ARCHAEOLOGY TANTURA LAGOON, ISRAEL: A COVE OF MANY SHIPWRECKS

November 9, 7:30pm - 8:30pm
Mānoa Campus, ART BUILDING 132 ART AUDITORIUM

TANTURA LAGOON, ISRAEL: A COVE OF MANY SHIPWRECKS PROFESSOR SHELLEY WACHSMANN, TEXAS A&M, INSTITUTE OF NAUTICAL ARCHAEOLOGY Tantura Lagoon is one of the few natural rocky harbors along Israel’s Mediterranean coast. It has served as a port facility for Tel Dor and its immediate region since the settlement’s founding, circa 2000 B.C. The cove is shallow and covered with a constantly shifting sand blanket that buries shipwrecks and their cargoes, protecting them from biological attack, storms and currents, making it an ideal environment for shipwreck archaeology: a naturally preserving environment that has been active for millennia.From 1994 to 1996 Shelley Wachsmann directed exploration of shipwrecks and relatedartifacts in the cove as head of a joint expedition fielded by the Institute of Nautical Archaeology at Texas A&M University and Haifa University’s Center for Maritime Studies. The project revealed remains of seven previously unknown hulls ranging in date from the fourth to the 18th centuries A.D., all of which were found within an area about the size of a regulation basketball court.


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