Sources and Techniques in Boat Archaeology: Papers based on those presented to a Symposium at Greenwich in September 1976, together with edited discussion

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Front Cover Copyright Table of Contents LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 1. INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS 2. SETTING THE SCENE 3. A GLOSSARY OF BOAT ARCHAEOLOGY TERMS 4. DEGRADATION OF WOOD 5. CONSERVATION OF OLD WATER-LOGGED WOOD 6. ASPECTS OF WATERLOGGED WOOD CONSERVATION 7. NEW POSSIBILITIES IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERING FOR CONSERVING STRUCTURES OF WATERLOGGED WOOD 8. ETHNOGRAPHY AND LIVING TRADITION 9. THE XAVEGA BOAT A CASE STUDY IN THE INTEGRATION OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND ETHNOLOGICAL DATA 10. SEARCHING FOR PATTERN AMONG THE LOGBOATS OF ENGLAND AND WALES 11. QUANTITATIVE METHODS AND BOAT ARCHAEOLOGY 12. SOME PRINCIPLES FOR THE RECORDING AND PRESENTATION OF ANCIENT BOAT STRUCTURES 13. THE RECORDING AND PRESENTATION OF FINDS FROM NAUTICAL CONTEXTS 14. RECORDING THE REMAINS OF A SEWN BOAT FOUND AT SKEPPARGATAN 4 IN STOCKHOLM 15. HYPOTHETICAL RECONSTRUCTIONS IN BOAT ARCHAEOLOGY 16. HYPOTHETICAL RECONSTRUCTIONS AND THE NAVAL ARCHITECT 17. EXPERIMENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY THEORY AND PRINCIPLES 18. ASPECTS OF EXPERIMENTAL BOAT ARCHAEOLOGY 19. PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE BRENDAN PROJECT 20. ANCIENT BOATBUILDING -- A PROVISIONAL CLASSIFICATION 21. CELTIC SHIPS OF EUROPE 22. BOAT-ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE THAMES 23. SUMMARY AND CONCLUDING REMARKS GLOSSARY