A maritime archaeology of ships : innovation and social change in Medieval and Early Modern Europe / Jonathan Adams
| Signatura | Copia | Colección |
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| 48/82 | 8506 | Libros modernos desde 1900 |
In the last fifty years the investigation of maritime archaeological sites in the sea, in the coastal zone and in their interconnecting locales, has emerged as one of archaeology's most dynamic and fast developing fields. No longer a niche interest, maritime archaeology is recognised as having central relevance in the integrated study of the human past. Within maritime archaeology the study of watercraft has been understandably prominent and yet their potential is far from exhausted. In this book Jon Adams evaluates key episodes of technical change in the ways that ships were conceived, designed, built, used and disposed of. As technological puzzles they have long confounded explanation but when viewed in the context of the societies in which they were created, mysteries begin to dissolve. Shipbuilding is social practice and as one of the most complex artefacts made, changes in their technology provide a lens through which to view the ideologies, strategies and agency of social change.
Adams argues that the harnessing of shipbuilding was one of the ways in which medieval society became modern and, while the primary case studies are historical, he also demonstrates that the relationships between ships and society have key implications for our understanding of prehistory in which seafaring and communication had similarly profound effects on the tide of human affairs.
List of figures and tables
Acknowledgements
Preface
1. Pathways and ideas: Premises; Contexts and scope; Foundations; Archaeology or anthropology?; The middle range; Shifting sands; From method to management; Money, policy; law and ethics; Knowing what is here
2. Watercraft: Communication, subsistence, trade and exchange; The first seafarers?; Preservation; Failure or sucess?; Ritual deposition and abandonment; Context and meanings; Time capsules?; Selection; Aggregate value; Ships as things; Reading ships; Ship as society
3. Sources, theories and practice: Images and altered perception; The attrition of time; Discovery, management and acess; Ships of trade; Ships of war; Art or science?; Theory and practice; Technological particulars or social trends?; Data, facts and objectivity; Archaeological historical synthesis; Technology, innovation and social change
4. From medieval to modern: ships of state: Terminology; Technological precedents; Innovation and change; Cultural transmission; Cocha-carrack; From carrack to carvel; Mary Rose; The Kravel: key to a kingdom; Symbols of power; A social context; Principal agents; Innovation; Floating castles: architectural analogies; Dynasty over deity; Guns or barricas?
5. The mysterious hulk: medieval tradition or modern myth?: Proposed hulk characteristics; Proto-hulks?; Late medieval hulks; Perception and the medieval artista; Conclusión
6. Shipwrights, status and power: Precedents; Cod's Heard and Mackerel's tail; Sea Venture; Comparative material; Principles of construction sequence; Hull; Shipwrights and status; Ships of war and trade: divergence and convergence
7. A new technology: Background; SL4; Hull structure; The ship and its materials; A reconstruction; SL 4 building sequence; Repairs and miscellaneous features; Implications
8. Carvel building in retrospect: Structures and materials; Ribs and skins; New materials, new ideas
9. Maritime material culture: The new versus the old: Innovations and laggards; Specific circumstancesand general explanations; Stress response; History to prehistory: directions and potential; Boats in the mind, boats in reality
Glossary
Apendices: Narrow escape from shipwreck; 17th Century ship design
References
Index
Índices
| Localización permanente | Código de barras | Signatura | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fundación Juanelo Turriano | 8506 | 48/82 |
In the last fifty years the investigation of maritime archaeological sites in the sea, in the coastal zone and in their interconnecting locales, has emerged as one of archaeology's most dynamic and fast developing fields. No longer a niche interest, maritime archaeology is recognised as having central relevance in the integrated study of the human past. Within maritime archaeology the study of watercraft has been understandably prominent and yet their potential is far from exhausted. In this book Jon Adams evaluates key episodes of technical change in the ways that ships were conceived, designed, built, used and disposed of. As technological puzzles they have long confounded explanation but when viewed in the context of the societies in which they were created, mysteries begin to dissolve. Shipbuilding is social practice and as one of the most complex artefacts made, changes in their technology provide a lens through which to view the ideologies, strategies and agency of social change.
Adams argues that the harnessing of shipbuilding was one of the ways in which medieval society became modern and, while the primary case studies are historical, he also demonstrates that the relationships between ships and society have key implications for our understanding of prehistory in which seafaring and communication had similarly profound effects on the tide of human affairs.
List of figures and tables
Acknowledgements
Preface
1. Pathways and ideas: Premises; Contexts and scope; Foundations; Archaeology or anthropology?; The middle range; Shifting sands; From method to management; Money, policy; law and ethics; Knowing what is here
2. Watercraft: Communication, subsistence, trade and exchange; The first seafarers?; Preservation; Failure or sucess?; Ritual deposition and abandonment; Context and meanings; Time capsules?; Selection; Aggregate value; Ships as things; Reading ships; Ship as society
3. Sources, theories and practice: Images and altered perception; The attrition of time; Discovery, management and acess; Ships of trade; Ships of war; Art or science?; Theory and practice; Technological particulars or social trends?; Data, facts and objectivity; Archaeological historical synthesis; Technology, innovation and social change
4. From medieval to modern: ships of state: Terminology; Technological precedents; Innovation and change; Cultural transmission; Cocha-carrack; From carrack to carvel; Mary Rose; The Kravel: key to a kingdom; Symbols of power; A social context; Principal agents; Innovation; Floating castles: architectural analogies; Dynasty over deity; Guns or barricas?
5. The mysterious hulk: medieval tradition or modern myth?: Proposed hulk characteristics; Proto-hulks?; Late medieval hulks; Perception and the medieval artista; Conclusión
6. Shipwrights, status and power: Precedents; Cod's Heard and Mackerel's tail; Sea Venture; Comparative material; Principles of construction sequence; Hull; Shipwrights and status; Ships of war and trade: divergence and convergence
7. A new technology: Background; SL4; Hull structure; The ship and its materials; A reconstruction; SL 4 building sequence; Repairs and miscellaneous features; Implications
8. Carvel building in retrospect: Structures and materials; Ribs and skins; New materials, new ideas
9. Maritime material culture: The new versus the old: Innovations and laggards; Specific circumstancesand general explanations; Stress response; History to prehistory: directions and potential; Boats in the mind, boats in reality
Glossary
Apendices: Narrow escape from shipwreck; 17th Century ship design
References
Index
Índices
