Research Catalog

Title

The Dover Bronze Age boat in context : society and water transport in prehistoric Europe / Béat Arnold ... [et al.] ; edited by Peter Clark.

Publication

Oxford : Oxbow ; Oakville, CT : David Brown Book Co., c2004.

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Additional Authors

• Clark, Peter.
• Arnold, Béat.
• Clark, Peter (Peter R.), 1959-

Description

152 p. : ill., maps; 28 cm.

Summary

• "The remains of a Bronze Age boat discovered in Dover in 1992 was one of the most important British archaeological finds of the later twentieth century. The complex, perfectly preserved sewn-plank boat, dating from the second millennium BC, was not only a remarkable find in its own right but it also alluded to a highly sophisticated society that made and used the boat more than three and a half millennia ago."
• "The authors build a picture of what life was like at the time that the Dover boat set sail, from its marine environment and seaworthiness, boat-building techniques and materials, to the possible social and religious perceptions of boats and sea voyages more generally. They explore the implications of the discovery for Bronze Age society, water transport and cultural contact in a European context, from the shores of Britain, through northern and central Europe, to the eastern Mediterranean and beyond."--Jacket.

Subject

• Boats, Ancient > Dover > Congresses
• Ships, Ancient > Europe, Northern > Congresses
• Antiquities, Prehistoric > Europe, Northern > Congresses
• Bronze age > Europe, Northern > Congresses
• Shipbuilding > Europe, Northern > History > Congresses
• Bronze age > Dover > Congresses
• Boats, Prehistoric > Dover > Congresses
• Navigation, Prehistoric > Europe, Northern > Congresses
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Dover > Congresses
• Dover (England) > Antiquities > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / Frank Panton -- 1. The Dover boat ten years after its discovery / Peter Clark -- 2. Evidence of a marine environment associated with the Dover boat / Christopher Green -- 3. Reconstructing the Dover boat / Peter Marsden -- 4. The legacy of Ted Wright / John Coates -- 5. Some thoughts on boats as Bronze Age artefacts / Francis Pryor -- 6. Round the headland or over the horizon? ; an examination of evidence for British prehistoric efforts to construct a seaworthy boat / Owain Roberts -- 7. North-west European seagoing boats before A.D. 400 / Sean McGrail.

ISBN

1842171399 (pbk.)

OCLC

56652536

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library