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The Uluburun Shipwreck – a Dendrochronological Scandal
The Uluburun Shipwreck – a Dendrochronological Scandal During the Late Bronze Age a trading ship was wrecked off the promontory of Kaş, near Uluburun, in southwestern Turkey. Work on its excavation began in 1984 and the wreck has proved to be a gift to archaeologists. Its cargo included Mycenaean and Cypriot pottery, Canaanite storage jars filled with resin, copper and tin ingots, tools, fishing equipment, weapons, stone artefacts, gold and silver jewellery and a unique gold scarab bearing the name of the Egyptian queen Nefertiti. For more details, photographs and bibliography see online articles by the Institute of Nautical Archaeology on the “Bronze Age Shipwreck Excavation at Uluburun” and “Continuing Study of the Uluburun Shipwreck Artifacts”. As all their contents sank together, shipwrecks like this are veritable “time- capsules”. Excepting occasional problems involving antiques or possible antiques, rich multi-cultural cargoes like that of Uluburun provide invaluable evidence for refining the relative archaeological chronologies of neighbouring regions. Shipwrecks also hold the promise of offering absolute dates for their cargoes, if timbers from the ship can be reliably cross-dated with a well established dendrochronology. In 1996 Peter Kuniholm, Director of the Aegean Dendrochronology Project at Cornell University announced (in preliminary form) a result for Uluburun, in a article published in the prestigious journal Nature (Kuniholm et al. 1996, 782): Wood found as part of the cargo on Kaş/Uluburun shipwreck has a last preserved ring at 1316 BC; other finds include Mycenaean pottery from Greece (the most recent material present is early Late Helladic IIIB; J. B. Rutter, personal communication), and a unique gold scarab of Nefertiti, wife of Akhenaten, pharaoh of Egypt. -
The and Uluburun Shipwreck La T E B R 0 N Z E a G E T Ra
THE ULUBURUN SHIPWRECK AND LA T E B R 0 N Z E A G E T RA D E CEMAL PULAK pwreck dating to the Late Bronze Age was exca several dozen ingots, still arranged in four discernible rows. ted off Uluburun-or Grand Cape 1-approxi- Their shape was reminiscent of copper ingots recovered from mately 9 kilometers southeast of Ka~, in southern the Cape Gelidonya shipwreck two decades earlier and termed Turkey, between 1984 and 1994.2 It was discovered "oxhide" for their rectangular, four-handled appearance. It had by a sponge diver during the summer of 1982 and brought been assumed that each ingot represented the shape of an to the attention of archaeologists at the Institute of Nautical oxhide, possibly as a means of assigning value for trade, Archaeology (INA) conducting annual shipwreck surveys although this hypothesis has since been disproved. The form along the coast.3 The original allure of the site was its cargo of the oxhide ingots and other artifacts from the wreck allowed of copper ingots. Similar ingots had been discovered during us to propose a rough date of about 1300 B.C.5 With this the 1960 excavation of a seafaring merchant ship of around estimated date in mind, excavations began in the hope of the twelfth-century B.C. off Cape Gelidonya, just 65.5 kilome uncovering items that would illuminate aspects of Late Bronze ters east of Uluburun. Analyses of finds from the Cape Age trade. Gelidonya shipwreck had allowed George Bass to hypothesize Because of the depth of the site-42 to 61 meters6- the about the central role of Near Eastern seafarers in Late Bronze cargo had been spared from salvage or pillage. -
Direct Evidence of Primary Glass Production in Late Bronze Age Amarna, Egypt*
Archaeometry 53, 1 (2011) 58–80 doi: 10.1111/j.1475-4754.2010.00521.x DIRECT EVIDENCE OF PRIMARY GLASS PRODUCTION IN LATE BRONZE AGE AMARNA, EGYPT* M. SMIRNIOU Department of Conservation and Scientific Research, The British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG and TH. REHREN Institute of Archaeology, University College London, 31–34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY This paper presents direct archaeological evidence for the primary production of glass at the LBA site of Tell el-Amarna, in the form of numerous finds of semi-finished glass. The diagnostic microstructural and chemical composition of these finds is presented alongside macroscopi- cally similar finds, of shapeless lumps of finished white glass. The semi-finished glass was found to contain numerous inclusions of residual quartz and newly formed lime-rich crystal phases, but no added colorant. However, several samples of semi-finished glass have antimony oxide levels comparable to those of finished white glass, suggesting that the opacifier was added to the initial glass-making batch. The results are discussed in comparison with the evidence for glass-making from Qantir – Pi-Ramesse, identifying some close technical simi- larities, which indicate that the same technological processes were used at both sites for the production of glass. KEYWORDS: GLASS, GLASS-MAKING, EGYPT, LATE BRONZE AGE, AMARNA, ELECTRON MICROPROBE ANALYSIS INTRODUCTION Glass and glass workshops in the LBA Near East and Egypt There is abundant evidence that glass was being produced and worked during the Late Bronze Age (LBA), as attested by the numerous glass artefacts that have been found in Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean. -
Biblical World
MAPS of the PAUL’SBIBLICAL MISSIONARY JOURNEYS WORLD MILAN VENICE ZAGREB ROMANIA BOSNA & BELGRADE BUCHAREST HERZEGOVINA CROATIA SAARAJEVO PISA SERBIA ANCONA ITALY Adriatic SeaMONTENEGRO PRISTINA Black Sea PODGORICA BULGARIA PESCARA KOSOVA SOFIA ROME SINOP SKOPJE Sinope EDIRNE Amastris Three Taverns FOGGIA MACEDONIA PONTUS SAMSUN Forum of Appius TIRANA Philippi ISTANBUL Amisos Neapolis TEKIRDAG AMASYA NAPLES Amphipolis Byzantium Hattusa Tyrrhenian Sea Thessalonica Amaseia ORDU Puteoli TARANTO Nicomedia SORRENTO Pella Apollonia Marmara Sea ALBANIA Nicaea Tavium BRINDISI Beroea Kyzikos SAPRI CANAKKALE BITHYNIA ANKARA Troy BURSA Troas MYSIA Dorylaion Gordion Larissa Aegean Sea Hadrianuthera Assos Pessinous T U R K E Y Adramytteum Cotiaeum GALATIA GREECE Mytilene Pergamon Aizanoi CATANZARO Thyatira CAPPADOCIA IZMIR ASIA PHRYGIA Prymnessus Delphi Chios Smyrna Philadelphia Mazaka Sardis PALERMO Ionian Sea Athens Antioch Pisidia MESSINA Nysa Hierapolis Rhegium Corinth Ephesus Apamea KONYA COMMOGENE Laodicea TRAPANI Olympia Mycenae Samos Tralles Iconium Aphrodisias Arsameia Epidaurus Sounion Colossae CATANIA Miletus Lystra Patmos CARIA SICILY Derbe ADANA GAZIANTEP Siracuse Sparta Halicarnassus ANTALYA Perge Tarsus Cnidus Cos LYCIA Attalia Side CILICIA Soli Korakesion Korykos Antioch Patara Mira Seleucia Rhodes Seleucia Malta Anemurion Pieria CRETE MALTA Knosos CYPRUS Salamis TUNISIA Fair Haven Paphos Kition Amathous SYRIA Kourion BEIRUT LEBANON PAUL’S MISSIONARY JOURNEYS DAMASCUS Prepared by Mediterranean Sea Sidon FIRST JOURNEY : Nazareth SECOND -
Steering Committee for Culture, Heritage and Landscape (Cdcpp)
STEERING COMMITTEE FOR CULTURE, HERITAGE AND LANDSCAPE (CDCPP) CDCPP-Bu(2013)19 Strasbourg, 8 October 2013 4th meeting of the Bureau Strasbourg, 16-17 October 2013 CULTURAL POLICY IN TURKEY – NATIONAL REPORT DOCUMENT FOR INFORMATION Item 3.1 of the draft agenda Council of Europe European Programme of National Cultural Policy Reviews CULTURAL POLICY IN TURKEY NATIONAL REPORT Ankara October/2013 INDEX CULTURAL POLICY IN TURKEY – NATIONAL REPORT ..................................... i INDEX ......................................................................................................................................... i TABLE INDEX ......................................................................................................................... vi GRAPHICS INDEX ................................................................................................................. vii PREFACE .................................................................................................................................. 1 1. INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................. 3 2. LEGAL AND INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK OF CULTURAL POLICY ................... 7 2.1. Fundamental Goals and Priorities in Cultural Policy .................................................. 7 2.1.1 The Constitution and Top Policy Documents ....................................................... 7 2.1.2. Fundamental Aims and Targets .......................................................................... -
A ©Lonely Planet Publications Pty
©Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd 626 Index A Anamur 388-90 tours 367-8 Columns of the Abana 501 Anatolia 287-322, 409-50, travel to/from 374 Evangelists 227 accommodation 590-2, see 517-54 travel within 375-6 Didyma 252-7, 263, 262 also individual locations accommodation 287, walking tours 372, 372 Elaiussa-Sebaste 393 409, 517 booking 111 Anzac Cove 157, 162 Ephesus 12, 24, central 409-50, 226-32, 233-4, 263, boutique hotels 28 410 Anzac Day 160 climate 287, 409, 517 573, 224, 13 costs 21, 111 Arasta Bazaar 133, 133 eastern 517-54, Eskişehir 305 discounts 264 518-19 archaeological sites & ruins Euromos 255 language 617-18 food 287, 409, 517 27, 262-3 Gate of Hadrian 230 activities 26-7, 37-41, see highlights 288, 306-7, Acropolis (Gordion) 423 410, 518 Göreme Open-Air also individual activities Adamkayalar 395 travel seasons 287, Museum 454-5 Adamkayalar 395 Afrodisias 307, 313-15, 409, 517 Great Theatre (Miletus) Adana 400-3, 401 314, 306 western 287-322, 227, 263 Aegean coast 221-86 288 Afyon 305-8 Anazarbus 404 Gymnasium of Vedius 226 accommodation 175, 221 Agora (İzmir) 201-2 Anemurium Ancient City Harbour Baths 227 food 175, 221 Alacahöyük 432 388-9, 397, 397 Harbour Street 227 highlights 176, 204-5, 222 Alexandria Troas 182 Angora wool 422 Hattuşa 428-31 history 223 Amisos Antik Kenti 504 Ani 14, 529, 543-6, 544, 15, Herakleia 254 north 175-220, 176 Ancient Patara 346-7 528-9 Hercules Gate 231 south 221-86, 222 Andriake 362 Ankara 411-22, 412, 415, Hierapolis 310-11, 310 travel seasons 175, 221 Anemurium Ancient City 419, 420 -
Uluburun – the Discovery and Excavation of the World’S Oldest Known Shipwreck
http://akroterion.journals.ac.za ULUBURUN – THE DISCOVERY AND EXCAVATION OF THE WORLD’S OLDEST KNOWN SHIPWRECK N Fawcett & J C Zietsman (University of Stellenbosch) The oldest and most exciting shipwreck ever discovered is that of a 15 metre Syro- Palestinian trading vessel whose cargo was sighted on the sea-bed by a sponge diver off a promontory called Uluburun, near Kas, on the south Turkish coast. The ship dates from about 1300 BC. According to Wachsmann (1998:xi) “The Uluburun shipwreck is without doubt the single most significant key to understanding Bronze Age seafaring”, and Bass (1998:49) adds that “few if any Bronze Age excavations in the past 50 years have been more important than the Uluburun shipwreck.” 1. Background The mainstream of nautical development that was to flow throughout ancient history arose not in the river-oriented civilisations of Mesopotamia or Egypt but in the open waters of the Eastern Mediterranean around the beginning of the second millennium BC (Casson 1971:30). Men had ventured beyond the shelter of their shores long before this date, in log rafts, perhaps, or some form of reed bundle boat, followed by dugouts with planks added on both sides to give a bigger freeboard (Johnstone 1980:58). By the third millennium the Egyptians had learned to build craft with edge-joined planks sewn together with twine, as has been shown by the discovery of 12 wooden boats buried beside the funerary enclosures of the earliest kings of Egypt at Abydos, dating to c. 3000 – 2700 BC (Haldane 1992:12), and the famous Cheops ship of c. -
The Late Bronze Age Uluburun Shipwreck As a Case Study Less Than 10% of the Time and Resources Spent in a Shipwreck Project Is Spent on the Fieldwork
Maritime Archaeology as Interdisciplinary Research: the Late Bronze Age Uluburun shipwreck as a case study Less than 10% of the time and resources spent in a shipwreck project is spent on the fieldwork 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 Generating the data through archaeological fieldwork and conservation 11 seasons of fieldwork: 22,500 dives (1984-1994) Archaeological conservation: all materials from the Uluburun shipwreck (not on display in museums) are being stored and conserved in Bodrum, Turkey Material culture recovered from underwater contexts requires more urgent conservation than material culture from any other kind of ‘terrestrial’ context Contextualizing the data by generating more data: materials analysis to determine absolute dates and provenience of materials ‘Hard’ dates Dendrochronological dates recovered from logs on the Uluburun ship date to ca. 1300 BCE Radiocarbon (C14) dates from organic materials recovered from the Uluburun shipwreck (ca. 1300 BCE) Contextualizing the data by generating more data: materials analysis to determine absolute dates and provenience of materials Provenience studies on Uluburun material Petrographic analysis on Canaanite Jars X Uluburun Lead Isotope analysis on copper ingots Contextualizing the shipwreck through typological/chronological studies of pottery Trajectory Determining ‘relative dates’ and the likely trajectory of the ship 19 (chronologically precise) Uluburun X 149 Canaanite Jars Aegean Stirrup Jars shipwreck 9 Cypriot pithoi Contextualizing and interpreting the shipwreck with external sources (source material that does not share comparanda with material from the shipwreck: i.e. -
Medcruise 2011/12 Yearbook
10/11/10 13:09:48 A Directory of Cruise Ports & Professionals & Professionals Ports A Directory of Cruise & Adjoining Seas in the Mediterranean Yearbook MedCruise 2011/12 MedCruise cover indd 1 MedCruise 2011/12 Yearbook MedCruise YB 11-12 Cover 11/11/2010 15:13 Page 1 IFC-01 Table of Contentsnew-fi 15/11/10 10:14 Page 1 MedCruise is the Association of Mediterranean Cruise Ports. MedCruise’s mission is to promote the cruise industry in the Mediterranean and its adjoining seas. The Association assists its members in benefiting from the growth of the cruise industry by providing networking, promotional and professional development opportunities. Today, the Association has grown to 64 regular members representing more than 90 ports around the Mediterranean region, including the Black Sea, the Red Sea and the Near Atlantic, plus 28 associate members, representing other associations, tourist boards and ship/port agents. IFC-01 Table of Contentsnew-fi 15/11/10 10:14 Page 2 Table of Contents Member ports map 2-3 Celebrating 15 years 7 Welcome messages 4-6 Statistics 8 MEDCRUISE PORT MEMBERS Alanya 9 Igoumenitsa 30 Ravenna 51 Alicante 10 Istanbul 31 Rijeka 52 Almeria 11 Koper 32 Rize 53 Azores 12 Kos 33 Sète 54 Balearic Islands 13 La Spezia 34 Sevastopol 55 Barcelona 14 Lattakia 35 Sibenik 56 Bari 15 Lisbon 36 Sinop 57 Batumi 16 Livorno 37 Sochi 58 Burgas 17 Madeira ports 38 Split 59 Cagliari 18 Malaga 39 Tarragona 60 Cartagena 19 Marseille 40 Toulon-Var-Provence 61 Castellon 20 Messina 41 Trieste 62 Ceuta 21 Monaco 42 Tunisian ports 63 Civitavecchia -
Title:Vitreous Beads from the Uluburun Shipwreck Pages: 225-246
Title:Vitreous beads from the Uluburun shipwreck Author(s): Rebecca S. Ingram Journal: Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean 23/2, Special Studies: Beyond ornamentation. Jewelry as an Aspect of Material Culture in the Ancient Near East, edited by A. Golani , Z. Wygnańska Year: 2014 Pages: 225-246 ISSN 1234–5415 (Print), ISSN 2083–537X (Online) Publisher: Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw (PCMA UW), Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego (WUW) www.pcma.uw.edu.pl – www.wuw.pl Vitreous beads from the Uluburun shipwreck ANATOLIA VITREOUS BEADS from THE ULUBURUN shIPwrECK Rebecca S. Ingram Nautical Archaeology Program, Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University Abstract: The Late Bronze Age shipwreck at Uluburun (late 14th century BC) was discovered off the southwest coast of Turkey in 1982. Thousands of beads of vitreous material were found at the site, including approximately 75,000 faience beads and 9,500 glass beads. This paper offers an intro- duction to the faience and wound glass beads found at Uluburun, with an emphasis on manufac- ture and their role aboard the ship. Bead forms and styles represented at Uluburun were relatively simple and quite common at archaeological sites throughout the Late Bronze Age Levant. There is evidence that several of the simpler types of the faience and glass beads were carried on the ship as items of trade. More complex forms, in contrast, probably represent the personal belongings of the crew or passengers aboard the ship. Keywords: Uluburun, glass, faience, beads, Late Bronze Age In 1982, a Late Bronze Age shipwreck The Uluburun shipwreck also yielded was discovered off the southwestern tens of thousands of beads. -
The Uluburun Shipwreck Project: Intercon- Nections Through Trade In
AIA Education Department Cargoes from Three Continents Lesson Plans The Uluburun Shipwreck Project: Intercon- nections through Trade in the Late Bronze Age MediterraneanWorld Ellen Dailey Bedell The Ellis School Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Pulak, Cemal. “The Site at Uluburun.” Archaeology and Public Education 7.2” (1997). Washington, D.C.: Society for American Archaeology. Subject: History: Origins of World Civilizations Quirke, Stephen, and Jeffery Spencer, eds. The British Muse- um Book of Ancient Egypt. New York: Thames and Hud- Level: Grade 9 son, 1992. (Includes wall paintings form the tomb-chapel of Sobekhotep and the tomb of Menkheperraseneb.) Length of Unit: Three weeks Smith, Shelley J., Jeanne M. Moe, Kelly A. Letts, and Danielle M. Paterson. Intrigue of the Past. Utah: Bureau of Land Readings for the Teacher: Specific readings are included Management, 1993. with each lesson. Stager, Lawrence E. Ashkelon discovered: From Canaanites and Philistines to Romans and Moslems. Reprinted from Art of Ancient Cyprus. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1972. Biblical Archaeology Review. Washington, D.C.: Biblical Baines, John and Jaromir Malek. Cultural Atlas of Ancient Archaeology Society, 1991. Egypt. New York: Facts on File, 2000. (Includes reproduc- Tatton-Brown, Veronica. Ancient Cyprus. Cambridge: Har- tions of tomb paintings and depictions of the weighing of vard University Press, 1988. gold with zoomorphic weights.) Vermeule, Emily T. Toumba Tou Skourou: The Mound of Bass, George F. “Oldest Known Shipwreck”(see General Darkness. Boston: Harvard University-Museum of Fine Bibliography). Arts Cyprus Expedition, 1974. Bass, George F., Cemal Pulak, Dominique Collon, and James Slides: For a complete list of Uluburun slides and ordering Weinstein. -
Tracing the Source of the Elephant and Hippopotamus Ivory from the 14Th Century B.C
University of South Florida Scholar Commons Graduate Theses and Dissertations Graduate School 4-6-2004 Tracing the Source of the Elephant and Hippopotamus Ivory from the 14th Century B.C. Uluburun Shipwreck: The Archaeological, Historical, and Isotopic Evidence Kathryn Anne Lafrenz University of South Florida Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd Part of the American Studies Commons Scholar Commons Citation Lafrenz, Kathryn Anne, "Tracing the Source of the Elephant and Hippopotamus Ivory from the 14th Century B.C. Uluburun Shipwreck: The Archaeological, Historical, and Isotopic Evidence" (2004). Graduate Theses and Dissertations. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/1122 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Graduate Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Tracing the Source of the Elephant and Hippopotamus Ivory from the 14th Century B.C. Uluburun Shipwreck: The Archaeological, Historical, and Isotopic Evidence by Kathryn A. Lafrenz A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts Department of Anthropology College of Arts and Sciences University of South Florida Major Professor: Robert H. Tykot, Ph.D. Brent R. Weisman, Ph.D. Nancy Marie White, Ph.D. Date of Approval: April 6, 2004 Keywords: strontium, late bronze age, isotopes, trade, provenance © Copyright 2004 , Kathryn A. Lafrenz Acknowledgements I would like to thank, first and foremost, Robert Tykot for all his help and guidance during the process of researching and writing this thesis.