Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- Introduction générale et remerciements par Christian Buchet
- General introduction and acknowledgements
- Introduction (français)
- Introduction (English)
- La mer est le propre d'Homo sapiens
- PREHISTORICAL CASE STUDIES
- HISTORIAL CASE STUDIES: The Ancient Near East and Pharaonic Egypt
- HISTORICAL CASE STUDIES: The Mediterranean world
- Mediterranean ship technology in Antiquity
- Greek colonization, connectivity, and the Middle Sea
- Les infrastructures portuaires antiques
- Alexandria and the sea in Hellenistic and Roman times
- The development of Roman maritime trade after the Second Punic war
- La mer et l'approvisionnement de la ville de Rome
- The Roman Empire and the seas
- Les techniques de pêche dans l'Antiquité
- The consumption of salted fish in the Roman Empire
- Taxing the sea
- Les détroits méditerranéens dans la construction de l'image de la mer Intérieure dans l'Antiquité
- Ancient sea routes in the Black Sea
- Maritime risk and ritual responses: sailing with the gods in the Ancient Mediterranean
- La mer, vecteur d'expansion du christianisme au Ier siècle
- Maritime military practices in the pre-Phoenician Levant
- La naissance des flottes en Egée
- The Athenian maritime empire of the fifth century BC
- Financial, human, material and economic resources required to build and operate navies in the classical Greek world
- Les expéditions athéniennes en Sicile, ou la difficulté pour une marine de garder sa supériorité
- Pourquoi Alexandre le Grand a-t-il choisi de licencier sa flotte à Milet?
- Hellenistic and Roman republican naval warfare technology
- La marine de guerre romaine de 284 à 363
- Rome and the Vandals
- HISTORICAL CASE STUDIES: The Indian Ocean and the Far East
- Conclusion (français)
- Conclusion (English)
- Conclusion générale par Christian Buchet
- General conclusion
- Comprendre le rôle de la mer dans L'histoire pour éclairer notre avenir
- Understanding the role the sea has played in our past in order to shed light on our future!
Mediterranean ship technology in Antiquity
from HISTORICAL CASE STUDIES: The Mediterranean world
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 April 2017
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- Introduction générale et remerciements par Christian Buchet
- General introduction and acknowledgements
- Introduction (français)
- Introduction (English)
- La mer est le propre d'Homo sapiens
- PREHISTORICAL CASE STUDIES
- HISTORIAL CASE STUDIES: The Ancient Near East and Pharaonic Egypt
- HISTORICAL CASE STUDIES: The Mediterranean world
- Mediterranean ship technology in Antiquity
- Greek colonization, connectivity, and the Middle Sea
- Les infrastructures portuaires antiques
- Alexandria and the sea in Hellenistic and Roman times
- The development of Roman maritime trade after the Second Punic war
- La mer et l'approvisionnement de la ville de Rome
- The Roman Empire and the seas
- Les techniques de pêche dans l'Antiquité
- The consumption of salted fish in the Roman Empire
- Taxing the sea
- Les détroits méditerranéens dans la construction de l'image de la mer Intérieure dans l'Antiquité
- Ancient sea routes in the Black Sea
- Maritime risk and ritual responses: sailing with the gods in the Ancient Mediterranean
- La mer, vecteur d'expansion du christianisme au Ier siècle
- Maritime military practices in the pre-Phoenician Levant
- La naissance des flottes en Egée
- The Athenian maritime empire of the fifth century BC
- Financial, human, material and economic resources required to build and operate navies in the classical Greek world
- Les expéditions athéniennes en Sicile, ou la difficulté pour une marine de garder sa supériorité
- Pourquoi Alexandre le Grand a-t-il choisi de licencier sa flotte à Milet?
- Hellenistic and Roman republican naval warfare technology
- La marine de guerre romaine de 284 à 363
- Rome and the Vandals
- HISTORICAL CASE STUDIES: The Indian Ocean and the Far East
- Conclusion (français)
- Conclusion (English)
- Conclusion générale par Christian Buchet
- General conclusion
- Comprendre le rôle de la mer dans L'histoire pour éclairer notre avenir
- Understanding the role the sea has played in our past in order to shed light on our future!
Summary
ABSTRACT.This contribution reviews evidence from maritime archaeological sites, especially those dating to the first millennium BC and the first millennium AD, in order to trace the development of ship technology in terms of conception, design and construction. It shows that the main method of ship construction in the Mediterranean from the Late Bronze Age to the fourth century AD was shellbased, with some variations. It suggests that the introduction of a frame-based method and the adoption of lateen sailing rig in Late Antiquity were motivated primarily by economic considerations.
RÉSUMÉ.Cette contribution examine les vestiges des sites archéologiques marins, et particulièrement ceux datant du Ier millénaire av. J.-C. au Ier millénaire ap. J.-C., afin de retracer l’évolution de la construction navale en termes de conception, d’élaboration et de fabrication. Elle montre que la principale méthode de construction des navires en Méditerranée, de la fin de l’Âge du bronze au IVe siècle ap. J.-C., était basée sur la fabrication de l'enveloppe extérieure (ou « coquille ») de la coque, à quelques variations près. Elle suggère que l'apparition d'une méthode basée sur la fabrication d'une charpente et l'adoption de la voile latine dans l'Antiquité tardive furent principalement motivées par des considérations économiques.
The Mediterranean has played, and continues to play, a critical role in the formation of our understanding of the past interaction between people and the sea. Maritime archaeological activity lies at the heart of our understanding of this and it is clear that from the earliest times human activity has taken place along its shorelines and across its waters. In particular, there is a great abundance of well-preserved maritime archaeological sites, especially those dating to the first millennium BC and the first millennium AD. In the period under review here the archaeological and historical narrative of the Mediterranean traces the expansion of Greek colonists into the eastern and western Mediterranean and the voyages of Phoenician traders along the southern coast and ultimately through the Straits of Gibraltar, heading ever westwards in their quest for mineral resources. We learn of naval engagements between fleets of oared warships numbering in the hundreds, upon which the fate of empires rested, and of mythical heroes engaged in all manner of quests ranging far and wide across the wine-dark sea.
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- The Sea in History - The Ancient World , pp. 199 - 213Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2017