Maritime Archaeology and Ancient Trade in the Mediterranean
Maritime Archaeology and Ancient Trade in the Mediterranean

Author: Andrew Wilson

Publisher: Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781905905171

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Maritime Archaeology and Ancient Trade in the Mediterranean comprises twelve papers that look at the shifting patterns of maritime trade as seen through archaeological evidence across the economic cycle of Classical Antiquity. Papers range from an initial study of Egyptian ship wrecks dating from the sixth to fifth century BC from the submerged harbour of Heracleion-Thonis through to studies of connectivity and trade in the eastern Mediterranean during the Late Antique period. The majority of the papers, however, focus on the high point in ancient maritime trade during the Roman period and examine developments in shipping, port facilities and trading routes.

Maritime Networks in the Ancient Mediterranean World
Maritime Networks in the Ancient Mediterranean World

Author: Justin Leidwanger

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-11-22

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1108429947

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This book uses network ideas to explore how the sea connected communities across the ancient Mediterranean. We look at the complexity of cultural interaction, and the diverse modes of maritime mobility through which people and objects moved. It will be of interest to Mediterranean specialists, ancient historians, and maritime archaeologists.

Roman Seas
Roman Seas

Author: Justin Leidwanger

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0190083654

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Drawing together maritime landscape studies and network analysis, this book offers an archaeological exploration of seaborne economy and connectivity across the Roman eastern Mediterranean, where the material record of shipwrecks and ports reveals multiple evolving regional and interregional systems of interaction.

Ships, Boats, Ports, Trade, and War in the Mediterranean and Beyond
Ships, Boats, Ports, Trade, and War in the Mediterranean and Beyond

Author: Naseem Raad

Publisher:

Published: 2020-01-17

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9781407317021

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This volume presents the proceedings of the Maritime Archaeology Graduate Symposium 2018, a conference sponsored by the Honor Frost Foundation, dedicated to new and upcoming research focused on maritime archaeology in the eastern Mediterranean and beyond.

Under the Mediterranean I
Under the Mediterranean I

Author: Dr Stella Demesticha

Publisher:

Published: 2020-12-14

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9789088909467

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This collection of 19 articles focuses on the archaeology of shipwrecks, harbours, and maritime cultural landscapes in Mediterranean region.

Trade in the Ancient Mediterranean
Trade in the Ancient Mediterranean

Author: Taco Terpstra

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2019-04-09

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0691172080

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How ancient Mediterranean trade thrived through state institutions From around 700 BCE until the first centuries CE, the Mediterranean enjoyed steady economic growth through trade, reaching a level not to be regained until the early modern era. This process of growth coincided with a process of state formation, culminating in the largest state the ancient Mediterranean would ever know, the Roman Empire. Subsequent economic decline coincided with state disintegration. How are the two processes related? In Trade in the Ancient Mediterranean, Taco Terpstra investigates how the organizational structure of trade benefited from state institutions. Although enforcement typically depended on private actors, traders could utilize a public infrastructure, which included not only courts and legal frameworks but also socially cohesive ideologies. Terpstra details how business practices emerged that were based on private order, yet took advantage of public institutions. Focusing on the activity of both private and public economic actors—from Greek city councilors and Ptolemaic officials to long-distance traders and Roman magistrates and financiers—Terpstra illuminates the complex relationship between economic development and state structures in the ancient Mediterranean.

Mediterranean Connections
Mediterranean Connections

Author: A. Bernard Knapp

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-08-25

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1134992769

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Mediterranean Connections focuses on the origin and development of maritime transport containers from the Early Bronze through early Iron Age periods (ca. 3200–700 BC). Analysis of this category of objects broadens our understanding of ancient Mediterranean interregional connections, including the role that shipwrecks, seafaring, and coastal communities played in interaction and exchange. These containers have often been the subject of specific and detailed pottery studies, but have seldom been examined in the context of connectivity and trade in the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean. This broad study: considers the likely origins of these types of vessels; traces their development and spread throughout the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean as archetypal organic bulk cargo containers; discusses the wider impact on Mediterranean connections, transport and trade over a period of 2,500 years covering the Bronze and early Iron Ages. Classical and Near Eastern archaeologists and historians, as well as maritime archaeologists, will find this extensively researched volume an important addition to their library.

Sailing from Polis to Empire
Sailing from Polis to Empire

Author: Emmanuel Nantet

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 127

ISBN-13: 9781783746958

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"What can the architecture of ancient ships tell us about their capacity to carry cargo or to navigate certain trade routes? How do such insights inform our knowledge of the ancient economies that depended on maritime trade across the Mediterranean? These and similar questions lie behind Sailing from Polis to Empire, a fascinating insight into the practicalities of trading by boat in the ancient world. Allying modern scientific knowledge with Hellenistic sources, this interdisciplinary collection brings together experts in various fields of ship archaeology to shed new light on the role played by ships and sailing in the exchange networks of the Mediterranean. Covering all parts of the Eastern Mediterranean, these outstanding contributions delve into a broad array of data - literary, epigraphical, papyrological, iconographic and archaeological - to understand the trade routes that connected the economies of individual cities and kingdoms. Unique in its interdisciplinary approach and focus on the Hellenistic period, this collection digs into the questions that others don't think to ask, and comes up with (sometimes surprising) answers. It will be of value to researchers in the fields of naval architecture, Classical and Hellenistic history, social history and ancient geography, and to all those with an interest in the ancient world or the seafaring life."--Publisher's website.