The warped sea of sailing: Maritime topographies of space and time for the Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean
The warped sea of sailing: Maritime topographies of space and time for the Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean
Time has consistently been regarded as the missing dimension from our renderings of space, having a significant impact on how we interpret and represent past interaction. Nowhere is this more keenly felt than in discussion of maritime mobility. This paper outlines an innovative approach to mapping maritime spaces by taking into account the performance of Bronze Age sailing ships in different weather conditions and the subsequent time of sailing journeys. The use of cartograms is demonstrated to be invaluable for reconceptualisation of maritime space and rethinking maritime connectivity in the past. This marks a step-change in approach, which has implications for regions beyond the case study area (eastern Mediterranean).
The results presented in this paper foreground meaningful differences in maritime connectivity between Egypt and the Levant during the earlier Bronze Age than are easily realised through traditional static representations. This demonstrates the significance of developing alternative representations of space/time for archaeology.
Cartogram, GIS, Maritime networks, Mediterranean, Space-time
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El Safadi, Crystal
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Sturt, Fraser
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March 2019
El Safadi, Crystal
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Sturt, Fraser
442e14e1-136f-4159-bd8e-b002bf6b95f6
El Safadi, Crystal and Sturt, Fraser
(2019)
The warped sea of sailing: Maritime topographies of space and time for the Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean.
Journal of Archaeological Science, 103, .
(doi:10.1016/j.jas.2019.01.001).
Abstract
Time has consistently been regarded as the missing dimension from our renderings of space, having a significant impact on how we interpret and represent past interaction. Nowhere is this more keenly felt than in discussion of maritime mobility. This paper outlines an innovative approach to mapping maritime spaces by taking into account the performance of Bronze Age sailing ships in different weather conditions and the subsequent time of sailing journeys. The use of cartograms is demonstrated to be invaluable for reconceptualisation of maritime space and rethinking maritime connectivity in the past. This marks a step-change in approach, which has implications for regions beyond the case study area (eastern Mediterranean).
The results presented in this paper foreground meaningful differences in maritime connectivity between Egypt and the Levant during the earlier Bronze Age than are easily realised through traditional static representations. This demonstrates the significance of developing alternative representations of space/time for archaeology.
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Accepted/In Press date: 8 January 2019
e-pub ahead of print date: 31 January 2019
Published date: March 2019
Keywords:
Cartogram, GIS, Maritime networks, Mediterranean, Space-time
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/428246
ISSN: 0305-4403
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