Ships, Boats, Ports, Trade, and War in the Mediterranean and Beyond: Proceedings of the Maritime Archaeology Graduate Symposium 2018

This volume gathers papers presented at the Maritime Archaeology Graduate Symposium, held in Oxford in 2018. The event was an Honor Frost Foundation initiative dedicated to new and upcoming research focused on eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and realised by a committee from the Centre for Maritime Archaeology, University of Southampton, and the Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology, University of Oxford. These essays represent the proceedings of this conference and contain some of the latest research and fieldwork in the Mediterranean and beyond. Topics include ships, ports and port systems, maritime economics, chemical analysis of archaeological remains and legislation in maritime archaeology. This publication is the product of an endeavour to promote early career research for maritime archaeologists with unique foci, and to establish a platform for them to discuss their findings with the wider community. With an introduction by Lucy Blue and Naseem Raad Front Cover Title Page Copyright Of Related Interest TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword 1. Introduction 2. Before ‘Thalassocracies’: Reconstructing the ‘Longboat’ and Rethinking its Use and Social Implications in the 4th and 3rdMillennium South Aegean 3. Technology Behind the Mazarrón Boats: a Virtual 3D Approximation 4. Experimental Archaeology and the Contributory Reconstruction of a Roman Warship 5. Managing the Threat: A Maritime Archaeological Study of the Island of Menorca as a Key Ancillary in the Roman Mediterranean 6. The Roman Port of Berytus 7. The Study of the Port System of the Coast of Almería from the Analysis of the Maritime Cultural Landscape, Eighth – Twelfth Centuries AD 8. The Whole Story: Exploring the Transportation of Whole Olives in Antiquity Through Shipwreck Evidence 9. Piracy in the Hellenistic Period: A Misunderstood Phenomenon 10. Investigating the Role of the Sea in Roman Crete’s Prosperity:A Maritime Archaeological Perspective 11. Cultural Underwater Heritage of the South Pacific Armada 12. Maritime Archaeology in Biscay, Basque Country: Facts, Acts, Research and Opportunities 13. Pioneers of Maritime Activity: The Uses and Abuses of the Maritime Aspects of Phoenician Culture 14. Exploring Hominin Movement Patterns in the Lower Palaeolithic Aegean Dry Land: Methodological Challenges