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Author Van de Noort, Robert, author.

Title North sea archaeologies : a maritime biography, 10,000 BC - AD 1500 / Robert Van de Noort
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 282 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction : the sea is 'good to think' -- An archaeological theory of the sea -- The sea as a dynamic and hybrid landscape -- Fish : exploring the sea as a taskscape -- Socializing coastal landscape -- Archipelagos and islands -- Moving across the North Sea -- The daily practice of seafaring : the ship as heterotopia par excellence -- The cultural biographies of boats -- Conclusions : a maritime biography
Summary 'North Sea Archaeologies' is an innovative study analysing the archaeology of the North Sea, and the way surrounding peoples engaged with it, from the end of the last ice age, c.10,000 BC, to the close of the Middle Ages, c.AD 1500
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Underwater archaeology -- North Sea
Water-saturated sites (Archaeology) -- North Sea
HISTORY -- World.
Antiquities
Underwater archaeology
Water-saturated sites (Archaeology)
SUBJECT North Sea -- Antiquities
Subject Atlantic Ocean -- North Sea
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010937009
ISBN 9780191634376
0191634379
9780191917844
0191917842
9781283577618
1283577615