ARTH 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Cape Gelidonya, Uluburun Shipwreck, Rhyton
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Can be a single moment in time or a single event. Overlapping shipwrecks: mix and becomes difficult to sort out, but you can begin to study the things that people are putting on a boat in a single moment in time. Whos on these ships, how they are built. Heyday of great power of this civilization. Underwater excavation was a pioneernig project by the father" of systematic underwater archeology, george bass, who was a grad student at the time. How deep is the ship/how deep can you go. How do you get artifacts back to ship. Created baskets to bring objects to the surfact. Rigged airlift, hose and airlift with compresser. How to bring terrestrial techniques and adapt them to the sea. 20 mins per dive, drawing with pen and paper. Makers mark: circle with cross on them. Ingots were the bulk form in which metals and glass were shipped in the late bronze age.
