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Maritime Archaeology as Interdisciplinary Research: the Late Bronze Age Uluburun shipwreck as a case study
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1. generating the data (fieldwork and conservation)2. generating/contextualizing the data: relative and absolute dating, provenience (material analyses, typological studies)3. contextualizing the data from external sources (iconography,texts)4. interpreting the data (including through reconstructions)5. disseminating the data, reconstructions, interpretations
Less than 10% of the time and resources spent in a shipwreck project is spent on the fieldwork
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Generating the data through archaeological fieldwork andconservation
11 seasons of fieldwork:22,500 dives (1984-1994)
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Archaeological conservation:all materials from the Uluburun shipwreck
(not on display in museums) are being stored andconserved in Bodrum, Turkey
Material culture recovered from underwater contexts requires more urgent conservation than material
culture from any other kind of ‘terrestrial’ context
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Contextualizing the data by generating more data:materials analysis to determine absolute dates and provenience of materials
‘Hard’ dates
Radiocarbon (C14) dates from organic materialsrecovered from the Uluburun shipwreck(ca. 1300 BCE)
Dendrochronological dates recoveredfrom logs on theUluburun ship date to ca. 1300 BCE
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Contextualizing the data by generating more data:materials analysis to determine absolute dates and provenience of materials
Provenience studieson Uluburun material
Petrographic analysis on Canaanite Jars
Lead Isotope analysis oncopper ingots
X Uluburun
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XUluburunshipwreck
19 (chronologically precise)Aegean Stirrup Jars
149 Canaanite Jars
9 Cypriot pithoi
TrajectoryContextualizing the shipwreck through typological/chronological studies of pottery
Determining ‘relative dates’ and the likely trajectory of the ship
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Contextualizing and interpreting the shipwreck with external sources(source material that does not share comparanda with material from the shipwreck: i.e. contemporary texts or iconography)
Tribute bearing Syrians represented in the 18th Dynasty Egyptian tomb of Rekhmire
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Interpreting/reconstructing the shipwreck with external sources(source material that does not share comparanda with material from the shipwreck: i.e. contemporary texts or iconography)
Depiction of Syrian merchants and merchant ships from the Egyptian tomb of Kenamun (Amenhotep III—1391-1353 BCE)
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“And now my brother is going to see the things that I have dispatched to my brother. Thus I will dispatch to my brother [gifts].”
(Amarna Letter III 61-3, royal diplomatic correspondence contemporary with the Uluburun shipwreck)
Types of objects from the Uluburun shipwreck that are listed in Amarna gift inventories
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Academic archaeologists spend far more time in the place on the left
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Disseminating the data, interpretations, and reconstructions
Exhibit of the Uluburun shipwreckin the Met (New York)
Sailing trials as high profile media events
The Uluburun shipwreck as something to teach with in the world’s great academies
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17 years after the final archaeological dive on the Uluburunshipwreck work continues
Prof. Cemal Pulak, director of the Uluburun project