Table of Contents

1: General Survey of Early Types of Water Transport; 1: Earliest times; 2: Raft and reed; 3: Bark; 4: Skin; 5: Dug-outs and the evolution of the plank-built boat; 2: Europe; 6: The earlier Mediterranean; 7: The later Mediterranean; 8: The Atlantic; 9: Scandinavia; 10: The British Isles: skin boats; 11: The British Isles: wooden craft; 12: European river craft; 3: Outside Europe; 13: The Indian Ocean and Arabian Gulf; 14: China and Japan; 15: The Pacific; 16: The Americas

About the Author

Paul Johnstone

Reviews

`A fascinating and inspiring overview, which no student of archaeology should fail to read' - Bulletin of the Institute of Archaeology