Argonauts of the North Sea - a Social Maritime Archaeology for the 2nd Millennium BC
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11002787 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Van De Noort (University of Exeter, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 72 |
| Pages | 267-287 |
| Publication date | 2006-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0079-497X • E-ISSN: 2050-2729 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0079497x00000852 |
| OpenAlex | W2113550371 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
| References cited | 40 |
This paper aims to offer a new analysis of the social dimensions of seafaring in the 2nd millennium BC and a consideration of the role of seafaring in (re)creating the social order at the time through its economic, sociopolitical and ritual significance. It revisits the sewn-plank boats from Ferriby, Kilnsea, Dover, Calidcot, Testwood Lakes, Goldcliff and Brigg, and aspects of the way in which seafarers signified themselves and their world through their imagined relationship with the environment are illuminated. The study argues that in the Early Bronze Age, sewn-plank boats were used for directional, long-distance journeys, aimed at the ‘cosmological acquisition’ of exotic goods, and the contexts of these boats link the overseas journeys to the ancestors. In the Middle and Late Bronze Age, sewn-plank boats were used for down-the-line exchange, and fragments of sewn-plank boats were included in structured deposits, within or near river crossings, reflecting the idioms of transformation and regeneration which are well established for this period. Through the reconstruction of the boats' crews, it is suggested that the development of a retinue was a prerequisite for the successful completion of the long-distance journeys, and the social identities that were cultivated during these voyages are recognised as a potentially important element in the rise of elite groups in the Early Bronze Age
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Bronze Age · Elite · Ethnology · Geography · Order (exchange · Period (music · Plank · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Engineering · History · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
Les « princes de la Manche »
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Change Versus Continuity Across the Late Bronze–Early Iron Age Transition
Early Boats in Scandinavia
Connectivity Between Northern Iberia and Western France (2900–1100 cal bc)
The Re‐Assessment and Reconstruction of Excavated Boats
Morgawr
Logboats from Bohemia and Moravia, Czech Republic
Boats Apart. Building and Equipping an Iron-Age and Early-Medieval Ship in Northern Europe
Copper ingots from a probable Bronze Age shipwreck off the coast of Salcombe, Devon
Tin ingots from a probable Bronze Age shipwreck off the coast of Salcombe, Devon
Offshore Finds From the Bronze Age in North‐western Europe
Biscay and Beyond? Prehistoric Voyaging between Two Finisterres
Simulating the Western Seaways
The Clandon Barrow Finery
Adorning the Living but Not the Dead
Maritime Havens in Earlier Prehistoric Britain
A Noble Group of Barrows’
Evidence of Large Vessels and Sail in Bronze Age Scandinavia
Riding, Ruling, and Resistance
Argonauts of the Western Pacific
The Sources of Social Power
European Societies in the Bronze Age
Social formation and symbolic landscape
Ulysses' Sail
Symbolic and Structural Archaeology
Argonauts of the western Pacific
Archaeologies of identity
The Boats from North Ferriby, Yorkshire, England, with a review of the origins of the sewn boats of the Bronze Age
Shipwrights, Sailors and Society in the Middle Bronze Age of NW Europe
Beyond Transgressive Lands and Forgotten Seas
Llong Casnewydd
Patterns in a Rocky Land
An Early Bronze Age Burial in a Boat-shaped Wooden Coffin from North-east Yorkshire
Excavation of The Kilham Long Barrow, East Riding of Yorkshire
Power Pulses Across a Cultural Divide
Middle Bronze Age trade between Britain and Europe
Houses, Lifecycles and Deposition on Middle Bronze Age Settlements in Southern England
A place for the dead
The Survey and Excavation of a Bronze Age Timber Circle at Holme-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, 1998–9
The Ferriby Boats
"Flemming Kaul, "Ships on Bronzes. A Study in Bronze Age Religion and Iconography
The Warrior's Beauty
The Beaker Folk
New AMS radiocarbon dates for the North Ferriby boats—a contribution to dating prehistoric seafaring in northwestern Europe
The ‘Kilnsea-boat’, and some implications from the discovery of England's oldest plank boat remains
Fragmentation in Archaeology
Inalienable Possessions
The sea and archaeology
An ancient seascape
Ships and boats as archaeological source material
The ship as symbol in the prehistory of Scandinavia and Southeast Asia
Submerged Boat at North Ferriby (Plates V-VI)
The Amesbury Archer
Ulysses without sails
| Citations per year | 1.05 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2006 - 2025 (20) |
| Highly cited | No |