Table of Contents

PART ONE: LIFE ON THE MARY ROSE: THE CONTENTS OF THE SHIP
1. The ‘Good Shippe’ Mary Rose: an Introduction
2. Silk Hats to Woolly Socks: clothing remains
3. Personal Possessions: purses to paternosters
4. Septicaemia, Scurvy and the Spanish Pox: provisions for sickness and injury at sea
5. ‘Dance and Skylark’: musical instruments
6. A Host of Shining Angels: money on board
7. Navigation and Ship’s Communication
8. Routine Maintenance and ‘Housework’
9. Plain and Functional: furniture on the Mary Rose
10. ‘Everything on Top and Nothing Handy’: stowage on board
11. Feeding the Crew: cooking, serving and eating

PART 2: SCIENTIFIC STUDIES: CREW, CONDITIONS AND ENVIRONMENT,
12. Acquiring the Data: introduction to the palaeo-environmental and scientific analyses
13. The Crew of the Mary Rose
14. Provisions for Board and Lodging: the animal and plant remains
15. Conditions on Board: pests, parasites and pollen
16. Science and the Mary Rose

PART 3: LOOKING TO THE FUTURE
17. Concluding Comments and Avenues for Future Research
Appendix 1: Chest contents
Appendix 2: Catalogue of textile remains
Appendix 3: Plant remains
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Michael J. Allen is proprietor of AEA Allen Environmental Archaeology and is one of the UK’s leading environmental archaeologists, specialising in geoarchaeology (particularly the analysis of hillwash and colluvium), land snail analysis, prehistoric landscape reconstruction and the management of environmental archaeological projects.

Reviews

This volume (the entire series of five even more so) is a celebration of the science of archaeology and its critical place in our understanding of the past.
*The Northern Mariner/le marin du nord*