Browsing by Subject "Mediterranean"
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Extracting Cultural Information from Ship Timber
(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 ... -
Foreign Women on the Ancient Mediterranean Sea
(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 ... -
Framing the Debate: A Study of the Development of Ship Framing in the Mediterranean from the 5th Century B.C.E. to the 9th Century C.E.
(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 ... -
A Study of Lead Ingot Cargoes from Ancient Mediterranean Shipwrecks
(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 ... -
The Phoenician Trade Network: Tracing a Mediterranean Exchange System
(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 ... -
Trade, piracy, and naval warfare in the central Mediterranean: the maritime history and archaeology of Malta
(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, ...