North Sea Archaeologies

Robert Van de Noort is Professor in Wetland Archaeology at the University of Exeter. He has led the multi-period Humber Wetlands Project and the excavations at the Iron Age 'marsh-fort' at Sutton Common, in Yorkshire.

• 1. Introduction: the sea is 'good to think' ; 2. An archaeological theory of the sea ; 3. The sea as a dynamic and hybrid landscape ; 4. Fish: exploring the sea as a taskscape ; 5. Socializing coastal landscapes ; 6. Archipelagos and islands ; 7. Moving across the North Sea ; 8. The daily practice of seafaring: the ship as heterotopia par excellence ; 9. The cultural biographies of boats ; 10. Conclusions: a maritime biography

Robert van de Noort makes such an ambitious effort ... he is well placed to combine elements rarely observed on an exceptionally broad canvas ... [He] gives a concise, readable and iconoclastic view expanding the boundaries of period-based, regionally focused and methodologically driven source literature.