Rope and the art of knot-tying in the seafaring of the ancient Eastern Mediterranean /
although they are less open about knots. Ancient artists
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| Format: | Thesis eBook |
| Language: | English |
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1996.
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| Online Access: | Link to OAKTrust copy |
| Summary: | although they are less open about knots. Ancient artists ancient sites. This thesis is a review of this material from antiquity. assistance of some type of cordage. He may have needed a became increasingly important. Depictions of seagoing but there is some information there. Archaeological remains craft on the beach. And soon he would need lines to hold a deal about rope, and the materials used in its manufacture, Fibers woven into cords or ropes and tied together with knots form one of mankind's earliest tools. When he first went out from antiquity that can open these subjects up to the modern Greek, Phoenician, or Roman -- give some idea of the great have received comparatively little attention. Likewise, the important, but little known subject, and will add to our line tied around a stone that would serve as an anchor, a line to retrieve.his fishing spear, and a line to moor his mast erect so he could raise a sail. In fact, no waterborne not have set sail, have received little attention. Evidence occurs less often, a few knots have also been found on of ancient rope are found on many shipwrecks and, while it onto the water on anything more sophisticated than a simple overall subjects of the making of rope and the art of knot- paddle-driven dugout canoe he had to have done so with the quantities of cordage that would have been required to keep requirement for many different types and sizes of cordage rope. As ships got larger and more complicated, the shipwrecks, or in other nautical contexts, those examples the ancient world. It will provide insight into an these ships at sea. Yet, when rope has been found on ancient tying in the ancient world, both without which ships could understanding of seafaring in the Mediterranean area during vessel, in ancient times, as today, could function without vessels from the ancient eastern Mediterranean -Egyptian, were less revealing with specific detail on rope and knots, world does exist. The Greek and Roman writers reveal a great |
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| Item Description: | "Major subject: Anthropology". Vita. |
| Physical Description: | xi, 153 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm. Also available online. Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |