TY - BOOK AU - Anderson,Atholl AU - Barrett,James H. AU - Boyle,Katherine V. TI - The global origins and development of seafaring T2 - McDonald Institute monographs, SN - 9781902937526 (hardcover) AV - D95 .G55 2010 PY - 2010/// CY - Cambridge, UK, Oakville, CT PB - McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Distributed by Oxbow Books KW - Naval history, Ancient KW - Seafaring life KW - History KW - To 1500 KW - Sailing KW - Ships, Ancient KW - Shipbuilding KW - Navigation KW - Human beings KW - Migrations KW - Human settlements KW - Colonization KW - Commerce KW - To 500 N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; pt. 1. Introduction --- The origins and development of seafaring : towards a global approach / Atholl Anderson -- pt. 2. Inferences of early seafaring -- Neptune's children : the evolution of human seafaring / Jon McVey Erlandson -- Earliest coastal settlement, marine palaeoeconomies and human dispersal : the Africa-Arabia connection / Geoff Bailey -- Pleistocene migration and colonization in the Indo-Pacific region / Sue O'Connor -- Pleistocene Sahul and the origins of seafaring / James F. O'Connell, Jim Allen, Kristen Hawkes -- Seafaring intensity and island-mainland interaction along the Pacific Coast of North America / Ben Fitzhugh, Dougles J. Kennett -- The first Argonauts : towards the study of the earliest seafaring in the Mediterranean / Albert J. Ammerman -- pt. 3. The development of boats and seafaring -- The global origins of seagoing water transport / Seán McGrail -- Aspects of the origin of Atlantic and Baltic seafaring / Ole Crumlin-Pedersen --; pt. 4. Holocene circumstances and incentives of seafaring -- Pacific voyaging and settlement : issues of biogeography and archaeology, canoe performance and computer simulation / Geoffrey Irwin -- Prehistoric Pacific population movements / Robin G. Allaby [et.al.] -- Seafaring and the development of cultural complexity in Northeast Asia : evidence from the Japanese archipelago / Junko Habu -- Demographic imperatives for island colonists / William F. Keegan -- Island colonization and trade in the Mediterranean / R. Helen Farr -- The social and environmental context of Neolithic seafaring in the Persian Gulf / Robert A. Carter -- A question of life and death? Seafaring and abandonment in the Mediterranean and Pacific Islands / Helen Dawson -- Conceptual modelling of seafaring, climate and early European exploration and settlement of the North Atlantic islands / Andrew J. Dugmore [et.al.] -- pt. 5. Sailing and society -- The sea and the land : maritime connections in the chiefly landscape of Tonga / Geoffrey Clark -- Evidence for the Austronesian voyages in the Indian Ocean / Roger Blench -- "Ships a-sail from over the rim of the sea" : voyaging, sailing and the making of Mediterranean societies. c. 3500-800 BC / Cyprian Broodbank -- Seafaring on the Atlantic seaboard / Barry Cunliffe -- "Horses are strong at sea" : the liminal aspect of the maritime cultural landscape / Christer Westerdahl -- Rounding up the usual suspects : causation and the Viking Age diaspora / James H. Barrett -- pt. 6. Conclusion -- Histories of global seafaring : a discussion / James H. Barrett, Atholl Anderson ER -