Browsing by Subject "Mediterranean"
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(2021-05-05)The Mediterranean World is no stranger to naval conflict. In ancient Egypt, Pharaoh Rameses III fought the “Sea Peoples” as they attacked his kingdom and others in the Eastern Mediterranean ca. 1175 B.C.E. Galleys with ...
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(2012-02-14)This dissertation is rooted in one general question: what can the wood from ships reveal about the people and cultures who built them? Shipwrecks are only the last chapter of a complex story, and while the last fifty ...
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(2015-09-25)Throughout history, the roles of men and women have been sharply divided due to in part each gender’s strengths and weaknesses, as well as the customs and beliefs of the various cultures in which they resided. Although men ...
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(2016-12-08)This study is a selective compendium of measurements and features relating to framing from Mediterranean shipwrecks dating from the 5th century B.C.E. through the 9th century C.E., with the goal of better understanding the ...
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(2021-07-29)Nautical archaeologists over many decades have uncovered a plethora of Mediterranean shipwrecks from different periods. Debates about how shipbuilders organized, designed, and constructed ships developed alongside the ...
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(2012-11-15)The Phoenicians were known as artisans, merchants, and seafarers by the 10th century B.C.E. They exchanged raw and finished goods with people in many cultural spheres of the ancient world and accumulated wealth in the ...
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(2011-10-21)Lead is often relegated to a footnote or sidebar in the study of ancient metals. However, the hundreds of lead ingots discovered in underwater sites over the past half-century have attested to the widespread production and ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)Located approximately in the middle of the central Mediterranean channel, the Maltese Archipelago was touched by the historical events that effected the political, economic and cultural environment of Europe, North Africa, ...