Close Encounters: Sea- and Riverborne Trade, Ports and Hinterlands, Ship Construction and Navigation in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and in Modern Time

Pasquinucci, Marinella; Weski, Timm

doi:doi:10.30861/9781841716367

Close Encounters: Sea- and Riverborne Trade, Ports and Hinterlands, Ship Construction and Navigation in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and in Modern Time

Marinella Pasquinucci and Timm Weski 2004 © BAR Publishing

The 18 papers in this volume are derived from papers presented at the Lisbon EAA conference in 2000. The work studies the links between trade and local production and between sea routes, shipbuilding and navigation techniques in a diachronic perspective from Antiquity to the Middle Ages and Modern times, in areas of the Ancient and of the New World, through historical sources including urban and settlement archaeology, landscape and underwater archaeology.

Series

BAR pre-2020
BAR International Series pre-2020

ISBN(s)

9781841716367 (paperback)
9781407327051 (ebook)

BAR Number

S1283

Subject

Roman
Trade / Exchange / Travel / Economy
Early Modern and Modern
Late Antiquity and Byzantium
Migration Period, Early Medieval and Medieval
Mediterranean
Western Europe and Britain
Maritime and Underwater Archaeology
Multiperiod

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Front Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Abstract
The role of Genoa in the Mediterranean trade in Antiquity
Cagliari and its Hinterland from the Archaic to the Late Roman Age
The Adriatic Amphora Type 1.2 Recovered from the Environment of Cartagena (Murcia, Spain)
Two major trading routes of the Roman Antiquity in Southern Gaul: The Narbonne-Toulouse road and the Rhône way towards Arles
Commercial flows, ports and hinterlands in North Coastal Etruria (late Republican - late Roman period)
The Mediterranean coarse ware pottery trade (3rd century BC-7th century AD)
Inland navigation in ancient Northern Italy: The port of Ticinum
Ports and Trade in the ager Cosanus and on Giglio Island from the Mid to Late Imperial Age
The Punta Ala “B wreck”: a mixed cargo of the Hadrianic Period
Ancient riverborne transport of heavy loads
Terra sigillata and amphorae from the Roman Villa at Tourega (Évora, Portugal)
A fluvial harbour of the Roman period at Valentia (Hispania Tarraconensis)
Access to international trade in Middle Saxon England: a case of urban over-emphasis?
A Modern Experiment in 16-17th Century Celestial Navigation at Sea: The Mariner’s Astrolabe and Cross-staff
Preliminary assessment of the daily life on board an Iberian ship from the beginning of the 17th century (Terceira, Açores)
Whale-oil casks and Atlantic trade networks, circa 1565
The Waterfront Archaeology of Early Modern St John’s, Newfoundland
1817. From Trieste to Pesaro. Last voyage of the “Arduz”

Close Encounters: Sea- and Riverborne Trade, Ports and Hinterlands, Ship Construction and Navigation in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and in Modern Time

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