BENEATH THE SEVEN SEAS

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Before there were farmers or shepherds, there were seafarers. Before people could make pottery or work metals, before they even lived in houses, they could cross expanses of open water. As far back as 40,000 years ago they reached and populated the continent of Australia by watercraft. A new land cannot be peopled by just two or three individuals washed ashore by accident; a deliberate population movement is necessary.
In the Mediterranean 11.000 years ago, cave dwellers made round trips from the Greek mainland to the island of Melos, where they collected obsidian, the volcanic glass that they fashioned into blades and scrapers. Mariners colonized the large Mediterranean islands of Crete and Cyprus some 8.000 years ago.
Without seafarers, then, there would have been no Minoan civilization. Without river craft the great Egyptian pyramids could not have been built of the massive stones quarried far up the Nile. Without great merchant vessels, neither Greece nor Rome, dependent on grain from the Black Sea and North Africa, could have prospered. And without rowed warships, the Greeks could not have turned the tide against invading Persians in the famed sea battle at Salamis in 480 BC. [...] (From the publisher)

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Contributors
Introduction: Reclaiming lost history from beneath the seven seas
GEORGE F. BASS
- THE OLDEST WRECKS
GEORGE F.BAS, CEMAL PULAK
- ANCIENT GREEK WRECKS
GEORGE F. BASS, ELIZABETH GREENE, DEBORAH CARLSON, SUSAN WOMER KATZEV, DONALD A. FREY, CEMAL PULAK
- ROMAN AND BYZANTINE WRECKS
GEORGE F. BASS, WILLIAM H. CHARLTON JR, FREDERICK VAN DOORNINCK, SHELLEY WACHSMANN, FRED HOCKER, GEORGE F. BASS, NERGIS GUNSENIN, ROBERT D. BALLARD AND CHERYL WARD
- MEDIEVAL AND RENNAISSANCE WRECKS
GEORGE F. BASS, FRED HOCKER, JEREMY GREEN, CEMAL PULAK
- SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY WRECKS
GEORGE F. BASS, ROBERT S. NEYLAND, FILIPE CASTRO, JEROME LYNN HALL, J. BARTO ARNOLD III AND DONNY L. HAMILTON, ROBIN PIERCY
- EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY WRECKS
GEORGE F. BASS, CHERYL WARD, FRED HOCKER, DACID C. SWITZER, JOHN D. BROADWATER, MARGARET LESJIKAR-DENTON
- WRECKS OF MODERN TIMES
GEORGE F. BASS, PAUL F. JOHNSTON, KEVIN CRISMAN, J. BARTO ARNOLD III, ARTHUR COHN, JEREMY GREEN, BRETT PHANEUF
Further reading
Acknowledgments and sponsors
Sources of illustrations
Index