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.
Collection of the most important published papers on anchors, harbours, and shipwrecks written by the late maritime archaeologist, Honor Frost.
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1. Introduction from the Honor Frost Foundations Maritime
Archaeology Director
Lucy Blue
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2. From Rope to Chain: On the Development of Anchors in the
Mediterranean
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3. The Stone Anchors of Byblos
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4. Bronze-Age Stone-Anchors from the Eastern Mediterranean: Dating
and Identification
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5. Anchors, the Potsherds of Marine Archaeology: On the Recording of
Pierced Stones from the Mediterranean
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6. The Birth of the Stocked Anchor and the Maximum Size of Early
Ships: Thoughts Prompted by Discoveries at Kition-Bamboula, Cyprus.
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7. Anchors Sacred and Profane. Ugarit-Ras Shamra, 1986: The Stone
Anchors Revised and Compared
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8. The Arwad Plans 1964: A Photogrammetric Survey of Marine
Installations
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9. On the Plotting of Vast and Partly Submerged Harbour Works, from
Aerial and Underwater Photographs
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10. The Case for a Bronze Age Dating for the Submerged Harbour Works
at Arwad
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11. Ancient Harbours and Anchorages in the Eastern Mediterranean
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12. The Offshore Island Harbour at Sidon and Other Phoenician Sites
in the Light of New Dating Evidence
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13. Harbours and Proto-harbours: Early Levantine Engineering
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14. Byblos and the Sea
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15. Archaeology, History, and the History of Archaeology Connected
with Tyres Harbours.
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16. First season of excavation on the Punic wreck in Sicily
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17. The Punic Wreck in Sicily:
1. Second Season of Excavation
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18. Another Punic Wreck in Sicily: Its Ram.
2. The Ram from Marsala
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19. The Punic Ship Museum, Marsala: Its Presentation and Some
Structural Observations
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20. Plants on Ships: Dunnage, Decoration and Perishable Cargoes
Appendix. Honor Frosts Published Works
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.
More recently Dr Blue has engaged in the challenges of building capacity with respect to maritime cultural heritage, predominantly in the MENA region (Middle East and North Africa), where she has been involved with the establishment of the University of Alexandrias Centre for Maritime Archaeology and Underwater Cultural Heritage, she has co-directed a project to map and survey the maritime archaeology of Oman, and more recently in collaboration with the University of Ulster, direct the MarEAMENA Project (Endangered Archaeology in the MENA regional coastal and maritime zone).
She has presented documentaries relating to underwater cultural heritage for the BBC, and is a Vice President of the Nautical Archaeology Society and a fellow of the Antiquaries and the Royal Geographical Society. Dr Blues has published over fifty volumes. Sara A. Rich is Associate Professor of Theory and History of Art and Design at the Rhode Island School of Design. She is a citizen of the Waccamaw Indian People and a maritime archaeologist, art historian, artist, and author of speculative fiction. Her recent scholarship includes essays in Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Heritage, and Contemporary Philosophy for Maritime Archaeology (which she also co-edited). Her most recent books include Mushroom (in the Bloomsbury series Object Lessons) and Shipwreck Hauntography: Underwater Ruins and the Uncanny (in the Amsterdam University Press series Maritime Humanities, 14001800).
