Archaeology of the Boat

Greenhill, Basil: 1976 USA, hardcover with dustjacket 320 pages, with photos and illustrations. This book brings together existing knowledge on the development of the world's boats, for both the practical archaeologist and the general reader, in a way not done since James Hornell's classic "Water Transport" published 1946. Basil Greenhill, Director of the National Maritime Museum, collates the available evidence on the evolution of boat and shipbuilding through the ages and examines it as a part of the development of changing civilizations, and not just as a catalogue of the world's major boat finds. The book covers the four main roots of boatbuilding - the raft, the skin boat, the bark boat and the dugout - and traces the evolution of each type with particular reference to Europe and North America. Basil Greenhill's study includes the technological revolutions which took place in the 15th century. In very good condition