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shipwreck
CATEGORY: artifact
DEFINITION: The remains of sunken ships, which are often investigated by underwater archaeologists.

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Cape Gelidoniya
CATEGORY: site
DEFINITION: The site of a Bronze Age shipwreck off the southwestern coast of Turkey between Rhodes and Cyprus from the 13th century BC. The small merchant ship was carrying copper and bronze ingots, still wrapped in basketry. Excavation also produced a structural plan of the ship, including evidence of a grill of twigs on the bows to keep water off the deck -- a technique still in use today. The finds included pottery and three scarabs.
Cibola
SYNONYM: Seven Golden Cities of Cibola
CATEGORY: term
DEFINITION: A mythical gold-rich land sought by the Spanish conquistadors in the 16th century, legendary cities of splendor and riches. The fabulous cities were first reported by Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca who, after being shipwrecked off Florida in 1528, had wandered through what later became Texas and northern Mexico before his rescue in 1536. In 1540, Francisco Vázquez de Coronado was sent to search for the cities; he found only a group of Zuni pueblos, though he had explored as far north as modern Kansas.
Giglio Island
CATEGORY: site
DEFINITION: A mountainous volcanic island off the coast of Etruria which has an archaic Etruscan shipwreck with a cargo of amphorae filled with olives, ingots, and perfumed oil in Corinthian and Etruscan aryballoi.
Kas
SYNONYM: Kas-Ulu Burun
CATEGORY: site
DEFINITION: Site of a Bronze Age shipwreck off Cap Uluburun, Turkey, which was probably going to the Aegean when it sank in the 14th century BC. Objects found in 1982 in the shipwreck include the first known gold scarab of the Egyptian queen Nefertiti. Other items are copper, tin and glass ingots, bronze tools and weapons, jewelry for the Near East, Egypt, and the Aegean; and pottery from Cyprus, Canaan, and Mycenae. The ship's contents reveal a tight web of interconnections in the later 14th century among Mycenaean Greece, Cyprus, Egypt, Palestine, Syria, and Africa.
ox-hide ingot
CATEGORY: artifact
DEFINITION: Type of ingot either of copper or tin circulating in the Mediterranean in the early Bronze Age. It was shaped like a stretched ox-hide: roughly rectangular with a projection at each corner. The copper examples weigh about 27kg each and probably come from mines in Cyprus. More than 200 of them were found together with a wealth of other traded objects in a shipwreck dating to the 14th century BC near Kas off the south coast of Turkey.
Porticello
CATEGORY: site
DEFINITION: Site of a shipwreck in the Straits of Messina between Italy and Sicily, c 440-430 BC. The cargo included lifesize bronze statuary, amphorae, ingots, ink pots, and fine pottery.
Quanzhou
SYNONYM: Ch'üan-chou
CATEGORY: site
DEFINITION: Late 13th century AD Song dynasty shipwreck at Houzhou, China. It was a 24-meter-long keeled ship with 13 compartments. The acquisition and preservation of this massive artifact was spectacular; it is on display in a Chinese museum.
underwater archaeology
CATEGORY: branch
DEFINITION: The study of sites and shipwrecks beneath the surface of the water, much more difficult to recover than material that has been buried. Since the invention of the aqualung in World War II, techniques for overcoming the difficulties have advanced. Specialized techniques have been developed to solve the problems of excavating and recording under water and of raising finds from the sea and lake beds, as well as subsequent problems of conservation of materials previously preserved under water. Underwater archaeology includes the examination of submerged settlement sites under freshwater lakes, in harbors, and shipwrecks under the sea. This branch of archaeology was pioneered in the Mediterranean.
Wando
CATEGORY: site
DEFINITION: Site off South Cholla province, Korea, of a late 11th century AD Koryo shipwreck. There were 30,000 celadon vessels from kilns in Haenam on the ship.

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