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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
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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.
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Front Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright
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Table of Contents
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List of Contributors
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Abstract
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The role of Genoa in the Mediterranean trade in Antiquity
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Cagliari and its Hinterland from the Archaic to the Late Roman Age
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The Adriatic Amphora Type 1.2 Recovered from the Environment of Cartagena (Murcia, Spain)
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Two major trading routes of the Roman Antiquity in Southern Gaul: The Narbonne-Toulouse road and the Rhône way towards Arles
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Commercial flows, ports and hinterlands in North Coastal Etruria (late Republican - late Roman period)
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The Mediterranean coarse ware pottery trade (3rd century BC-7th century AD)
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Inland navigation in ancient Northern Italy: The port of Ticinum
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Ports and Trade in the ager Cosanus and on Giglio Island from the Mid to Late Imperial Age
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The Punta Ala “B wreck”: a mixed cargo of the Hadrianic Period
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Ancient riverborne transport of heavy loads
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Terra sigillata and amphorae from the Roman Villa at Tourega (Évora, Portugal)
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A fluvial harbour of the Roman period at Valentia (Hispania Tarraconensis)
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Access to international trade in Middle Saxon England: a case of urban over-emphasis?
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A Modern Experiment in 16-17th Century Celestial Navigation at Sea: The Mariner’s Astrolabe and Cross-staff
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Preliminary assessment of the daily life on board an Iberian ship from the beginning of the 17th century (Terceira, Açores)
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Whale-oil casks and Atlantic trade networks, circa 1565
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The Waterfront Archaeology of Early Modern St John’s, Newfoundland
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1817. From Trieste to Pesaro. Last voyage of the “Arduz”
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Published: 2004
Publisher: BAR Publishing
- 9781841716367 (paperback)
- 9781407327051 (ebook)
BAR Number: S1283