Seafaring and Seafarers in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean

by A. Bernard Knapp

Book Overview

Seafaring is a mode of travel, a way to traverse maritime space that enables not only the transport of goods and materials but also of people and ideas -- communicating and sharing knowledge across the sea and between different lands. Seagoing ships under sail were operating between the Levant, Egypt, Cyprus and Anatolia by the mid-third millennium BC and within the Aegean by the end of that millennium. By the Late Bronze Age (after ca. 1700/1600...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9088905541
• ISBN13: 9789088905544
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Sidestone Press
• Length: 285 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 9.9"