The Archaeology of Seafaring in Small-Scale Societies (eBook)

Negotiating Watery Worlds

Alberto García-Piquer, Mikael Fauvelle, Colin Grier (Herausgeber)

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2025
320 Seiten
University Press of Florida (Verlag)
978-0-8130-7511-2 (ISBN)

Infos

This book will be available in an open access edition thanks to the generous support by the Lund University Library and the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology at Lund University.Exploring how ancient peoples developed seafaring technology and used watercraft to support and transform their societiesThe development of seafaring technology throughout history expanded geographical and social horizonspowering human mobility and interaction, structuring social contexts, shaping worldviews, and effecting political centralization. This volume examines how watercraft have served as groundbreaking innovations throughout human history, focusing on small-scale societies in saltwater environments.Using archaeological, historical, and ethnographic evidence, contributors examine settlement patterns in western Patagonia, whale hunting by Megalithic societies in Brittany, maritime mobility in Baja California, Coast Salish trip lengths, and Inuit connections to boats and the sea in the Eastern Arctic. Themes explored include the technological capacities of watercraft and the humans who propelled them, the role of watercraft in production and consumption of resources, the impacts of widespread travel on social networks, and the phenomenological experience of seafaring. The Archaeology of Seafaring in Small-Scale Societies illuminates the complex interplays that sustained past watery worlds and highlights the necessity of studying the subject with a holistic and globally comparative approach.Contributors: Bettina Schulz Paulsson | Peter Jordan | Jordi A. Rivera Prince | Matthew Des Lauriers | Colin Grier | Greer Jarrett | Mikael Fauvelle | Nelson Aguilera | Peter Whitridge | Claudia Garca-Des Lauriers | Alberto Garca-Piquer | Raquel Piqu | Adam Rorabaugh | Erin Smith | Victor D. Thompson

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.12.2025
• Reihe/Serie: Society and Ecology in Island and Coastal Archaeology
• Zusatzinfo: 67 b/w illus., 5 tables, bibliography, index
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Baja California • boat use • bodies of water • Calusa • canoe construction • coastal living • coastlines • Coast Salish region • Eastern Arctic • experimental archaeogaming • Fuego-Patagonia • Huanchaco • human past • Inuit hunters • Kawésqar • maritime lifeways • maritime mobility • Megalithic societies in Brittany • open-ocean travel • Peru • Saltwater • Seascapes • small-scale societies • water resources • Western Patagonia
• ISBN-10: 0-8130-7511-4 / 0813075114
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8130-7511-2 / 9780813075112