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Underwater in the Mediterranean:
An Introduction to Maritime Archaeology
Prof. Christoph Bachhuber
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and your spirit of adventure too
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but what is Maritime Archaeology (in the Mediterranean)?
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Some of my involvement in the field (training)
Institute of Nautical Archaeology
and the Nautical Archaeology
Program at Texas A&M University
It started with this man: George Bass,
the founding father of underwater and
maritime archaeology
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Some of my involvement in the field (research and fieldwork)
Extensive research on the Late Bronze Age Uluburun shipwreck (sunk ca. 1320 BCE)
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Uluburun
shipwreck
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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].
(Moran 1992, Amarna Letters 24 III 61-3.)
Desirable objects and materials recovered from the Uluburun shipwreck
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What is Maritime Archaeology (in the Mediterranean)?
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Broadly it is archaeology that relates directly to historic and prehistoric interaction with
the (Mediterranean) Sea.
Two Minoan wall frescoes (paintings) from Late Bronze Age Thera (modern Santorini)
in the Aegean (ca. 1520 BCE). By this definition, both frescoes fall within the ambit of
maritime archaeology, but
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We need to narrow the definition (for this course).
Maritime archaeology is the study of
material culture related to the
technologies, enterprise, and communities
of seafaring and seafarers in the
ancient Mediterranean
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Maritime archaeology does not equate with underwater archaeology
Byzantine (ca. AD 1100) shipwreck excavations in themiddle of Istanbul (Yenikap), Turkey
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And not all underwater archaeology is maritime
Survey (and upcoming excavation) of the
Early Bronze Age (ca. 2800 BCE) settlement of
Pavlopetri off the southern coast of Greece
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Finally, distinguishing maritime archaeology
from nautical archaeology
Reconstructing the Roman harbor of Caesarea (on the Israeli coast) falls within theambit of maritime archaeology (not nautical archaeology)
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Ongoing excavations
in the harbor of Alexandria, Egypt
(sunk in an earthquake, ca. 40 BCE)
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Nautical archaeology is all about the ships (and boats), their cargo and their crew.
B l i d i h b d hi h d
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But we are also interested in harbors and ship sheds
A view of the harbor of Carthage (modern Tunisia), ca. 200 BCE
So this is a course on maritime archaeology to include the ships their crews thei r
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So this is a course on maritime archaeology, to include the ships, their crews, thei r,
cargoes, their personal effects, and the places that harbored them
harbored them
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