Honor Frost (Paperback)

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.

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 Alexandria’s 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 Blue’s has published over fifty volumes and articles including: McGrail, S., Blue, L., Kentley, E. & Palmer, C. 2003 Boats of South Asia. RoutledgeCurzon. Peacock, D. & Blue, L. (eds) 2006, Survey and Excavation at Myos Hormos – Quseir al Qadim 1999-2003. Volume 1: The Survey and Report on the Excavations. Oxbow. Blue, L. 2007 ‘Locating the harbour: Myos Hormos/ Quseir al-Qadim: A Roman and Islamic port on the Red Sea coast of Egypt’. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 36.2: 265-281 Peacock, D.P. & Blue, L. (eds) 2007 The Eritro-British expedition to Adulis, Eritrea. Oxbow. Blue, L. Pham, C. & Palmer, C. , 2010, ‘Traditional Boats of Vietnam, an Overview’ International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 39.2: 258-277. Blue, L. (ed.) 2010, ‘Lake Mareotis: Reconstructing the Past’ Proceedings of the International Conference on the Archaeology of the Mareotic Region. University of Alexandria April 2008. Southampton Monograph Series No. 2. Oxford: Archaeopress. Blue, L., Pham, C. & Palmer, C 2010, ‘Traditional Boats of Vietnam, International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 39.2: 258-277. L. Blue & E. Khalil (eds.). 2011. ‘A multidisciplinary approach to Alexandria’s economic past: The Mareotis Case Study’, Southampton Monograph Series No. 5. Oxford: Archaeopress. D. Peacock & L. Blue (eds). 2011, ‘Myos Hormos – Quseir al-Qadim Roman and Islamic port on the Red Sea coast. Volume 2: The finds from the 1999-2003 excavations’, Southampton Monograph Series No. 6. Archaeopress. Oxford ‘Developing an integrated policy for the maritime and coastal heritage of the UAE: a collaborative approach’. Blue, L., Strutt, K., Sheehan, P., Jackson, P. & Beech, M. 2013, Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 43: 63–76 Van der Noort, R., Blue, L. et al. 2014, ‘Morgawr: a Bronze Age-type sewn-plank craft based on the Ferriby boats’ International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 43.2: 1-13 Blue, L. et al, 2014, ‘Maritime footprints: examining the maritime cultural landscape of Masirah Island, Oman, past and present’ Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 44: 53-68 Blue, L., Whitewright, J. & Cooper, J. 2017 The ubiquitous hūrī : maritime ethnography, archaeology and history in the western Indian Ocean. ISBSA 13 Beech, M.J., Strutt, K., Blue, L., Al Kaabi, A.F., Omar, W.A., El Faki, A.A., Reddy Lingareddy, A. & Martin, J. In press Ubaid-related sites of the southern Gulf revisited: the Abu Dhabi Coastal Heritage Initiative. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 46: 9-24

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, 1400–1800).