event · evt_cape_gelidonya_wreck
Loss of the Cape Gelidonya metalworking cargo
A vessel sank off southern Anatolia carrying copper ingot fragments, scrap bronze, tools, and other materials associated with shipborne metalworking.
What is the evidence?
observation
A vessel sank off southern Anatolia carrying copper ingot fragments, scrap bronze, tools, and other materials associated with shipborne metalworking.Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Chronology
Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.
1225 BCE–1175 BCE
Precision: approximate
highPreferred display range for this event. It preserves positive BCE ordering and does not suppress narrower contexts or alternative chronology models.
- informs · provides primary excavation evidence
Cape Gelidonya: A Bronze Age Shipwreck — George F. Bass, Peter Throckmorton, Joan du Plat Taylor, J. B. Hennessy, Alan R. Shulman, Hans-Günter Buchholz (1967)Documents the shipborne assemblage.
Locator: Wreck, tools and cargo - informs · contextualizes
The Production and Trade of Cypriot Copper in the Late Bronze Age: An Analysis of the Evidence — Vasiliki Kassianidou (2013)Places the wreck within changing metal networks.
Locator: Copper trade and post-thirteenth-century transition
Interpretation and caveats
The wreck illustrates mobile craft and recycling networks around the transition; crew identity, home port, and exact route remain debated.
Event context
Classification
Event type: shipwreck and metalworking cargo loss
Evidence layer: archaeological
Timeline role: cross regional context
People and places
Locations: Cape Gelidonya shipwreck, Cyprus eastern Mediterranean maritime interaction zone
Why it matters to the timeline
Provides direct archaeological evidence for mobile metallurgical exchange linking Cyprus and southern Anatolia around 1200 BCE.
Research notes
- Documents the shipborne assemblage. Role: provides primary excavation evidence. Locator: Wreck, tools and cargo.
- Places the wreck within changing metal networks. Role: contextualizes. Locator: Copper trade and post-thirteenth-century transition.
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides primary excavation evidence
Cape Gelidonya: A Bronze Age Shipwreck — George F. Bass, Peter Throckmorton, Joan du Plat Taylor, J. B. Hennessy, Alan R. Shulman, Hans-Günter Buchholz (1967)Documents the shipborne assemblage.
Locator: Wreck, tools and cargo - informs · contextualizes
The Production and Trade of Cypriot Copper in the Late Bronze Age: An Analysis of the Evidence — Vasiliki Kassianidou (2013)Places the wreck within changing metal networks.
Locator: Copper trade and post-thirteenth-century transition