THE MOST IMPORTANT RESULTS OF THE INVESTIGATION OF NAVIGATION AND MARINE CONNECTIONS OF THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN IN FOREIGN HISTORIOGRAPHY AND ARCHEOLOGY

Author(s):  N.P. Pisarevskiy, Dr., Voronezh state University, Voronezh, Russia, Pisarevskiy1@rambler.ru

Issue:  Volume 45, №1

Rubric:  Topical issues of world history

Annotation:  The article analyzes the results of seafaring studies of the ancient epoch and the contribution of modern Western European scientists at the conceptual level to the development of this problem. To the rising of scientific development of the problem on a new stage in the 2000s contributed both the introduction of new facts into science, and the rethinking of old ones. Actually, this circumstance predetermined, on the one hand, the expansion of views on the folding of the marine networks of the Crete-Mycenaean period, and on the other - the results achieved by foreign scholars in the study of history and trends in the devel-opment of economic and trade ties in the Aegean and the Ancient Near East of the Bronze Age in gen-eral. The understanding of this essence of the sea business and navigation in the societies of Ancient Greece and Rome was the result of the comprehension and elaboration of the problem in the science of the second half of the 20th century, the significant contribution to which was made by the reflected in publications both special and generalizing works, researches of experts in the field of archeology and historiography of Antiquity. In achieving this level, science has overcome many difficulties of source study, methodological and specifically scientific order.

Keywords:  seafaring, ships, trade, seamenship, maritime networks, redistribution, historiography.

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