The Archaeology of Seafaring in Small-Scale Societies
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The Archaeology of Seafaring in Small-Scale Societies

Negotiating Watery Worlds

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The Archaeology of Seafaring in Small-Scale Societies

Negotiating Watery Worlds

About this book

This book will be available in an open access edition thanks to the generous support by the Lund University Library and the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology at Lund University.

Exploring how ancient peoples developed seafaring technology and used watercraft to support and transform their societies

The development of seafaring technology throughout history expanded geographical and social horizons—powering human mobility and interaction, structuring social contexts, shaping worldviews, and effecting political centralization. This volume examines how watercraft have served as groundbreaking innovations throughout human history, focusing on small-scale societies in saltwater environments.

Using archaeological, historical, and ethnographic evidence, contributors examine settlement patterns in western Patagonia, whale hunting by Megalithic societies in Brittany, maritime mobility in Baja California, Coast Salish trip lengths, and Inuit connections to boats and the sea in the Eastern Arctic. Themes explored include the technological capacities of watercraft and the humans who propelled them, the role of watercraft in production and consumption of resources, the impacts of widespread travel on social networks, and the phenomenological experience of seafaring. The Archaeology of Seafaring in Small-Scale Societies illuminates the complex interplays that sustained past watery worlds and highlights the necessity of studying the subject with a holistic and globally comparative approach.

Contributors: Bettina Schulz Paulsson | Peter Jordan | Jordi A. Rivera Prince | Matthew Des Lauriers | Colin Grier | Greer Jarrett | Mikael Fauvelle | Nelson Aguilera | Peter Whitridge | Claudia García-Des Lauriers | Alberto García-Piquer | Raquel Piqué | Adam Rorabaugh | Erin Smith | Victor D. Thompson

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. About the Author
  6. Contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. List of Tables
  9. Foreword
  10. Acknowledgments
  11. 1. Why Boats Matter: Breaking Down Terrestrial Bias in Archaeology
  12. 2. Navigating Paradigms: Seafaring, Settlement Patterns, and Social Interaction in Southernmost South America
  13. 3. Seascapes of the Unreal: Using Agent-Based Modeling to Examine Traditional Coast Salish Maritime Mobility
  14. 4. Were Sperm Whales Hunted by Megalithic Communities in Brittany, France, During the Fifth Millennium cal BCE?
  15. 5. Seascapes and Society on the Forgotten Peninsula: The Watercraft and Conceptual Geography of Baja California, Mexico
  16. 6. Kanči: Indigenous Seafaring, Watercraft Diversity, and Cultural Contact in Southern Patagonia
  17. 7. Collective Action, Transport Costs, Watercraft Technologies, and the Engineered Ancestral Landscapes of Southern Florida
  18. 8. The Transformative Power of Boats: Seafaring, Maritime Interaction, and Social Complexity
  19. 9. Going by Boat-Being: An Indigenous Ontological Approach to Watercraft in the Pacific Northwest Coast
  20. 10. Precontact Inuit Watercraft and the Hunter–Prey Actantial Hinge
  21. 11. Caballito de Totora Assemblages in Ancient and Modern Huanchaco, Peru
  22. 12. Toward, Not To: Seafaring Worldviews from Viking Age and High Medieval Norway
  23. 13. Negotiating Watery Worlds: Crafting a Research Agenda
  24. List of Contributors
  25. Index