Autor/-in: Robert Holtzman

Bob Holtzman holds a PhD in Archaeology and a Master of Arts in Maritime Archaeology from the University of Southampton and a Master of Marine Affairs degree from the University of Rhode Island. He studies the design, construction, and use of vernacular watercraft outside the Western plank-on-frame boatbuilding tradition, with a particular focus on logboats (i. e. , dugout canoes). In addition to fieldwork in Guyana for the present work, he has done ethnographic studies of logboats in Belize and Ecuador and researched archaeological logboats in Britain. Author of the blog Indigenous Boats (indigenousboats. com) for more than 15 years, Dr. Holtzman has worked as an Acquisitions Editor for International Marine/McGraw Hill and as Communications Director for the Penobscot Marine Museum in Maine. The author of three books on wilderness survival and camping skills, he also wrote a series of educational books about boats for children. He is currently co-editing a book on the hri logboats of the Middle East-Indian Ocean region.