{"product_id":"reconstructing-a-maritime-past-9780367635336","title":"Reconstructing a Maritime Past","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eReconstructing a Maritime Past \u003c\/em\u003eargues 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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 \u003ci\u003eculture \u003c\/i\u003eâ 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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49371697742167,"sku":"9780367635336","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780367635336.jpg?v=1730154231","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reconstructing-a-maritime-past-9780367635336","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}