Ships and boats as archaeological source material
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3919347 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jonathan Adams (0000-0003-3890-4630, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 292-310 |
| Publication date | 2001-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | World Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-8243 • E-ISSN: 1470-1375 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00438240122213 |
| OpenAlex | W4234079666 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 55 |
| References cited | 26 |
So often it is pots that are used to explore social interactions of the past. Yet in so many cultures, ships and boats have acquired such a prominent symbolic profile, it might be argued that they are even more potent carriers of meaning than the pots they so often transported. This paper examines the factors that give watercraft their archaeological potential and argues that we are only just beginning to exploit them to the full
Archaeology · Computer security · Epistemology · Exploit · Geography · Marine engineering · Meaning (existential · Watercraft · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Computer Science · Engineering · History · Law, logistics, and international trade · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
Ports and Shipping
Garden Island Ships’ Graveyard
Adams, Jonathan
A Social History of Dying
Caminos de agua en los humedales ñeembuqueños del Paraguay
Pescadores y canoas entre dos aguas. La comunidad pesquera de Tasajeras (Magdalena, Colombia)
Seeking a common ground for the Nautical Archaeology Digital Library (Nadl). Reflections on science, method, theory and templates
The Formation of a West African Maritime Seascape
Mare Nostrum? Ethics and Archaeology in Mediterranean Waters
A transdisciplinary co‐conceptualisation of marine identity
Sourcing Wood for Early Mediterranean Ships in the Late Bronze and Iron Ages
Indigenous women and traditional watercraft in native South America
Fieldwork Methodology in South American Maritime Archaeology
Creating Order or Revealing Disorder? Some Preliminary Results Using Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) in Studying Archaeological Boat Finds from Norway (AD 1050–1700)
Concretion
Astilleros y canoas en la Ciénaga Grande
Digital Archaeology Underwater
To put a cedar ship in a bottle
Motorways of Prehistory? Boats, Rivers and Moving in Mesolithic Ireland
The Human Experience of Seafaring in Prehistoric Times
Archaeology Hijacked
Archaeometric and Archaeometallurgical Studies on Historical Shipwrecks
For Sale or Sailors? Towards a Galley Ware Functional Designation Methodology
Trees and Monoxylous Canoes
Marineras silenciosas. El rol náutico de las mujeres en las sociedades preestatales yámanas/kawésqar y massim
On Defining the Identity of Vessels
Archaeological, Historical, and Ethnographic Approaches to the Study of Sewn Boats
Traditional Shipbuilding on the Island of Samos, Greece
Industrialisation, Warfare, and Science
Metal shipwrecks in Patagonia, Argentina
Assessing the Damage and Remaining Archaeological Potential of Commercially Salvaged Sites at Mozambique Island
Cultural biographies, cognitive landscapes and dirty old bits of boat
Do Ships Shape the Shore? An Analysis of the Credibility of Ship Archaeological Evidence for Landing Site Morphology in the Baltic Sea
From Rescue to Research
Kuggmaren 1
Using Open-Data Portals, Remote Sensing and Computational Modelling to Investigate Historic Wreck Sites and Their Environments
The Thaikkal‐Kadakkarappally Boat
Navigating Tradition
Sea Warriors
The Hawārī of Socotra, Yemen
Egy kora bronzkori bödönhajó nyomában
Argonauts of the North Sea - a Social Maritime Archaeology for the 2nd Millennium BC
The 4th-century B.C. shipwreck at Mazotos, Cyprus
Shipwreck detection in bathymetry data using semi-automated methods
Life history of the Yangzi Estuary II shipwreck
Localización y registro de canoas monóxilas en el río Magdalena y ciénagas adyacentes (Colombia)
Metamorphosis Afloat
Future Promises for Contemporary Social and Cultural Geographies of the Sea
The Ship in Geography and the Geographies of Ships
Optimising protocols for high-definition imaging of historic shipwrecks using multibeam echosounder
Dating Mediterranean shipwrecks
La canoa monóxila y el saber inmaterial de sus últimos carpinteros
The phenomenon of the phantom place
Ancient Shipwrecks of the Mediterranean and the Roman Provinces
Natural Formation Processes and the Archaeological Record
Two decades of women in prehistory and in archaeology in Norway. A review
The reconstruction of the neo-Assyrian army. As depicted on the Assyrian palace reliefs, 745-612 BC
The Regal Ships and Divine Kingdom
Material Culture and Typology
The history of crannog survey and excavation in Scotland
Sea Venture. An interim report on an early 17th century shipwreck lost in 1609
The Oskarshamn cog. Part I
Excavation versus sustainability in situ
The maritime cultural landscape
Romano-Celtic boats and ships
Sea Venture
Iron Men, Wooden Women
The Archaeology of the Hasholme Logboat
Underwater Archaeology
Principles of Archaeological Stratigraphy
The Ferriby Boats
Hjortspring
European wetlands in prehistory
Analytical approaches in maritime archaeology
Iron Men, Wooden Women
The Constitution of Society
| Unique citing works | 53 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,29 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2026 (25) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 55 |