Cape Gelidonya: A Bronze Age Shipwreck
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UNDERWATER ARCHEOLOGY: FIRST EDITION ILLUSTRATED REPORT OF THE FIRST ARCHEOLOGICAL EXPEDITION TO ENTIRELY EXCAVATE AN ANCIENT SHIPWRECK. 12 inches tall volume, printed paper covers, 177 pp, 162 fi...
UNDERWATER ARCHEOLOGY: FIRST EDITION ILLUSTRATED REPORT OF THE FIRST ARCHEOLOGICAL EXPEDITION TO ENTIRELY EXCAVATE AN ANCIENT SHIPWRECK. 12 inches tall volume, printed paper covers, 177 pp, 162 figures in text. Age-toning to cover edges, spine darkened, unmarked, unread, very good. GEORGE FLETCHER BASS (born 1932) is recognized as one of the early practitioners of underwater archaeology, He was the director of the first archaeological expedition to entirely excavate an ancient shipwreck: Cape Gelidonya (1960). Since directing his first excavation, he has excavated shipwrecks of the Bronze Age, Classical Age, and the Byzantine. Bass is professor emeritus at Texas A&M University, where he held the George T. and Gladys H. Abell Chair in Nautical Archaeology. He holds an M.A. in Near Eastern Archaeology from The Johns Hopkins University and a Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology from the University of Pennsylvania.
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Publisher: The American Philosophical Society
Year: 1967
Type: Used
Binding: Softcover
First Edition
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