Boats, Ships and Shipyards : Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology, Venice 2000

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Pub. Date: 2003-12-01
Publisher(s): David Brown Book Co
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From sewn planked boats in Early Dynastic Egypt to Late Roman wrecks in Italy, and the design of Venetian Merchant Galleys, this huge volume gathers together fifty-three papers presenting new research on the archaeology and history of ancient ships and shipbuilding traditions. The papers have been grouped into several thematic sections, including: ships of the Mediterranean; the reconstruction of ancient ships, from life-size reconstructions to computer models; the study of shipyards, shipsheds and slipways of the Mediterranean and Europe; Venetian Galleys of the 15th and 16th centuries; and North European medieval and post-medieval ships. These papers which were presented at the Ninth International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology (ISBSA), held in Venice 2000.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors
viii
Introduction xiii
Carlo Beltrame
A. Introductory Papers
Maritime Archaeology and the ISBSA -- Where to in the 21st Century?
1(6)
Frederick M. Hocker
Nautical Archaeology in Italy: Past, Present and Future
7(3)
Carlo Beltrame
The Arsenal of Venice and the Art of Building Ships
10(4)
Mauro Bondioli
B. Mediterranean Ships
Neolithic Watercraft in Greece: Circumstantial Evidence and Serious Guesses
14(5)
Christina Marangou
Sewn Planked Boats from Early Dynastic Abydos, Egypt
19(5)
Cheryl A. Ward
Towards the Determination of Mycenaean Shipbuilding Techniques, Tools and Materials
24(4)
Dimitra Kamarinou
Mortise-and-Tenon Joints of Bronze Age Seagoing Ships
28(7)
Cemal Pulak
Timber Supply and Ancient Naval Architecture
35(7)
Frederic Guibal
Patrice Pomey
The Late-Roman ``Parco di Teodorico'' Wreck, Ravenna, Italy: Preliminary Remarks on the Hull and the Shipbuilding
42(7)
Stefano Medas
Dor D Wreck, Tantura Lagoon, Israel
49(8)
Yaacov Kahanov
C. Reconstruction of Ships
Reconstruction of Marseilles 6th century BC Greek ships
57(9)
Patrice Pomey
The Late-Roman Fiumicino 1 Wreck: Reconstructing the Hull
66(5)
Giulia Boetto
The Reconstruction of the Ladby Ship -- Using a Working Spline Model and Computer
71(10)
Vibeke Bischoff
D. The Shipyards
Progress in the Study of Ancient Shipsheds: a Review
81(10)
David Blackman
Ancient Slipways and Shipsheds on the Israeli Coast of the Mediterranean
91(12)
Avner Raban
Operating on Shipsheds and Slipways: Evidence of Underwater Configuration of Slipways from the Neosoikos of `Trypiti'
103(6)
Kalliopi Baika
An Early Roman Boatyard at Mainz, Germany
109(4)
Olaf Hockmann
Essay to Restore the Operating Process of a Shipyard in the Early Medieval Period: the Example of the Port Berteau II Wreck, Charente-Maritime, France
113(6)
Eric Rieth
Nails for Shipbuilding (13th--20th centuries)
119(5)
Furio Ciciliot
How Were Vessels Designed before the Late-Medieval Period?
124(8)
Sean McGrail
The Hogendijk Shipyard in Zaandam and the VOC Shipyard Oostenburg in Amsterdam. Examples of Recent Archaeological Slipway Research in the Netherlands
132(12)
Jerzy Gawronski
Moulds, Rising Boards and Bevel Boards. The Wooden Memory of the Shipyard of Le Locum, Lake Geneva
144(8)
Paul Bloesch
The Tyrrell's Boatyard of Arklow, County Wicklow, Ireland
152(2)
Darina Tully
E. Inland Boats
Tracing Ship Traffic without Ships -- Alternative Methods of Finding Evidence for Pre-and Early Historical Inland Water Transport
154(6)
Ulrike Teigelake
Thoughts on the Typology of Stone Age Boat Petroglyphs from the White Sea and Lake Onega, Russia
160(9)
Maik-Jens Springmann
A Roman River Barge (?) Found in the Danube near Prahovo, Serbia
169(8)
Ronald Bockius
Expanded Logboats between the Baltic and the Black Sea
177(6)
Waldemar Ossowski
A New Look at the Utrecht Ship
183(7)
Aleydis Van de Moortel
Investigation of Traditional Boatbuilding for the Reconstruction of Medieval Russian Boats
190(5)
Petr Sorokin
Wooden Shipbuilding on Lake Constance before 1900
195(6)
Dietrich Hakelberg
F. The Galleys
The Sailing Qualities of Venetian Great Galleys in the 15th Century. Evidence of their Influence on the Development of Sailing Ships in the Atlantic Area during the Following Century
201(11)
Sergio Bellabarba
The Venetian Merchant Galley and the System of Partisoni -- Initial Steps towards Modern Ship Design
212(10)
Ulrich Alertz
The Art of Designing and Building Venetian Galleys from the 15th to the 16th century
222(6)
Mauro Bondioli
Reportage, Representation and Reality. The Extent to which Chronicle Accounts and Contemporary Illustrations can be relied upon when discussing the Tactics used in Medieval Galley Warfare
228(5)
Susan Rose
Les Galeres de la Vue de Venise de Jacopo de Barberi (1500)
233(8)
Lucien Basch
Kadirga. A Technical Analysis of the Sultan's Galley
241(8)
Erkut Arcak
Drachio in Context
249(4)
Louis Th. Lehmann
G. North European Medieval and Post-Medieval Ships
Variations on a Theme. 11th-century Ship Types of the North
253(8)
Ole Crumlin-Pedersen
The Boat Puck -- 3 in the Light of Investigation of Other Slavic Boats from 9--14th Century
261(5)
Jerzy Litwin
The Szczecin Vessel -- a `Crossroad' of Shipbuilding Traditions or a Representative Artifact of Early Medieval Boatbuilding by Western Slavs?
266(7)
George Indruszewski
Large Cargo Vessels in Danish Waters 1000--1250. Archaeological Evidence for Professional Merchant Seafaring before the Hanseatic Period
273(8)
Anton Englert
Remarks on the Identification of Medieval Ship Types in Northern Europe
281(8)
Timm Weski
Rare Fragments of a 13th Century Clinker Galley found in London and Use of the Irish Wildwoods for Shipbuilding
289(7)
Damian Goodburn
Clenched Lap-Strake Boat Finds from the Netherlands, between 1200 and 1600
296(10)
Andre F.L. van Holk
Illuminating Ships: Integrating the Evidence from Images and Materials in Medieval Europe
306(4)
Joe Flatman
Squares and Stripes: Remarks about Textiles Archaeology and Sails
310(4)
Susan Moller-Wiering
Ships and Private Shipyards through the Archaeological Evidence of the Wreck off La Natiere (Saint-Malo, Brittany, France)
314(6)
Michel L'Hour
Elisabeth Veyrat
The Mysteries of a Baltic Trader
320(9)
Martijn R. Manders
Whipstaff and Helmsman. An Account of the Steering-gear of the Vasa
329(5)
Olof Pipping
H. Integrated Evidence and Replicas
Maritime Ethnography: The Reality of Analogy
334(5)
Lucy Blue
A Comparison between the Earliest Testimonies of Venetian Construction Techniques and those of the Present Day
339(8)
Gilberto Penzo
Reconstruction of the Hjortspring Boat Sailing Tests
347(10)
Knud Vagn Valbjørn
Niels Peter Fenger
Max Vinner
Two Slavonic Boat Reconstructions in the Open Air Museum Gross Raden
357
Trixi Gulland

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