 p. 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 development. These intersocietal lines of communication and paths for commerce relied on rigorous...
Texas A&M University Press, 2008. — 448 p. 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 development. These intersocietal lines of communication and paths for commerce relied on rigorous...
Texas A&M University Press, 2008. — 448 p. 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 development. These intersocietal lines of communication and paths for commerce relied on rigorous...
Brill, 1992. — 249 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 121). This book presents a new theory about the developments in shipping and naval organization that culminated in the invention - around 530 BC in the eastern Mediterranean - of the trireme, and the subsequent adoption of this first specialized warship of antiquity by all the naval powers of the time. New interpretations are...
London: Constable, 1988. — 232 p. — ISBN 0-0-09-466880-9. Drank Welsh is the 'onlie begetter' of the trireme enterprise. It began as a crazy idea aired by him at a dinner party in the Lake District in May 1982. Five years later the crazy idea became a reality when the trireme replica, designed by John Coates and built at the expense of the Greek government and private Greek...
М.: Моркнига, 2019. — 155 с. "Корабли фараонов" Бьёрна Ландстрёма (1917-2002), увидевшая свет в 1970 году, считается самой лучшей книгой о кораблестроении в Древнем Египте, английский оригинал которой давно признан в своей теме классикой. Автор (финн, писавший на шведском) детально анализирует все, что мы знаем о древних кораблях на Ниле, от первых архаических челнов и до...
Ленинград: Судостроение, 1990. — 416 с. — ISBN: 5-7355-0308-1. Автор книги — писатель и специалист по античному мореходству и судостроению — рассказывает живо и увлекательно об истории создания флота, освоении морей и географических открытиях. С мореходством связано стремительное развитие судостроения, навигационных знаний, торговых связей и военно-политических союзов. Трудно...
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