Transfer Between Sea and Land: Maritime Vessels for Cultural Exchanges in the Early Modern Period

ISBN-13: 9789088906206 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 150 str.

Simone Kahlow

Opis

This publication combines studies from humanities and natural sciences; historians, archaeologists, and pharmacists have investigated the way of transfer by means of material and immaterial goods, such as ship lists, medicine, metal ware, exotic animals and Asian objects as well as ship constructions.

O autorze

Dr. Simone Kahlow studied archaeology at Freie Universität and Humboldt-Universität in Berlin. At an early stage she specialized in medical archaeology and burial archaeology in both the Middle Ages and Post-Medieval Period, and has been dealing with these topics for nearly 20 years. Her PhD-Thesis, supported by the German Research Foundation and defended in April 2014, aimed at gaining a better understanding of the development of care institutions based on building constructions, small finds, as well as human and animal bones.