Mucho Más Que Barcos

"This book aims to become a theoretical framework that serves as a basis for a future research project on prehistoric watercraft technology. In order to achieve this, a development of the architectural project of naval construction in prehistory is carried out through the analysis of its four basic constraints: socioeconomic constraints, nautical constraints, material constraints, symbolic constraints and perhaps also a fifth in what refers to the technological and cultural heritage. It is concluded that these constraints cannot be analyzed separately and that they are an inherent part of the architectural project. Likewise, it is proposed that, because of this reality, boats and ships were a key element of sociocultural evolution and, therefore, played an important role in the development of social complexity throughout prehistory."--page xi.