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Reconstructing a Maritime Past argues that rather than applying geo-ethnic labels to shipwrecks to describe âœGreekâ or âœRomanâ seafaring, a more intriguing alternative emphasizes a maritime cultureâs valorization of the Mediterranean Sea. Doing so creates new questions and research agendas to understand the past human relationship with the sea.

This study makes this argument in three sections. Chapters 1 and 2, contrasting intellectual histories of maritime archaeological interpretive approaches common in Northern Europe and the Mediterranean, propose that the former perspective â which embodies contemporary and fluid perceptions of culture â is a better theoretical framework for future research. Chapters 3â5 re-interpret the corpus of submerged sites in the Mediterranean Sea with this approach, arguing that this dataset does not represent âœPhoenician,â âœMuslim,â or âœByzantineâ seafaring, but the practices of a maritime culture. Key to this section is the

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      Publisher Taylor & Francis
      Published 8/26/2024
      ISBN-13 9780367635336
      978-0367635336
      ISBN-10 036763533X
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      Book Synopsis

      Reconstructing a Maritime Past argues that rather than applying geo-ethnic labels to shipwrecks to describe âœGreekâ or âœRomanâ seafaring, a more intriguing alternative emphasizes a maritime cultureâs valorization of the Mediterranean Sea. Doing so creates new questions and research agendas to understand the past human relationship with the sea.

      This study makes this argument in three sections. Chapters 1 and 2, contrasting intellectual histories of maritime archaeological interpretive approaches common in Northern Europe and the Mediterranean, propose that the former perspective â which embodies contemporary and fluid perceptions of culture â is a better theoretical framework for future research. Chapters 3â5 re-interpret the corpus of submerged sites in the Mediterranean Sea with this approach, arguing that this dataset does not represent âœPhoenician,â âœMuslim,â or âœByzantineâ seafaring, but the practices of a maritime culture. Key to this section is the

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