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Gelidonya Shipwreck

PKC6202
TITLEGelidonya Shipwreck
WGS84 36.195938° N, 30.406639° E
Accuracy 50 m.

LAT/LON 36.195938, 30.406639
LON/LAT 30.406639, 36.195938

DMS 36° 11' 45.3768" N,30° 24' 23.9004" E

W3Wrobustly, cramming, oversights
UTM36 S, 266822, 4008799
EGSA87 1076202, 4024467

Elevation m0
Elevation feet 0
RegionAnatolia
SubregionLycia





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Shipwreck

TYPE

1.    Shipwreck.   Bass et al. [1967], 17    The actual discovery is described in Bass et al. [1967] 17.


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Bass et al. [1967]: 165, ? ' ... several independent methods of dating have led to a date for the shipwreck of 1200 B.C. +/- 50 years, with more evidence pointing to an earlier rather than a later dating in that range.'

NOTES

1.  For a photograph of the discovery site see Bass and Throckmorton [1961] 21, Fig. 5.

2.  Subsequent dives and discoveries at the Cape Gelidonya wreck are described in Bass [2013].

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Aruz et al. [2013]:  Aruz, Joan and Sarah B. Graff, Yelena Rakic. Cultures in contact : from Mesopotamia to the Mediterranean in the second millennium B.C.. Yale University Press, '', Online here.

2.  Bass [2013]:  Bass, George F.. ‘Cape Gelidonya Redux’, Aruz et al., ed. [2013], 62-71., '', Online here.

3.  Bass and Throckmorton [1961]:  Bass, George F. and Peter Throckmorton. ‘EXCAVATING A BRONZE AGE SHIPWRECK’, Archaeology (14:2) 78-87. 1961, '', Online here.

4.  Bass et al. [1967]:  Bass, George F. and Peter Throckmorton, Joan Du Plat Taylor, J. B. Hennessy, Alan R. Shulman, Hans-Günter Buchholz. ‘Cape Gelidonya: A Bronze Age Shipwreck’, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, (57:8), 1-177, 1967., '', Online here.