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Archaeology of Seafaring in Small-Scale Societies

Negotiating Watery Worlds

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

AvAlberto García-Piquer,Mikael Fauvelle,Colin Grier,Alberto Garcia-Piquer

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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 societiesThe 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

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2025-12-16
Mått156 x 235 x 21 mm
Vikt594 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieSociety and Ecology in Island and Coastal Archaeology
Antal sidor320
FörlagUniversity Press of Florida
ISBN9780813079493

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Alberto García-Piquer is a postdoctoral scholar at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain. Mikael Fauvelle is associate professor of archaeology and ancient history at Lund University. Fauvelle is coeditor of An Archaeology of Abundance: Reevaluating the Marginality of California’s Islands. Colin Grier is professor of anthropology at Washington State University.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

List of Figures ixList of Tables xiiiForeword xvAcknowledgments xvii1. Why Boats Matter: Breaking Down Terrestrial Bias in Archaeology 1Mikael Fauvelle, Alberto García-Piquer, and Colin Grier2. Navigating Paradigms: Seafaring, Settlement Patterns, and Social Interaction in Southernmost South America 17Alberto García-Piquer3. Seascapes of the Unreal: Using Agent-Based Modeling to Examine Traditional Coast Salish Maritime Mobility 43Adam N. Rorabaugh4. Were Sperm Whales Hunted by Megalithic Communities in Brittany, France, During the Fifth Millennium cal BCE? 58Bettina Schulz Paulsson5. Seascapes and Society on the Forgotten Peninsula: The Watercraft and Conceptual Geography of Baja California, Mexico 77Matthew R. Des Lauriers and Claudia García-Des Lauriers6. Kanči: Indigenous Seafaring, Watercraft Diversity, and Cultural Contact in Southern Patagonia 94Nelson Aguilera Águila, Alberto García-Piquer, and Raquel Piqué7. Collective Action, Transport Costs, Watercraft Technologies, and the Engineered Ancestral Landscapes of Southern Florida 115Victor D. Thompson8. The Transformative Power of Boats: Seafaring, Maritime Interaction, and Social Complexity 134Mikael Fauvelle and Peter Jordan9. Going by Boat-Being: An Indigenous Ontological Approach to Watercraft in the Pacific Northwest Coast 149Erin M. Smith10. Precontact Inuit Watercraft and the Hunter–Prey Actantial Hinge 172Peter Whitridge11. Caballito de Totora Assemblages in Ancient and Modern Huanchaco, Peru 199Jordi A. Rivera Prince12. Toward, Not To: Seafaring Worldviews from Viking Age and High Medieval Norway 219Greer Jarrett13. Negotiating Watery Worlds: Crafting a Research Agenda 243Colin Grier, Mikael Fauvelle, and Alberto García-PiquerList of Contributors 261Index 263