Connected by the Sea : Proceedings of the Tenth International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology, Denmark 2003

The 10th International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology was held in Roskilde, Denmark in 2003. The theme of the meeting was "Connected by the Sea", and was designed to emphasize the role of the sea, seafaring and watercraft as bridges rather than barriers. Maritime archaeology tends to take place within national borders, with a national focus, yet the very premise of seafaring is the desire to travel beyond the horizon to establish contact with other places and cultures. The conference theme was chosen to encourage the maritime archaeological community to think in international terms. List of Contributors -- Preface -- Keynote address: An international forum for nautical research 1976-2003 -- Seán McGrail: Walking on water: Maritime archaeology by air, land and sea -- A. Experimental Archaeology -- Chapter 1: Experimental archaeology and ships - principles, problems and examples -- Chapter 2: Experimental boat archaeology: Has it a future? -- Chapter 3: Experimental archaeology at the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde -- Chapter 4: History written in tool marks -- Chapter 5: Reconstruction of rope for the copy of Skuldelev 2: Rope in the Viking Period -- Chapter 6: Trial voyages as a method of experimental archaeology: The aspect of speed -- Chapter 7: An example of experimental archaeology and the construction of a full-scale research model of the Cavalière ship's hull -- Chapter 8: Reconstruction of the large Borobudur outrigger sailing craft -- Chapter 9: The construction and trials of a half-scale model of the Early Bronze Age ship, Ferriby 1, to assess the capability of the full-size ship -- Chapter 10: The value of experimental archaeology for reconstructing ancient seafaring -- Chapter 11: The Pacific migrations by canoe-form craft -- B. Theoretical issues in the construction of ships -- Chapter 12: New light on the false clinkers in ancient Mediterranean shipbuilding -- Chapter 13: A preliminary report on the hull characteristics of the Gallo-Roman EP1-Taillebourg wreck (Charente-Maritime, France): archaeological evidence of regional practices of ancient flat-bottomed construction? -- Chapter 14: The Dor 2001/1 wreck, Dor/Tantura Lagoon, Israel: Preliminary Report -- Chapter 15: A hypothesis on the development of Mediterranean ship construction from Antiquity to the Late Midde Ages -- Chapter 16: Geometric rules in early medieval ships: Evidence from the Bozburun and Serçe Limani vessels The 10th International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology was held in Roskilde, Denmark in 2003. The theme of the meeting was "Connected by the Sea", and was designed to emphasise the role of the sea, seafaring and watercraft as bridges rather than barriers.