Wood Resources, Shipbuilding and Social Environment: The Historical context of the ForSEAdiscovery Project
ForSEAdiscovery (Marie Curie Actions PITN-2013-GA-607545) is an interdisciplinary project encompassing History, Archaeology and Dendrochronology with a dual objective: to collect information on naval construction and the use of timber in shipbuilding; and to complement this research with the analysi...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2015 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) |
| Repositorio: | DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:digital.csic.es:10261/296025 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/296025 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Sumario: | ForSEAdiscovery (Marie Curie Actions PITN-2013-GA-607545) is an interdisciplinary project encompassing History, Archaeology and Dendrochronology with a dual objective: to collect information on naval construction and the use of timber in shipbuilding; and to complement this research with the analysis of the archaeological evidence collected from Iberian shipwrecks, timber and other artefacts. In this paper I will focus on the general objectives of the ForSEAdiscovery Project highlighting on some of the key historical aspects of the project whilst placing them within the context of this wider multi-disciplinary project. Historical studies have been looking into so-called “Environmental History” only for the last few decades. However, one of the most relevant aspects of the first global age has not attracted the attention of the environmental historians, the evolution of the maritime empires. The ForSEAdiscovery Project focuses on the relationship between deforestation and the evolution of shipbuilding techniques in the two first maritime empires, Portugal and Spain during the Early Modern Ages. |
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