Neutron Activation Analysis of Aegean-Style IIIC Pottery at Maa: Palaeokastro – 2018 Penelope A Mountjoy The fortified settlement of Maa: Palaeokastro is situated on the west coast of Cyprus on a long promontory with a sheltered bay each side of it to the north and to the south offering protected harbours. Coastal plains extend 3-5 […]
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CADMOS-S project – Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) – 2018 Alexandre Sursock and Milad Fakhri Geophysical Survey off southern Lebanon The CADMOS-S project was one of the first maritime archaeology programmes in Lebanon to use geophysical means of exploration. It was jointly funded, over the last two years (2015-2017), by the Honor Frost
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The Kyrenia Ship Conservation Project – 2015-18 The Kyrenia Ship and the objects found associated with it are regarded as one of the foremost archaeological shipwreck finds in the world. Both the reassembled Hull and the plethora of ceramics, amphorae, copper-alloy finds, lead objects and organics have and still do provide archaeologists, researchers, scholars, museum
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Nautical Archaeology Society Fieldschools – Lebanon The Foundation has so far supported two fieldschools in Lebanon led by the Nautical Archaeology Society. The aim of the fieldschools is to build capacity in the region through training in the recording and surveying of underwater cultural heritage. 2017 Fieldschool 2018 Fieldschool 2017 Fieldschool At the beginning of
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Anfeh, Lebanon Dr Lucy Semaan 2015-2018 J. Jansen van Rensburg 2014 Dr Lucy Semaan 2015-2018 Location of Anfeh, credit C.Safadi Anfeh, is a village in the Koura district of the North Governorate of Lebanon. It is located 15 km south of Tripoli and 70 km north of Beirut. The coastal village is extended by a
DNA from the Wine-Dark Sea – 2017 Lisa Briggs ‘DNA from the Wine-Dark Sea’ sought to assess whether DNA analysis can be effectively used to identify past vessel contents in amphorae and other ceramic vessels recovered from ancient shipwrecks. Prior studies (Hansson and Foley 2008; Foley et al 2012) had claimed that by both destructive
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Under the Mediterranean 2017 Bursaries were awarded to 17 candidates to attend the Honor Frost Foundation ‘Under the Mediterranean’ conference held in Cyprus during October 2017. The bursaries were awarded to a variety of candidates undertaking research on sites across the eastern Mediterranean. They presented both papers and posters at the conference which was also
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The Harbour of Mi-wer: a Major Interface between Maritime and Terrestrial Roads – 2017 Dr Marine Yoyotte In Egyptology, even though the Nile constitutes the main travel route, it is only with recent geoarchaeological studies of the evolution of the Nile that interest in fluvial harbours has considerably grown. This theme is of primary importance
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Accurately Surveying the Anchorage at Maroni-Tsaroukkas, Cyprus – 2017 Dr Carrie Fulton Just off the south-central coast of Maroni-Tsaroukkas, Cyprus, is an anchorage with stone anchors, stone blocks, and ceramics that dates to the Late Bronze Age (LBA: approximately 1700-1100 BCE). While the anchorage was surveyed in the 1990s (Manning et al, 2002) spatial resolution
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Nailing it Down: Completing the study of the metal fastenings of the Kyrenia Ship – 2017 Wendy Van Duivenvoorde The early 3rd-century B.C. shipwreck at Kyrenia, Cyprus, was excavated in its entirety in 1968–1969 and provided the remains of a well-preserved Mediterranean merchant ship and its cargo. The ship sank in the first decade of
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