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CURRICULUM VITAE
PERSONAL DATA
Name: Cemal M. Pulak Address: Texas A&M University Nautical Archaeology Program Department of Anthropology College Station, Texas 77843-4352 Telephone: (979) 845-6697 (office) (979) 260-4050 (home) E-mail: [email protected]
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Texas A&M University (College Station, Texas) 1987-1996, Anthropology with a specialization in Nautical Archaeology M.A. Texas A&M University (College Station, Texas) 1979-1987, Anthropology with a specialization in Nautical Archaeology M.S. Bosporus University (Istanbul, Turkey) 1974-1977, Mechanical Engineering B.S. Robert College-Bosporus University (Istanbul, Turkey) 1970-1974, Mechanical Engineering
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2002-present Associate Professor, Nautical Archaeology Program, Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University 1997-2002 Assistant Professor, Nautical Archaeology Program, Department of Anthropology Texas A&M University 1994-present Vice-President and Director of Research in Turkey, Institute of Nautical Archaeology 1987-1994 Assistant Research Scientist, Institute of Nautical Archaeology 1981-1987 Research Associate, Institute of Nautical Archaeology 1980-1983 Graduate Assistant Researcher, Nautical Archaeology Program, Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University 1978-1979 Second Lieutenant, Engineer in Taşkızak Naval Shipyard, Istanbul, Turkey 1975-1977 Engineer, Tansallar Co., Istanbul, Turkey 1975-1977 Graduate Assistant Teaching, Mechanical Engineering Department, Bosporus University, Istanbul, Turkey
FIELD EXPERIENCE
2005-present Director, Excavation of Yenikapı Byzantine Shipwrecks, Istanbul 1999-present Director, Sultan’s Galley (Kadırga) Project, Istanbul Naval Museum 1994-present Director, Research and Conservation of the Uluburun Late Bronze Age Shipwreck: Museum Study 1983-1997 Director, Underwater Archaeological Surveys of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology in
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Turkey 1986-1994 Director, Uluburun (Kaş) Excavation of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (Late Bronze Age Shipwreck in Turkey) 1984-1986 Assistant Director, Uluburun (Kaş) Excavation of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (Late Bronze Age Shipwreck in Turkey) 1983 Director, Yassıada Excavation of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (16th-century shipwreck in Turkey) 1982 Assistant Director, Yassıada Excavation of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (16th-century A.D. shipwreck in Turkey 1982 Assistant, Underwater Archaeological Surveys of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology in Turkey 1981 Assistant, Port Royal Underwater Excavations of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (17th- century submerged city in Jamaica) 1980 Assistant, Underwater Archaeological Surveys of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology in Turkey 1979-1980 Director, Serçe Limanı Excavation of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (3rd-century B.C. shipwreck in Turkey) 1977-1979 Assistant, Serçe Limanı Excavation of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (11th-century A.D. shipwreck in Turkey) 1975 Participant, Şeytan Deresi Excavation of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (Bronze Age shipwreck in Turkey)
PUBLICATIONS
2014 Pulak, C., R. Ingram, and M. Jones. Eight Shipwrecks from the Theodosian Harbor Excavations at Yenikapı in Istanbul, Turkey: an Introduction. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology. 44.1. (January 2015).
Pulak, C., R. Ingram, and M. Jones. "The Shipwrecks at Yenikapı: Recent Research in Byzantine Shipbuilding," in Tradition and Transition: Maritime Studies in the Wake of the Byzantine Shipwreck at Yassiada, Turkey, edited by D.N. Carlson, S.M. Kampbell, and J. Leidwanger. College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press. (Forthcoming)
Pulak, C., R. Ingram, and M. Jones. Yenikapı Shipwrecks. In Hayalden Gerceğe. Bir İstanbul Öyküsü: Marmaray. Ş. Baltaş and Ş. Altun (eds.). Gama Nurol Publication. Ankara, pp. 84-100.
Pulak, C. Uluburun. Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie, Vol. 14: 1-6. (Forthcoming)
Pulak, C., R. Ingram, and M. Jones. Galleys and Merchantmen: Shipwrecks of Portus Theodosiacus, Yenikapı-Istanbul. TINA Maritime Archaeology Periodical 1(May): 8-25. (Also in Turkish)
Pulak, C. Review of Transferts technologiques en architectura navale Méditerranéenne de l’antiquité aux temps modernes: Identité technique et identité culturelle, P. Pomey, ed. Istitut français d’études anatoliennes Georges Dumézil - Istanbul, De Boccard. 2010. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 43.1: 215- 217.
Pulak, C. George Fletcher Bass, a Biography. In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. C. Smith (ed.). Springer Science and Business Media, New York, pp. 779-781.
2013 Pulak, C., R. Ingram, M. Jones, and S. Matthews. The Shipwrecks of Yenikapı and their Contribution to the
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Study of Ship Construction. In Stories from the Hidden Harbor: Shipwrecks of Yenikapı. Z. Kızıltan and G.Baran Çelik (eds.). Istanbul Archaeological Museums Press, Istanbul, pp. 22-34.
2011 Pulak, C. Three Copper Oxhide Ingots in Şanlıurfa Archaeology Museum, Turkey. In Metallurgy. Understanding How, Learning Why: Studies in Honor of James D. Muhly. P. P. Betancourt and S. C. Ferrence (eds.). Institute for Aegean Prehistory Academic Press, pp. 293-304.
Pulak, C., and N. Liphschitz. The Athlit Ram Timbers Re-examined: Tree Species Identification and Possible Construction Site of the Galley. Tropis X: Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Ship and Construction in Antiquity (August 2009, Hydra, Greece). H.E. Tzalas (ed.). Athens (forthcoming).
2010 Pulak, C. Yenikapi Byzantine Shipwrecks. In Istanbul: 8000 Years Brought to Daylight, Marmaray, Metro, Sultanahmet Excavations (Istanbul 2007). Vehbi Koç Foundation, pp. 202-215.
N. Liphschitz, and C. Pulak. Shipwrecks of Portus Theodosiacus. Types of Wood Used in Some Byzantine Roundships and Longships found at Yenikapı, Istanbul. Skyllis 9.2: 164-171.
Pulak, C. Uluburun Shipwreck. In: The Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean (Ca. 3000-1000 BC). E. H. Cline (ed.). Oxford University Press, pp. 862-876.
Pulak, C., R. D. Vann, and C.E. Fife. Woman in Underwater Archaeology. In Woman and Pressure: Diving and Altitude. M. St. Leger Dowse and C. E, Fife (eds.). Best Publishing Co., pp. 285-299 (chapter 19).
2009 Pulak, C. The Uluburun Tin Ingots and the Shipment of Tin by Sea in the Late Bronze Age Mediterranean. Turkish Academy of Sciences Journal of Archaeology (Tüba-Ar) 12: 189-207.
S. W. Manning, Pulak, C., B. Kromer, S. Talamo, C. Bronk Ramsey, and M. Dee. Absolute Age of the Uluburun Shipwreck: A Key Late Bronze Age Time-Capsule for the East Mediterranean. In Tree-rings, Kings, and Old World Archaeology and Environment: Papers Presented in Honor of Peter Ian Kuniholm. S. W. Manning and M. J. Bruce (eds.). Oxbow Books, pp. 163-187.
2008 Pulak, C. The Uluburun Shipwreck and Late Bronze Age Trade. In Beyond Babylon: Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Second Millennium B.C. J. Aruz, K. Benzel, and J.M. Evans (eds.). The Metropolitan Museum of Art Exhibition Catalog, pp. 288-305, artifact catalog: 306-310, 313-321, 324-333, 336-342, 345- 348, 350-358, 366-378, 382-385.
N. Liphschitz, and C Pulak. Wood Species Used in Ancient Shipbuilding in Turkey: Evidence from Dendroarchaeological Studies. Skyllis 8.1-2: 73-82.
2007 Pulak, C. The Contribution of Yenikapi Shipwrecks to the History of Technology (Yenikapı Buluntularının Teknoloji Tarihine Katkısı). TMMOB Mimarlar Odası Istanbul Büyükkent Şubesi (Turkish Chamber of Architects, Istanbul Branch). 55 pages [in Turkish].
Pulak, C. The Balance Weights from the Uluburun and Cape Gelidonya Shipwrecks. (Abstract). In Weights in Context: Bronze Age Weighing Systems of Eastern Mediterranean Chronology, Typology, Material and Archaeological Contexts. Proceedings of the International Colloquium, Rome 22nd - 24th November 2004. M. E. Alberti, E. Ascalone, and L. Peyronel (eds.). Studi e materiali 13. Instituto Italiano di Numismatica, Roma 2006, pp. 47-48.
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B. Lledó, and C. Pulak. The Frigate Ertuğrul: The 2007 Underwater Survey off Oshima Island, Japan. INA Annual 2007: 35-41.
Pulak, C. Yenikapı Wrecks. Atlas: Geography and Exploration Magazine. June, 172: 100-115. [In Turkish].
Pulak, C. Yenikapı Shipwrecks: Gifts of a Storm. ArkeoAtlas Magazine. June, 6: 128-141. Iin Turkish].
Pulak, C. Byzantine Wrecks of Yenikapı. Gün Işığnda Istanbul’un 8000 Yılı (Catalog of the Marmaray, Metro, and Sultanahmet Excavations in Istanbul, Turkey). Istanbul, pp. 202-215 [in Turkish].
2006 Pulak, C. World’s Oldest Historic Ship: The Kadırga. 3rd Naval Warfare Seminar. Gölcük- Kocaeli (Turkey), 5-9 April 2006. Ankara, Turkish Naval Press, pp. 5-27. [In Turkish].
Pulak, C., and W. van Duivenvoorde. Das Institute for Nautical Archaeology in der Türkei (The Institute of Nautical Archaeology [I.N.A.] in Turkey). Skyllis 1/2: 129-140.
Ü. Yalçın, C. Pulak, and R. Slotta. Uluburun Gemisi: 3000 Yıl Önce Dünya Ticareti. (The Uluburun Ship: Interregional Trade 3000 Years Ago; Turkish Version of the Uluburun Shipwreck Exhibition Catalog in Bochum, Germany, 696 pages). Deutschen Bergbau-Museum Bochum Nr. 139, Istanbul.
2005 Pulak, C. Evidence for Long-distance Trade from the Late Bronze Age Shipwreck at Uluburun. Prozesse de Wandels in historischen Spannungsfeldern Nordostafrika/Westasiens. Akten zum 2. Symposium des SFB 295, Mainz, 15.10. - 17.10.2001: Kulturelle und sprachliche Kontakte. Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 15- 17 October 2001, pp.167-189.
Ü. Yalçın, C. Pulak, and R. Slotta. Das Schiff von Uluburun: Welthandel vor 3000 Jahren. (Catalog of the Uluburun Shipwreck Exhibition in Bochum, Germany, 696 pages). Deutschen Bergbau-Museum Bochum Nr. 138, Bochum.
Pulak, C. Das Schiff von Uluburun und seine Ladung. In Ü. Yalçın, C. Pulak, and R. Slotta, Das Schiff von Uluburun: Welthandel vor 3000 Jahren. Deutschen Bergbau-Museum Bochum Nr. 138, Bochum, pp. 55-102.
M.W. Newton, S. Talamoi, Pulak, C., B. Kromer, and P. Kuniholm. Die datierung des Schiffswracks von Uluburun. In Das Schiff von Uluburun: Welthandel vor 3000 Jahren, Ü. Yalçın, C. Pulak, and R. Slotta. Deutschen Bergbau-Museum Bochum Nr. 138, Bochum, pp. 115-116.
Pulak, C. Who Were the Mycenaeans aboard the Uluburun Ship? EMPORIA. Aegeans in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean. Proceedings of the 10th International Aegean Conference, Athens, Italian School of Archaeology, 14-18 April 2004, Aegaeum 25, R. Laffineur and E. Greco (eds.). Université de Liège, pp. 295- 312.
Pulak, C. Discovering a Royal Ship from the Age of King Tut: Uluburun, Turkey. In Beneath the Seven Seas: Adventures with the Institute of Nautical Archaeology, G. F. Bass (ed.). Thames and Hudson, pp. 34-47.
Pulak, C. A Rare Ottoman Wreck, Yassıada, Turkey. In Beneath the Seven Seas: Adventures with the Institute of Nautical Archaeology, G.F. Bass (ed.). Thames and Hudson, pp. 138-141.
Pulak, C. Digging into an Avalanche: The Hellenistic Wreck at Serçe Limanı, Turkey. In Beneath the Seven Seas: Adventures with the Institute of Nautical Archaeology, G.F. Bass (ed.). Thames and Hudson, pp. 82-85.
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2004 Pulak, C. The Padlocks. In The Eleventh-Century Shipwreck at Serçe Limanı, George F. Bass, Sheila D. Matthews, J. Richard Steffy, and Frederick H. van Doorninck, Jr. (eds.). Texas A&M University Press, pp. 437-452.
Pulak, C. Museen in der westlichen Türkei: Bodrum (A Mycenaean Sealstone from the Uluburun Shipwreck). Corpus der minoischen und mykenischen Siegel, I. Pini (ed.). Mainz am Rhein, pp. 651-652.
Pulak, C. The Uluburun Shipwreck. ArkeoAtlas 3: 78-89 [in Turkish].
2003 Pulak, C. Paired Mortise-and-Tenon Joints of Bronze Age seagoing Hulls. In Boats, Ships, and Shipyards. IXth International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology: Boats, Ships and Shipyards, C. Beltrame (ed.). Oxford, pp. 28-34.
Pulak, C. The Uluburun Hull Remains. Tropis VII. Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Ship Construction in Antiquity (27 August - 31 August, 2000, Pylos), H. E. Tzalas (ed.). Athens, pp. 615-636.
2001 Pulak, C. The Cargo of the Uluburun Ship and Evidence for Trade with the Aegean and Beyond. In Italy and Cyprus in Antiquity, 1500-450 BC, L. Bonfante and V. Karageorghis (eds.). Nicosia, Cyprus, pp. 13-60.
Pulak, C. Cedar for Ships. Archaeology and History in Lebanon 14: 24-36.
Pulak, C. 3,300-Year-Old Testimony (Üç Bin Üç Yüz Yılın Tanığı). National Geographic Society Magazine (Turkish Edition) November: 114-121.
2000 Pulak, C. The Balance Weights from the Late Bronze Age Shipwreck at Uluburun. In Metals Make the World Go Round: Supply and Circulation of Metals in Bronze Age Europe, C. Pare (ed.). Oxbow Monograph Series, pp. 247-266.
Pulak, C. The Copper and Tin Ingots from the Late Bronze Age Shipwreck at Uluburun. International Symposium ‘Anatolian Metal I’, Ü. Yalçın (ed.). Der Anschnitt, Bochum, Beiheft 13, pp. 137-157.
Pulak, C. Hull Construction of the Late Bronze Age Shipwreck at Uluburun. INA Quarterly 26.4: 16-21.
Pulak, C. The Uluburun Shipwreck: An Overview. Sanat Dünyamız 80: 184-200 [in Turkish].
1999 Pulak, C. The Late Bronze Age Shipwreck at Uluburun: Aspects of Hull Construction. The Point Iria Wreck: Interconnections in the Mediterranean ca. 1200 BC. Proceedings of the International Conference, Island of Spetses, 19 September 1998, W. Phelps, Y. Lolos, and Y. Vichos (eds.). Hellenic Institute of Marine Archaeology, Athens, pp. 209-238.
Pulak, C. Shipwreck: Recovering 3,000-Year-Old Cargo. Archaeology Odyssey 2.4: 18-29.
Pulak, C. Aspects of Interregional Maritime Trade as Evidenced by Late Bronze Age Shipwrecks from Southern Turkey. International Conference on Underwater Archaeology (IKUWA): Changes in European Culture Caused by Maritime and Inland Waterborne Trade (as abstract).
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1998 Z.A. Stos-Gale, N.H. Gale, G. Bass, C. Pulak, E. Galili, and J. Sharvit. The Copper and Tin Ingots of the Late Bronze Age Mediterranean: New Scientific Evidence. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the Beginning of the Use of Metals and Alloys (BUMA - IV), (The Japan Institute of Metals. Aoba, Japan): 115-126.
Pulak, C. The Uluburun Shipwreck: An Overview. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 27: 188- 224.
Pulak, C. 1996 Turkish Coastal Survey. XV. Araştırma Sonuçları Toplanısıt, vol. 1. Ankara, 307-322 [in Turkish].
1997 Pulak, C., and G. Bass. Uluburun. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East, vol. 5, E. Meyers (ed.). New York and Oxford, pp. 266-268.
Pulak, C. The Uluburun Shipwreck. Res Maritimae: Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean from Prehistory to Late Antiquity, Nicosia, Cyprus 18-21 October 1994S. Swiny, R. L. Hohlfelder, and H. W. Swiny (eds.). ASOR Archaeological Reports 4, Atlanta, pp. 233-262.
Pulak, C. The Uluburun Shipwreck. Archaeology and Public Education. Society for American Archaeology, Public Education Committee 7.2: 4-13.
1996 Pulak, C. Dendrochronological Dating of the Uluburun Ship. INA Quarterly 23.1: 12-13.
Pulak, C. The Uluburun Shipwreck Excavation (Kaş), Final Campaign. XVII. Kazı Sonuçları Toplantısı I, Ankara): 215-228 [in Turkish].
Pulak, C., and G. Bass. Uluburun. In Shipwrecks in the Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology, G. F. Bass, Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology Publications 3. Ankara, pp. 60-78 (Also in Turkish).
Pulak, C. L’épave d’Uluburun. Le monde de la Bible 101: 44-45.
1995 Pulak, C. Das Schiffswrack von Uluburun. In Poseidons Reich: Archäologie unter Wasser. Zaberns Bildbände zur Archäologie. Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern 23: 43-58.
Pulak, C. The Shipwreck at Uluburun. Arkeoloji ve Sanat 71: 4-25 [in Turkish].
1994 Pulak, C. 1994 Excavation at Uluburun: The Final Campaign. The INA Quarterly 21.4: 8-16.
Pulak, C., and E. Rogers. The 1993-1994 Turkish Shipwreck Surveys. The INA Quarterly 21.4: 17-21.
Pulak, C. Excavations at Uluburun (Kaş): 1993 Campaign. XV. Kazı Sonuçları Toplantısı I 219-237 [in Turkish].
Pulak, C. The 1993 Underwater Survey. X. Araştırma Sonuçları Toplantısı: 1-11 [in Turkish].
1993 Pulak, C. The Shipwreck at Uluburun: 1993 Excavation Campaign. The INA Quarterly 20.4: 4-12.
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Pulak, C. Underwater Excavations at Ulu Burun (Kaş): 1991 Campaign. XIV. Kazı Sonuçları Toplantısı I: 347-364 [in Turkish].
1992 Pulak, C., G. Bass. The Shipwreck at Ulu Burun, Turkey: 1991 Excavation Season. In Underwater Archaeology Proceedings from the Society for the Historic Archaeology Conference, Kingston, Jamaica 1992, D. H. Keith and T. L. Carrell eds. Society for Historical Archaeology: 62-67.
Pulak, C. Underwater Excavations at Ulu Burun (Kaş): 1990 Campaign. XIII. Kazı Sonuçları Toplantısı I: 385-402 [in Turkish].
Pulak, C. 1990 Underwater Survey. IX. Araştırma Sonuçları Toplantısı: 593-599 [in Turkish].
Pulak, C. The Late Bronze Age Shipwreck at Ulu Burun, Turkey: 1992 Field Season. INA Quarterly 19.4: 4- 11, 21.
1991 Pulak, C. The Late Bronze Age Shipwreck at Ulu Burun, 1991 Field Season: “Ingot Summer.” INA Newsletter 18.4: 4-10.
Pulak, C. Underwater Excavations at Ulu Burun (Kaş): 1989 Campaign. XII. Kazı Sonuçları Toplantısı I: 293-310 [in Turkish].
1990 Pulak, C. Underwater Excavations at Ulu Burun (Kaş): 1988 Campaign. XI. Kazı Sonuçları Toplantısı I: 317- 333 [in Turkish].
Pulak, C. 1988 Underwater Survey. VII. Araştırma Sonuçları Toplantısı: 317-333 [in Turkish].
Pulak, C. The Late Bronze Age Shipwreck at Ulu Burun, Turkey: 1989 Excavation Campaign. In Underwater Archaeology Proceedings from the Society for Historical Archaeology Conference, Tucson, Arizona 1990, T. Carrell (ed.). Society for Historical Historical Archaeology: 52-57.
Pulak, C. Ulu Burun: 1990 Excavation Campaign. INA Newsletter 17.4: 8-13.
1989 Pulak, C. 1987 Underwater Survey. VI. Araştırma Sonuçları Toplantısı: 1-10 [in Turkish].
G. Bass, C. Pulak, D. Collon, and J. Weinstein. The Bronze Age Shipwreck at Ulu Burun: 1986 Campaign. American Journal of Archaeology 93: 1-29.
Pulak, C. The Ulu Burun Shipwreck. Museum 1: 67-76. [in Turkish with English summary].
Pulak, C. Ulu Burun: 1989 Excavation Campaign. INA Newsletter 16.4: 4-11.
1988 Pulak, C. The Bronze Age Shipwreck at Ulu Burun, Turkey: 1985 Campaign. American Journal of Archaeology 92: 1-37.
Pulak, C., and C. Haldane. The Late Bronze Age Shipwreck: The Fourth Excavation Campaign. INA Newsletter 15.1: 2-4.
Pulak, C. Turkish Underwater Survey. INA Newsletter 15.1: 10-11.
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Pulak, C. Excavations in Turkey: 1988 Campaign. INA Newsletter 15.4: 12-17.
Pulak, C. 1986 Underwater Survey. V. Araştırma Sonuçları Toplantısı: 277-285 [in Turkish].
1987 Pulak, C., and R. F. Townsend. The Hellenistic Shipwreck at Serçe Limanı, Turkey: Preliminary Report. American Journal of Archaeology 91: 31-57.
Pulak, C. The Late Bronze Age Shipwreck at Ulu Burun and Relations with Egypt. [Unpublished Presented in Alexandria on 27-29 June 1987 at the Symposium on Maritime Egypt].
1986 Pulak, C. 1985 Underwater Survey. IV. Araştırma Sonuçları Toplantısı: 79-88 [in Turkish].
Pulak, C. As One Ship is Unearthed, Another is Reassembled. INA Newsletter 12.4: 4-5.
1985 Pulak, C. 1984 Underwater Survey in the Provinces of Aydın, Muğla and Antalya. III. Araştırma Sonuçları Toplantısı: 35-45 [in Turkish].
1984 Pulak, C. Underwater Survey in the Sea of Marmara. III. Araştırma Sonuçları Toplantısı: 47-62 [in Turkish].
Pulak, C. The Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Wreck. INA Newsletter 11.4: 10-11, 15.
Pulak, C., and D. A. Frey. The Search for a Bronze Age Shipwreck. Archaeology 38.4: 18-24.
Pulak, C. Turkish Coastal Survey Yields Wrecksite Inventory. INA Newsletter 12.2: 2-3.
Pulak, C. Underwater Surveys, 1984. Anatolian Studies 35: 212-213.
Pulak, C. The Serçe Limanı Hull. Anatolian Studies 35: 213.
1984 Pulak, C. The Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Wreck. INA Newsletter 10.4: 4-5.
G. F. Bass, D. A. Frey, and Pulak, C. A Late Bronze Age Shipwreck at Kaş, Turkey. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 13: 271- 279.
Pulak, C. Yassıada Excavations-1983 Campaign. VI. Kazı Sonuçları Toplantısı: 469-491 [in Turkish].
1983 Pulak, C. 1982 Yassı Ada Excavations. V. Kazı Sonuçları Toplantısı: 285-289 [in Turkish].
AWARDS
2013 First George Ragias Memorial Lecture. The Acropolis Museum, Athens, Greece 1991-97 Mr. and Mrs. Ray H. Siegfried II Fellowship, Institute of Nautical Archaeology and Texas A&M University
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1996 Texas A&M University Association of Former Students for Distinguished Graduate Student Doctoral Research Award 1988 Golden Trident for Science, awarded by the International Academy of Underwater Sciences and Techniques, Ustica, Italy
COMMITTEES
2014-present Advisory Board for Turkish Institute of Nautical Archaeology (TINA) 2010-present Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) for the Science and Technology in Archaeological Research Center (STARC) - Cyprus Institute (STARC-SAC) 2005-present American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT) Representative 2001-present American School of Classical Studies in Athens Representative 2001-present Scientific Advisor for Underwater Archaeology, National Geographic Magazine (Turkish Edition) 1999-present Board of Scientific Advisors for the German Society for the Promotion of Underwater Archaeology (DEGUWA) Bulletin (Germany) 1997-present Advisory Committee for the Hellenic Institute for the Preservation of Nautical Tradition Symposia (Greece) 1995-present Archaeological Committee of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA) 1994-present Vice-President and Director of Research in Turkey, Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA)
INVITED LECTURES AND PAPER PRSENTATIONS
2014 JIAA (Japanese Institute of Anatolian Archaeology Late Bronze Age Glass Workshop: 27-28 September. Title of presentation: Late Bronze Age Uluburun Shipwreck and Its Glass Cargo.
Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology: 50th-year Celebration of the Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology (6 November 2014). Title of lecture: The Uluburun Shipwreck.
2013 Kolb Foundation; Eighth Annual Senior Scholars Colloquium: New Discoveries in Old World Archaeology. Widener Lecture Hall, Penn Museum, October 18. Title of lecture: Shipwreck Excavations at the Byzantine Port of Theodosius (Yenikapi, Istanbul).
George Ragias Inaugural Memorial Lecture, Acropolis Museum, Athens, Greece, 14 March. Title of lecture: Excavating the World's Oldest Seagoing Ship - The Late Bronze Age Shipwreck at Uluburun, Turkey.
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Event, Turkish Embassy, Washington DC, 16 January. Title of lecture: The Late Bronze Age Uluburun Shipwreck and the Excavations at Theodosian Harbor, Istanbul.
Archaeological Institute of America (A.I.A.) 114th Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, 3-6 January. Title of paper: Analysis of Ivory from the Uluburun Shipwreck and the Late Bronze Age Trade in the Eastern Mediterranean; R.H. Tykot, C. Leccese, K. Parker, G. Kamenov, K. Lafrenz, and C. Pulak.
2012 Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), College Station Chapter, Texas A&M University, 20 November. Title of presentation: The Shipwrecks of Constantinople’s Theodosian Harbor.
2nd International Congress on Chemistry for Cultural Heritage. Military Museum, Istanbul, Turkey, 9-12 July.
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Keynote lecture: Yenikapi Byzantine Shipwrecks and Their Contribution to the History of Ship Construction Technology.
Archaeological Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT), Istanbul, Turkey, 12 June. Plenary lecture at Annual Dinner. Title of presentation: Recent Excavations at Yenikapi, Istanbul-Turkey; Shipwrecks of Portus Theodosiacus, the Byzantuine Port of Constantinople (7th-11th Centuries A.D.).
Policies of Exchange. Models of Political Systems and Modes of Interaction in the Aegean and the Near East in the 2nd Millennium BC. International Symposium: Institute for Archaeological Studies, University of Freiburg, 30 May -2 June. Title of paper: The Uluburun Shipwreck—Evidence of Royal Exchange? Session Chair: The Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean.
Introduction to the Archaeometallurgy of Cyprus. A New Archaeological Research Network for Integrating Approaches (NARNIA) to Ancient Material Studies Project Training Course: University of Cyprus. Nicosia, Cyprus, 7-11 May. Title of paper: The Uluburun Ship. Copper and Tin Ingots, and the Trade of Copper.
2011 In Poseidons Reich XVI (In Poseidon’s Realm XVI): Early Seafaring of the Mediterranean Sea: From the Beginning until the Late Bronze Age 800 BC. Heidelberg, Germany, 18-20 February. Title of presentation: The Stone Anchors of the Uluburun Ship. Session Chair for Session 3: Harbors and Trade.
Archaeological Institute of America (A.I.A.) 112th Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas. Opening Night Plenary Lecture, San Antonio Museum of Art, 6 January. Title of lecture: Excavating Shipwrecks in Constantinople’s Theodosian Harbor.
Archaeological Institute of America (A.I.A.) 112th Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, 6-9 January. Title of presentation: Uluburun Revisited: The Cargo of Canaanite jars, Their Provenience, and Capacity Studies.
2010 Pittsburgh Theological Seminary Museum of Archaeology Lecture Series, 12 October. Title of presentation: The Uluburun Shipwreck and Late Bronze Age Maritime Trade in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Sorbonne University; Paris, France, Seminar Lecture, 10 April. Title of presentation: Les fouilles du port de Théodose à Constantinople (Excavations at the Port of Theodosius, Constantinople).
In Poseidons Reich XV (In Poseidon’s Realm XV): Byzantium at Sea. Innovation and Tradition (Deguwa), Vienna, Austria, 19-21 February. Title of presentation: The Construction of the Yassıada 7th-Century A.D. Shipwreck Reconsidered.
2009 Babesch-Byvanck Lecture, Dutch National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden, The Netherlands, 24 November. Title of presentation: The Uluburun Shipwreck and the Late Bronze Age Maritime Trade in the Eastern Mediterranean
Maritime Technology in the Ancient Economy: Ship-design and Navigation. International Conference: American Academy in Rome, 16-17 June. Title of presentation: The Byzantine Shipwrecks at Yenikapı and Their Contribution to Understanding Transitions in Shipbuilding Practices during the 7-10th Centuries A.D.
Colloquium: King’s College, Byzantine Studies, London, 13 June. Title of presentation: Recent Excavations at Yenikapı, Istanbul-Turkey: Shipwrecks of Portus Theodosiacus, the Byzantine Port of Constantinople
Symposium: Varangian Voyagers-Actors, Groups and Networks between the Baltic and the Black Sea, 21 February, Roskilde/Denmark. Title of presentation: Shipwrecks of Constantinople’s Theodosian Harbor-
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Portus Theodosiacus (7th-11th Centuries A.D.).
The Archaeological Institute of America (A.I.A.) 107th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, 8-12 January. Title of presentation: Shipwrecks of Constantinople’s Theodosian Harbor.
2008 The Metropolitan Museum of Art Symposium, New York, 19 December. Title of presentation: Technology of Casting Bronze Age Copper Ingots.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 17 December, Charles K. Wilkinson Lecture Series. Lecture title: The Tale of a Bronze Age Ship: Excavating the Uluburun Wreck.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 19 November. Public lecture: From the Bronze Age to the Byzantine Empire: Shipwrecks Excavated off the Turkish Coast.
Tropis, 10th International Symposium on Ship Construction in Antiquity; keynote address, 28 August, Hydra- Greece. Title of presentation: Shipwrecks of Portus Theodosiacus, the Byzantine Port of Constantinople: Recent Excavations at Yenikapı, Istanbul-Turkey.
Dumbarton Oaks, Byzantine Studies, 17 January, Washington D.C. Public lecture: Shipwrecks of Constantinople’s Theodosian Harbor.
2007 Greek and Byzantine Archaeology Seminars, Oxford University, 23 November. Title of presentation: A Late Bronze Age Merchant Venture: The Uluburun Ship. Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology, University of Oxford, 21 November. Title of presentation: The Twenty-seven Shipwrecks of Constantinople’s Theodosian Harbor.
Symposium: Transferts technologiques en architecture navale méditerranéenne de l’antiquité aux temps modernes: identité technique et identité culturelle. The French Academy in Istanbul, Turkey, 19-22 May. Title of presentation: The Four Byzantine Shipwrecka at Yenikapi.
Symposium: Traditions and Transitions, Maritime Studies in the Wake of the Byzantine Shipwreck at Yassıada, Turkey; A symposium honoring Drs. George F. Bass and Frederick van Doorninck, November 2- 3, Texas A&M University. Title of paper: Five Recently Excavated 11th-Century Byzantine Shipwrecks at Yenikapı, Istanbul. Turkish Chamber of Architects, Istanbul, Turkey, 30 April. Title of presentation: Ancient Ship Construction Technology and Yenikapı Shipwrecks.
Turkish Academy of Sciences (TUBA), Istanbul, Turkey, 19 February. Title of presentation: Byzantine Shipwrecks Discovered during Excavation of the Theodosian Harbor.
Institute of Nautical Archaeology Annual Board Meeting, Key-note Address, 19 October. Title of presentation: Excavating Byzantine Shipwrecks at Yenikapı, Istanbul.
2006 Conference in Honor of Peter Kuniholm, Cornell University, New York, 3-5 November. Title of presentation: Dating the World’s Oldest Historic Ship: The Kadirga
11th International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology (ISBSA), Mainz, Germany, 25-29 September. Title of presentation: The Late Byzantine Ships at the Theodosian Harbor of Constantinople; Istanbul, Turkey
Istanbul Archaeological Museums, Istanbul, Turkey, 17 May. Title of presentation: The Byzantine Shipwrecks at Constantinople’s Theodosian Harbor. Public lecture.
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Denize Saygı Platformu ((DESEV), Izmir, Turkey, 23 June. Title of presentation: Newly Discovered Byzantine Shipwrecks at Yenikapı, Istanbul.
3rd Seminar on the History of Ottoman Naval Warfare; Turkish Naval Command, Gölcük, Turkey, 19-21 April
2005 Department of History and Student Association, State University College, SUNY-New Paltz, New York. April 13. Title of presentation: The Uluburun Shipwreck and Bronze Age Trade
Vancouver Maritime Archaeology Society. Vancouver, Canada, 2nd April. Title of presentation: Excavating the World’s Oldest Shipwreck.
German Society for the Promotion of Underwater Archaeology’s (DEGUWA) 10th Annual Meeting: In Poseidons Reich X. Berlin, Germany. February 26-27. Title of Presentation: Institute of Nautical Archaeology’s (INA) Excavations and Presence in Turkey.
106th Annual Meeting of the AIA, Boston, Massachusetts: January 6-9 (Organizer). Colloquium: The Late Bronze Age Uluburun Shipwreck; with six invited speakers. Title of presentation: The Uluburun Shipwreck: An Overview.
2004 International Colloquium, “Recherches à Ougarit, royaume syrien du IIme millénaire.” Musée du Louvre, Paris, 27 November 27. Title of presentation: The Discoveries on the Uluburun Shipwreck.
International Conference, “Weights in Context: Bronze Age Weighing Systems of Eastern Mediterranean Chronology, Typology, Material and Archaeological Contexts,” Università degli Studi di Roma, Rome, 22-24 November. Title of paper: The Balance Weights from the Uluburun and Cape Gelidonya Shipwrecks. Session Chair: Bronze Age Near Eastern Weights and Weighing.
10th International Aegean Conference, “Emporia: Aegeans in Central and Eastern Mediterranean,” Athens, 14-18 April. Session chair and presentation of paper “Who were the Mycenaeans aboard the Uluburun Ship?”
2003 10th International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology, Roskilde Denmark. Session Chair: Theoretical Issues in the Construction of Ships, 22-26 September.
The McCann/Taggart Lecturer of the AIA, Ohio State University, University of Nebraska, University of Wisconsin, Valparaiso University-Indiana. Lecture: The Late Bronze Age Shipwreck (ca. 1300 B.C.) at Uluburun, Turkey, 8-14 April.
Temple University. Lecture, Philadelphia. Lecture: General talk on the Uluburun shipwreck, provenancing raw materials, and reconstruction of ship, 27 March.
The Annual Richard H. Howland Lecture, Georgetown University. Lecture: The Uluburun Shipwreck and Late Bronze Age Trade, 13 March.
Oriental Institute. “The Nature of the Uluburun Copper and Tin Ingots.” Lecture for the Interdisciplinary Archaeological Workshop, 6 March. Presented results of the latest research on the metallurgy, chemical analyses, and provenancing the copper and tin ingots from Uluburun.
Oriental Institute. “Splendors of the Oldest Known Shipwreck (ca. 1300 B.C.) At Uluburun, Turkey.” Co-
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Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, 5 March. Lecture to the public on the Uluburun shipwreck and recent reconstruction research of the ship’s hull and lading of the cargo.
International Symposium: “Le rotte nell’antico Mediterraneo.” Istituto Universitario Suor Orsola Benincasa. Title of paper: The Uluburun Shipwreck and Late Bronze Age Trade. Naples, Italy, 14-15 February.
2002 Colloquium: “Archaeology in Turkey.” New York University. Sponsored by the Turkish Government and Archaeology Magazine of the Archaeological Institute of America. Lecture: Uluburun: A Late Bronze Age Shipwreck, 2 November.
Archaeological Institute of America (AIA). “The Late Bronze Age Shipwreck (ca. 1300 B.C.) At Uluburun, Turkey.” University of Santa Barbara, University of California at Los Angeles-UCLA (Ahmanson Lecturer), Stanford University, 6-8 February.
Munroe Lecture of the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom. “The World’s Oldest Ship: Archaeological Treasures from the Bronze Age Shipwreck at Uluburun, Turkey,” 21 February.
2001 2. Symposium des SFB 295: “Kulturelle und sprachliche Kontakte: Prozesse des Wandels in historischen Spannungsfeldern Nordostafrikas/Westasiens.” Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 15-17 October.
Archaeological Institute of America (A.I.A.) Kershaw Lecturer for 2001. Lecture: “The Late Bronze Age Shipwreck at Uluburun, Turkey” at University of Florida, University of Georgia, University of Western Virginia, 27-29 March.
Dallas-Fort Worth AIA Society. Art Museum at SMU, 26 April. Title of presentation: “The Late Bronze Age Shipwreck at Uluburun.”
Special Joint Panel of the Archaeological Institute of America and American Schools of Oriental Research, January 2001.
Kevorkian Lecture on Near Eastern Archaeology, University of Pennsylvania. Lecture: “Excavating the World’s Oldest Shipwreck,” 8 March.
2000 IX. International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology, Venice, Italy, December 2000.
The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University: “Evidence from the Uluburun Shipwreck for Cypriot Trade with the Aegean and Beyond,” November, 2000.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Charles K. Wilkinson Lecture; “Ships, Trade and Interconnections, May, 2000.
1999 7th International Symposium on Ship Construction in Antiquity, Pylos, Greece, 1999 AIA. Chicago Chapter.
Helms-Museum, Hamburger Museum für Archäologie und die Geschichte Harburgs, Hamburg, Germany.
Archaeological Symposium: “The Uluburun Shipwreck.” University of St. Thomas, Houston.
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International Conference on Underwater Archaeology (IKUWA): “Changes in European Culture Caused by Maritime and Inland Waterborne Trade.” Sassnitz, Germany.
1998 International Symposium: “Anatolian Metal.” Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum, Germany.
International Conference: “The Point Iria Wreck. Interconnections in the Mediterranean ca. 1200 BC.” Spetses, Greece.
Friends of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology: “Ancient Metrology: the Art of Weighing during the Bronze Age,” Portland, September.
Portland Art Museum; “Truth from Treasure: Oldest Shipwreck Gives New View of History,” 8 September.
1997 Keynote address, International Colloquium: “Supply and Circulation of Metals in Bronze Age Europe. University of Birmingham, England.
1996 Louvre Museum. Paris.
6th International Symposium on Ship Construction in Antiquity, Nauplion, Greece.
1994 Res Maritimae: Cities on the Sea. Nicosia, Cyprus.
University of Toronto, Canada.
1993 5th International Symposium on Ship Construction in Antiquity, Athens, Greece, 1993.
Banquet guest speaker, Western Coal Transportation Association Conference Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars, Alpha Eta Chapter at Texas A&M University, banquet guest speaker.
Banquet guest speaker, The M. W. Kellogg Company, Sigma Xi chapter, Grayson Community College
University of St. Thomas
Scripps Institute of Oceanography
California Institute of Technology
Turkish-American Association of California and San Jose State University. Denver Museum of Natural History