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Bass, George Fletcher was born on December 9, 1932 in Columbia, South Carolina, United States. Son of Robert Duncan and Virginia (Wauchope) Bass.
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A history based on Underwater Nautical Archaelology of Ships and Shipwrecks of the Americas. Edited by George F. Bass.
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This book tells the incredible story of a half century of unlocking the mysteries of ancient shipwrecks. It is the story of of George F. Bass and his team, who are recognized as the pioneers of marine archaeology. ARCHAEOLOGY BENEATH THE SEA chronicles the enormous challenges they faced in developing techniques of underwater surveys and excavations, with remarkable results. Their most valuable excavations, in Turkey, are illustrated by breath-taking photos. ARCHAEOLOGY BENEATH THE SEA is a unique adventure not to be missed. GEORGE F. BASS: The "Father of Nautical Archaeology," George Bass has spent his career furthering the cause of underwater archaeology, excavating unique sites, including those at Uluburun and Cape Gelidonya , and founding the Institute of Nautical Archaeology, now affiliated with Texas A&M University, where he holds the title of Distinguished Professor Emeritus. He began diving in 1960.By 1967 his team was the first to locate an ancient wreck with side-scan sonar, a 280-foot-deep site inspected from their submersible Asherah. Between 1977 and 1979 he excavated at Serçe Limanı, Turkey, an 11th-century A.D. ship with three tons of broken glass; mended from a million shards over 20 years, it is the largest collection of medieval Islamic glass in existence. The National Geographic Society awarded him its La Gorce Gold Medal in 1979 and, in 1988, one of its fifteen Centennial Awards. In 1999 he received the JC Harrington Medal from The Society for Historical Archaeology. President George W. Bush presented him with the National Medal of Science in 2002. George Bass has written or edited ten books and over a hundred articles. He and his wife Ann,dividinge their time between College Station, Texas, and Bodrum, Turkey, built a house next to INA’s Research Center. This book tells the incredible story of a half century of unlocking the mysteries of ancient shipwrecks. It is the story of George F. Bass and his team, who are recognized as the pioneers of marine archaeology. ARCHAEOLOGY BENEATH THE SEA chronicles the enormous challenges they faced in developing techniques of underwater surveys and excavations, with remarkable results. Their most significant excavations, in Turkey, are illustrated by breath-taking photos. ARCHAEOLOGY BENEATH THE SEA is a unique adventure not to be missed. GEORGE F. BASS: Considered the "Father of Nautical Archaeology," George Bass has spent his career furthering the cause of underwater archaeology, excavating unique sites, including those at Uluburun and Cape Gelidonya, and founding the Institute of Nautical Archaeology, now affiliated with Texas A&M University, where he holds the title of Distinguished Professor Emeritus. He began diving in 1960. By 1967 his team was the first to locate an ancient wreck with side-scan sonar, a 280-foot-deep site inspected from their submersible Asherah. Between 1977 and 1979 he excavated at Serçe Limanı, Turkey, an 11th-century A.D. ship with three tons of broken glass; mended from a million shards over 20 years, it is the largest collection of medieval Islamic glass in existence. The National Geographic Society awarded him its La Gorce Gold Medal in 1979 and, in 1988, one of its fifteen Centennial Awards. In 1999 he received the JC Harrington Medal from The Society for Historical Archaeology. President George W. Bush presented him with the National Medal of Science in 2002. George Bass has written or edited ten books and over a hundred articles. He and his wife Ann, dividing their time between College Station, Texas, and Bodrum, Turkey, built a house next to INA’s Bodrum Research Center.
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This book forms a final report on the underwater excavations I directed at Yassi Ada, Turkey, during the summers of 1961 through 1964 for the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania. The excavation was the first to have been completed on the floor of the Mediterranean of a wreck with substantial hull remains. This pioneering work required the ingenuity, effort, and generosity of many people and institutions. The seventh- century ship was chosen for primary excavation not only for its lesser depth, which allowed longer working dives, but also because Throckmorton had uncovered traces of its timbers just beneath the sand and because it was more intelligible from the outset: a stack of concreted iron anchors, lying across the cargo at its upper end, suggested the forward part of the ship pointing up the slope, toward Yassi Ada, while a mass of broken terra-cotta tiles and cooking ware suggested the galley—and, presumably, the stern—at the deeper end of the site.
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Firsthand accounts from around the world of more than forty of the most important shipwreck and sunken-city projects ever undertaken. From the Pacific to the Mediterranean, from the Caribbean to the Red Sea, from northern Europe and the northern United States to the Indian Ocean, archaeologists vividly describe shipwrecks from centuries past, from the oldest and deepest ever excavated to the remains of battles in both the European and Pacific theaters of World War II. Readers will dive nearly 200 feet with Cemal Pulak on a royal ship that sank over 3,300 years ago off the Aegean coast of Turkey, and explore with Donny Hamilton the streets and houses of the richest English colony in the New World, the infamous pirate stronghold of Port Royal, Jamaica, swallowed by the sea in 1692. They will accompany famed undersea explorer Robert Ballard, discoverer of the Titanic, as he and Cheryl Ward search for shipwrecks in the deep, oxygen-free waters of the Black Sea. They will wade with archaeologist Fred Hocker through mud along the bank of a South Carolina river, and then sail through a gale with Susan Womer Katzev on a full-scale replica of the best-preserved ancient Greek ship yet raised from the depths of the Mediterranean. The book describes the tragic loss, within sight of their loved ones, of seamen returning home to Portugal in 1606, at the end of a two-year voyage to the East on the Nossa Senhora dos Martires, and then describes the fate of the crew of another Portuguese ship, the Santo Antonio de Tanna, which sank off Mombasa, Kenya, while trying to lift the siege of Fort Jesus by Omani Arabs in 1697. It describes the foods, games, weapons, tools, and grooming implements on a ship sailed by Bulgarian merchants around AD 1025, carrying as cargo the largest known collections of medieval Islamic glass and glazed pottery. 350 color illustrations.
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( For almost a millennium, a modest wooden ship lay under...)
For almost a millennium, a modest wooden ship lay underwater off the coast of Serçe Limani, Turkey, filled with evidence of trade and objects of daily life. The ship, now excavated by the Institute of Nautical Archaeology at Texas A&M University, trafficked in both the Byzantine and Islamic worlds of its time. Known as "the Glass Wreck," it bore cargo that included three metric tons of glass cullet, including broken Islamic vessels and eighty pieces of intact glassware, along with various artifacts of ship life. This second volume of the discovery’s investigation focuses on the excavation, conservation, and study of the glass found in the wreckage. The extensive catalog will be a valuable tool for archaeologists and scholars of Islamic glass and Islamic trade. Further, the systematic methodology and presentation of such a large undertaking will serve as a model for future study across many disciplines.
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Bass, George Fletcher was born on December 9, 1932 in Columbia, South Carolina, United States. Son of Robert Duncan and Virginia (Wauchope) Bass.
Master of Arts, Johns Hopkins University, 1955. Doctor of Philosophy, University Pennsylvania, 1964. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, 1987.
Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University Liverpool, 1998.
Assistant professor, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1964-1968; associate professor, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1968-1973; professor archaeology, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical U., College Station, 1976-1980; Distinguished professor, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical U., College Station, since 1980; George T. and Gladys H. Abell professor nautical archaeology, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical U., College Station, since 1986; Yamini Family professor, since 1994. Director excavations of ancient shipwrecks off Turkish coast, since 1960. President Institute Nautical Archaeology, 1972-1982, 96-.
( This book forms a final report on the underwater excava...)
( For almost a millennium, a modest wooden ship lay under...)
(Firsthand accounts from around the world of more than for...)
(This book tells the incredible story of a half century of...)
(A history based on Underwater Nautical Archaelology of Sh...)
(238 pp. with 80 illus. in b/w & color, 8vo.)
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Lieutenant United States Army, 1957-1959, Korea. Member Institute Nautical Archaeology (president 1973-1982), Archaeol. Institute American (Gold medal for distinguished archaeological achievement 1986), Society for History Archaeology (J.C. Harrington medal 1999), National Maritime History Society, Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
Married Ann Singletary, March 19, 1960. Children: Gordon Wauchope, Alan Joseph.