Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Honor Frost: Selected Works

Honor Frost (edited by Lucy Blue and Sara A. Rich)

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.

Paperback ISBN: 9789464271416 | Hardback ISBN: 9789464271423 | Imprint: Sidestone Press Academics | Format: 210x280mm | 264 pp. | Honor Frost Foundation Research Publication 2 | Series: Honor Frost Foundation Research Publication | Language: English | 164 illus. (bw) | 34 illus. (fc) | Keywords: maritime archaeology; marine exploration; history of science; women in STEM; shipwrecks | download cover | DOI: 10.59641/r0u6o7p8q9 | CC-license: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Chapter 1. Introduction from the Honor Frost Foundation’s Maritime Archaeology Director
Lucy Blue

Chapter 2. From Rope to Chain: On the Development of Anchors in the Mediterranean

Chapter 3. The Stone Anchors of Byblos

Chapter 4. Bronze-Age Stone-Anchors from the Eastern Mediterranean: Dating and Identification

Chapter 5. Anchors, the Potsherds of Marine Archaeology: On the Recording of Pierced Stones from the Mediterranean

Chapter 6. The Birth of the Stocked Anchor and the Maximum Size of Early Ships: Thoughts Prompted by Discoveries at Kition-Bamboula, Cyprus.

Chapter 7. Anchors Sacred and Profane. Ugarit-Ras Shamra, 1986: The Stone Anchors Revised and Compared

Chapter 8. The Arwad Plans 1964: A Photogrammetric Survey of Marine Installations

Chapter 9. On the Plotting of Vast and Partly Submerged Harbour Works, from Aerial and Underwater Photographs

Chapter 10. The Case for a Bronze Age Dating for the Submerged Harbour Works at Arwad

Chapter 11. Ancient Harbours and Anchorages in the Eastern Mediterranean

Chapter 12. The Offshore Island Harbour at Sidon and Other Phoenician Sites in the Light of New Dating Evidence

Chapter 13. Harbours and Proto-harbours: Early Levantine Engineering

Chapter 14. Byblos and the Sea

Chapter 15. Archaeology, History, and the History of Archaeology Connected with Tyre’s Harbours.

Chapter 16. First season of excavation on the Punic wreck in Sicily

Chapter 17. The Punic Wreck in Sicily: 1. Second Season of Excavation

Chapter 18. Another Punic Wreck in Sicily: Its Ram. 2. The Ram from Marsala

Chapter 19. The Punic Ship Museum, Marsala: Its Presentation and Some Structural Observations

Chapter 20. Plants on Ships: Dunnage, Decoration and Perishable Cargoes

Appendix. Honor Frost’s Published Works

 

 

 
 

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