Honor Frost

Dr Lucy Blue is a leading maritime archaeologist in her field, a lecturer at the University of Southampton, Centre for Maritime Archaeology, and the Maritime Archaeological Director of the Honor Frost Foundation.Dr Blue has research interests in harbours and maritime cultural landscapes mostly focused around the eastern Mediterranean, the Arabian Gulf and the Red Sea. Her research relating to contemporary boat construction, their operation and use has resulted in her conducting ethnographic enquiries in India, East Africa, Oman and Yemen.More recently Dr Blue has engaged in the challenges of building capacity with respect to maritime cultural heritage, predominantly in the MENA region (Middle East and North Africa), where she has been involved with the establishment of the University of Alexandria’s Centre for Maritime Archaeology and Underwater Cultural Heritage, she has co-directed a project to map and survey the maritime archaeology of Oman, and more recently in collaboration with the University of Ulster, direct the MarEAMENA Project (Endangered Archaeology in the MENA regional coastal and maritime zone).She has presented documentaries relating to underwater cultural heritage for the BBC, and is a Vice President of the Nautical Archaeology Society and a fellow of the Antiquaries and the Royal Geographical Society. Dr Blue’s has published over fifty volumes. Sara A. Rich is Associate Professor of Theory and History of Art and Design at the Rhode Island School of Design. She is a citizen of the Waccamaw Indian People and a maritime archaeologist, art historian, artist, and author of speculative fiction. Her recent scholarship includes essays in Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Heritage, and Contemporary Philosophy for Maritime Archaeology (which she also co-edited). Her most recent books include Mushroom (in the Bloomsbury series Object Lessons) and Shipwreck Hauntography: Underwater Ruins and the Uncanny (in the Amsterdam University Press series Maritime Humanities, 1400–1800).

• Chapter 1. Introduction from the Honor Frost Foundation’s Maritime Archaeology DirectorLucy BlueChapter 2. From Rope to Chain: On the Development of Anchors in the MediterraneanChapter 3. The Stone Anchors of ByblosChapter 4. Bronze-Age Stone-Anchors from the Eastern Mediterranean: Dating and IdentificationChapter 5. Anchors, the Potsherds of Marine Archaeology: On the Recording of Pierced Stones from the MediterraneanChapter 6. The Birth of the Stocked Anchor and the Maximum Size of Early Ships: Thoughts Prompted by Discoveries at Kition-Bamboula, Cyprus.Chapter 7. Anchors Sacred and Profane. Ugarit-Ras Shamra, 1986: The Stone Anchors Revised and ComparedChapter 8. The Arwad Plans 1964: A Photogrammetric Survey of Marine InstallationsChapter 9. On the Plotting of Vast and Partly Submerged Harbour Works, from Aerial and Underwater PhotographsChapter 10. The Case for a Bronze Age Dating for the Submerged Harbour Works at ArwadChapter 11. Ancient Harbours and Anchorages in the Eastern MediterraneanChapter 12. The Offshore Island Harbour at Sidon and Other Phoenician Sites in the Light of New Dating EvidenceChapter 13. Harbours and Proto-harbours: Early Levantine EngineeringChapter 14. Byblos and the SeaChapter 15. Archaeology, History, and the History of Archaeology Connected with Tyre’s Harbours.Chapter 16. First season of excavation on the Punic wreck in SicilyChapter 17. The Punic Wreck in Sicily: 1. Second Season of ExcavationChapter 18. Another Punic Wreck in Sicily: Its Ram. 2. The Ram from MarsalaChapter 19. The Punic Ship Museum, Marsala: Its Presentation and Some Structural ObservationsChapter 20. Plants on Ships: Dunnage, Decoration and Perishable CargoesAppendix. Honor Frost’s Published Works