The oceans and seas are the last great frontier for Near Eastern archaeology. Year after year, the Mediterranean Sea yields rich new data from prehistory to late antiquity: ports and harbors, maritime facilities, and shipwrecks that make global headlines, such as the 14th-century BCE Uluburun shipwreck and its precious cargo discovered in 1982 off the coast of Turkey.1 These discoveries require scholars to employ a special set of tools and methodologies that characterize a specialized subfield—marine archaeology.Some recent PaleoJudaica posts on Maritime (Marine, Underwater, Nautical!) Archaeology are here, here, here, here, and here. With lots of links for you to follow.[...]
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