The First Mariners - Couverture souple

Bednarik, Robert G.

 
9783659630972: The First Mariners
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3659630977 ISBN 13 : 9783659630972
Editeur : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

This volume summarizes the history and findings of the First Mariners Project, which the author commenced in 1996 and which is engaged in exploring the Ice Age origins of seafaring. This has so far involved the construction of eight primitive vessels with stone tools under scientifically controlled conditions, and the sailing of six of them. Four bamboo rafts have succeeded in accomplishing the historically documented crossings they sought to replicate, other efforts have failed. One of the successful experiments, a 1000-km journey to Australia in 1998, attempted to recreate the first human arrival in Australia, probably around 60,000 years ago. Others addressed the much earlier sea crossings documented to have taken place in the islands of Indonesia, the earliest of which occurred up to a million years ago. This book describes the archaeological background and relevant issues comprehensively and it comprises an extensive pictorial record, of both the experiments and the archaeological basis of this research.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This volume summarizes the history and findings of the First Mariners Project, which the author commenced in 1996 and which is engaged in exploring the Ice Age origins of seafaring. This has so far involved the construction of eight primitive vessels with stone tools under scientifically controlled conditions, and the sailing of six of them. Four bamboo rafts have succeeded in accomplishing the historically documented crossings they sought to replicate, other efforts have failed. One of the successful experiments, a 1000-km journey to Australia in 1998, attempted to recreate the first human arrival in Australia, probably around 60,000 years ago. Others addressed the much earlier sea crossings documented to have taken place in the islands of Indonesia, the earliest of which occurred up to a million years ago. This book describes the archaeological background and relevant issues comprehensively and it comprises an extensive pictorial record, of both the experiments and the archaeological basis of this research.

Biographie de l'auteur

Robert G. Bednarik, born in Vienna but an Australian since 1970, has produced over 1300 academic publications, including many books; edits three scientific journals and two series of monographs; and sees Aboriginal elders as his only teachers. His principal interest is the origin of the human ability to create constructs of reality.

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Éditeur
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3659630977
ISBN 13 
9783659630972
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
304
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ISBN 10 :  9351710076 ISBN 13 :  9789351710073
Editeur : Research India Press, 2017
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