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CONTENTS

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii

Part I. PREHISTORY AND ANTIQUITY

1. Pleistocene Knotting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Why Knot?-Some Speculations on the Earliest Knots . . . . . . 19
3. On Knots and Swamps-Knots in European Prehistory . . . . . . 31
4. Ancient Egyptian Rope and Knots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Part II. NON-EUROPEAN TRADITIONS
5. The Peruvian Quipu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
6. The Art of Chinese Knotwork: a Short History . . . . . . . . . . 89
7. Inuit Knots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Part III. WORKING KNOTS

8. Knots at Sea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
9. A History of Life Support Knots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Part IV. TOWARDS A SCIENCE OF KNOTS?
10. Studies on the Behaviour of Knots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
11. A History of Topological Knot Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
12. On Theories of Knots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
13. Trambles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
14. Crochet Work-History and Computer Applications . . . . . . 317