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Periploi and the Greek Worldview (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily K. DiBiase.

This is an abstract from the "Current Research in Maritime Archaeology" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The periplous is generally considered to be a subset of the popular genre of Greek geographical writing. The surviving examples of periploi, including those physically extant and those cited in other works, were written between the Archaic and Byzantine periods. The word periplous, meaning "sailing around," "circumnavigation," or "coasting...

Polynesian seafaring and navigation: Ocean travel in Anutan culture and society (1988)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard Feinberg.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the EXARC Bibliography, originally compiled by Roeland Paardekooper, and updated. Most of these records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us using the...

The raft Lehi IV: 69 days adrift on the Pacific Ocean (1959)

DOCUMENT Citation Only DeVere Baker.

The Recalibration of a Paradigm for the First Peopling of Greater Australia (1977)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joseph Birdsell. J Allen.

Reconnaissance Survey of the Trinity River Basin, 1976-1977 (1978)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeffrey J. Richner. Joe T. Bagot.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.

Review of "the Navigators" (1984)

DOCUMENT Citation Only R.A. Gould.

Sea Drift: Rafting Adventures in the Wake of Kon-Tiki (2007)

DOCUMENT Citation Only P J Capelotti.

It was the original Survivor series, only without the omnipresent cameras, paramedics, and faux tribal rituals. Between the spring of 1947 and the summer of the year 2000, more than forty expeditions sought to sail the oceans of the world on rafts made from straw, from bamboo, and from the same kinds of wood that children use to make model airplanes. These audacious raft voyages began with the legendary Kon-Tiki expedition, under the leadership of the renowned Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl....

Seafaring in the Pleistocene (2003)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert G Bednarik.

Seafaring then and now (2009)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Séan Mcgrail.

A Shot in the Dark: Assessing the Navigational Capabilities of H.L. Hunley (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Schwalbe.

Early submarines faced many logistical challenges, one of them being the ability to steer and navigate while submerged. The Civil War submarine H.L. Hunley was no exception to this problem. Hunley’s depth and direction while in operation were the responsibility of its captain, who sat in the forward most crew station and, according to the historical and archaeological record, determined the vessel’s course based on a compass and dead reckoning. Recent archaeological study has begun to...

Solar navigation (2007)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rob Bicevskis. David Wescott.

Tahiti Nui (1959)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric de Bisschop.

Testing Wash-Through Watercraft in Three Oceans (1986)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thor Heyerdahl.

Voyage of the Manteño (2006)

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Haslett.

The Warwick Plain Scale: An Early Seventeenth-Century Navigational Instrument (2013)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael J Gilbart.

One of the most intriguing artifacts recovered from the Warwick, is a wooden, mathematical instrument called a plain or ‘plaine’ scale. Plain scales were small, wooden instruments used by ships in the early-17th century. The plain scale allowed pilots and navigators to determine a ship’s position with dividers and the graduated markings on the scale. This paper examines the history of plain scales, the use of the plain scale for navigational and astronomical purposes, and how the Warwick...