entity · site_cape_gelidonya_shipwreck
Cape Gelidonya shipwreck
Also known as: Gelidonya wreck
Shipwreck off southern Anatolia around 1200 BCE carrying copper ingots, scrap metal, tools, and other craft materials.
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.
1220 BCE–1180 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · provides archaeological observation
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)Primary cargo evidence.
Locator: Excavation monograph - informs · contextualizes
The Production and Trade of Cypriot Copper in the Late Bronze Age: An Analysis of the Evidence — Vasiliki Kassianidou (2013)Connects ingots to wider systems.
Locator: Cypriot copper production and trade - informs · provides source criticism
Cyprus at the End of the Late Bronze Age: Crisis and Colonization or Continuity and Hybridization? — Ioannis Voskos, A. Bernard Knapp (2008)Limits ethnic attribution.
Locator: Migration and identity caution
Research description
Cape Gelidonya provides evidence for shipborne metalworking and exchange during the transition. Crew identity, route, and political affiliation remain debated and are not inferred from a single artifact style.
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides archaeological observation
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)Primary cargo evidence.
Locator: Excavation monograph - informs · contextualizes
The Production and Trade of Cypriot Copper in the Late Bronze Age: An Analysis of the Evidence — Vasiliki Kassianidou (2013)Connects ingots to wider systems.
Locator: Cypriot copper production and trade - informs · provides source criticism
Cyprus at the End of the Late Bronze Age: Crisis and Colonization or Continuity and Hybridization? — Ioannis Voskos, A. Bernard Knapp (2008)Limits ethnic attribution.
Locator: Migration and identity caution
Referenced records
- Geography assertion for site_cape_gelidonya_shipwreck · geography assertion