Abstract:
Hailing from academic training in fine and performing arts, Honor Frost learned to dive in the 1950s and within a decade began earning a reputation as a pioneering maritime archaeologist. She held unparalleled expertise in the study of ancient anchors, harbours, and shipwrecks in the eastern Mediterranean, where she helped to develop new archaeological applications for technologies like aerial photography and photogrammetry, which today are standard field practices. Over a career spanning five decades, Honor Frost published over a hundred research papers on maritime archaeological topics that integrate religious studies, linguistics, ethnography, geology, and oceanography, to name a few.
This volume curates a careful selection of nineteen of Honor’s most groundbreaking research papers, collected here for a new generation of maritime archaeologists and other interdisciplinary scholars. In addition to reproducing foundational yet often difficult to find research, the volume also includes archival materials that have never before been published and colour images that were originally printed in grayscale. It also features the complete bibliography of Honor Frost’s publications, from 1948 to 2011. With an introduction from the Honor Frost Foundation’s Maritime Archaeological Director, Honor Frost: Selected Works celebrates the legacy of an extraordinary scientist while making her most important works freely accessible to the public for the first time.
Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction from the Honor Frost Foundation’s Maritime Archaeology Director
Lucy Blue
Chapter 2. From Rope to Chain: On the Development of Anchors in the Mediterranean
Chapter 3. The Stone Anchors of Byblos
Chapter 4. Bronze-Age Stone-Anchors from the Eastern Mediterranean: Dating and Identification
Chapter 5. Anchors, the Potsherds of Marine Archaeology: On the Recording of Pierced Stones from the Mediterranean
Chapter 6. The Birth of the Stocked Anchor and the Maximum Size of Early Ships: Thoughts Prompted by Discoveries at Kition-Bamboula, Cyprus.
Chapter 7. Anchors Sacred and Profane. Ugarit-Ras Shamra, 1986: The Stone Anchors Revised and Compared
Chapter 8. The Arwad Plans 1964: A Photogrammetric Survey of Marine Installations
Chapter 9. On the Plotting of Vast and Partly Submerged Harbour Works, from Aerial and Underwater Photographs
Chapter 10. The Case for a Bronze Age Dating for the Submerged Harbour Works at Arwad
Chapter 11. Ancient Harbours and Anchorages in the Eastern Mediterranean
Chapter 12. The Offshore Island Harbour at Sidon and Other Phoenician Sites in the Light of New Dating Evidence
Chapter 13. Harbours and Proto-harbours: Early Levantine Engineering
Chapter 14. Byblos and the Sea
Chapter 15. Archaeology, History, and the History of Archaeology Connected with Tyre’s Harbours.
Chapter 16. First season of excavation on the Punic wreck in Sicily
Chapter 17. The Punic Wreck in Sicily: 1. Second Season of Excavation
Chapter 18. Another Punic Wreck in Sicily: Its Ram. 2. The Ram from Marsala
Chapter 19. The Punic Ship Museum, Marsala: Its Presentation and Some Structural Observations
Chapter 20. Plants on Ships: Dunnage, Decoration and Perishable Cargoes
Appendix. Honor Frost’s Published Works
Dr
Sara A. Rich
Sara Rich is Assistant Professor of Honors at Coastal Carolina University. She is an archaeologist, art historian, artist, and author of speculative fiction. She has directed underwater archaeological campaigns on shipwrecks and submerged settlements in the Mediterranean, English Channel, and North Atlantic, and is now directing her attention to the West Atlantic.
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Dr
Lucy Blue
Dr Lucy Blue is a leading maritime archaeologist in her field, a lecturer at the University of Southampton, Centre for Maritime Archaeology, and the Maritime Archaeological Director of the Honor Frost Foundation.
Dr Blue has research interests in harbours and maritime cultural landscapes mostly focused around the eastern Mediterranean, the Arabian Gulf and the Red Sea. Her research relating to contemporary boat construction, their operation and use has resulted in her conducting ethnographic enquiries in India, East Africa, Oman and Yemen.
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