Lauren Tidbury, Author at Honor Frost Foundation

Up from the Sea: mariner networks in ports across the Late Bronze Age east Mediterranean

Up from the Sea: mariner networks in ports across the Late Bronze Age east Mediterranean – 2016 L. Hulin and S. German Activities The Honor Frost Foundation provided funding for two activities: a scoping visit to Cyprus and fieldwork in Crete and Cyprus. We met Despo Pilides, Chief curator of museums in Cyprus, on 20th […]

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The construction and use-life of ancient war-galleys

The construction and use-life of ancient war-galleys: Wood Analysis of the Warships from the Battle of the Egadi Islands (241 BCE) – ongoing Dr. Ross Thomas and Dr. Peter Campbell This study aims to identify the wood used to construct some of the warships that were sunk at the battle of Egadi and radiocarbon (14C)

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Resolution and Reason: evaluating underwater 3D data capture for archaeology

Resolution and Reason: evaluating underwater 3D data capture for archaeology – ongoing Fraser Sturt Increasing use of three and four (time) dimensional datasets have revolutionised maritime archaeology. Over the last decade we have seen rapid technological developments with regard to systems for both gathering and processing data from underwater. Together these advancements are allowing us

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A comparative Tool Mark and Fastener Database for Maritime Archaeology

A comparative Tool Mark and Fastener Database for Maritime Archaeology – 2017 Thomas Dhoop, Michael McCarthy and Catriona Cooper Introduction On 6th January 2016, Thomas Dhoop, Michael McCarthy and Catriona Cooper were awarded a grant by the Honor Frost Foundation towards the creation of a comparative tool mark and fastener database for maritime archaeology. This

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Mai Ghanem – 2019-2020- Southampton MA

Mai Ghanem – 2019 – 2021 – University of Southampton MA Scholar. During my fourth year of studying Islamic Archaeology, I had the opportunity to attend an introductory module about maritime archaeology in the Centre for Maritime Archaeology at Alexandria University. Since then, maritime archaeology has been the main focus of my studies and research

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Noran Hamed – 2019- 2022- Southampton PhD

Noran Hamed – 2019 – Complete- University of Southampton PhD Scholar Being passionate about archaeology since I was nine and having a lifetime dream of being an archaeologist encouraged me to get a BA in Egyptology from Ain Shams University – Cairo in 2008. Then, I received an MA in Cultural Heritage Management from Université

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Achilleas Iasonos – 2019-2021- Oxford University PhD

Achilleas Iasonos – 2019-2021 – Oxford University Scholar My DPhil project ‘Deep-Sea Archaeology in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of Cyprus’ has demonstrated that it is possible to conduct research, and hence add new and unpublished information regarding Underwater Cultural Heritage (UCH) in the deep seas, by taking advantage of datasets (both geophysical and video-photography)

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Finite Element Analysis of Shell-First and Longitudinally Reinforced Frame-Based Wooden Ships – 2019

Nathan Helfman, Boaz Nishri and Deborah Cvikel were awarded an Open Access Grant to publish their paper in the Journal of Maritime Archaeology as an open access article. Abstract During the period between the 5th century BC and the 6th century AD, two ship construction technologies were prevalent around the Mediterranean Sea: shell-first and frame-based.

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Archeo-Paleomagnetic Dating

Archeo-Paleomagnetic Dating of Transport Amphoras from Submerged Contexts – ongoing Dr. Peter Campbell, Dr. George Koutsouflakis, and Dr. Chuang Xuan Over two seasons, the Fourni Underwater Survey has located 45 shipwrecks. While many more shipwrecks are expected to be found over the final two years of the survey, these shipwreck already represent a substantial dataset

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Ancient Maritime Dynamics- 2017

Ancient Maritime Dynamics – 2017 Dr Matthew Harpster The Ancient Maritime Dynamics (AMD) program is a suite of investigations that are refining the use and application of maritime archaeological data to reconstruct the life of the Mediterranean maritime community in antiquity. Whereas other components of AMD are comparing our archaeological narrative of maritime life to

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