primary excavation publication · src_bass_et_al_1967_gelidonya
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
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Document and modern access
- Type
- shipwreck excavation monograph
- Publication
- American Philosophical Society
Records informed by this source
- geography assertion Cape Gelidonya shipwreck — geography assertioninforms · locates · Published wreck location off the Lycian coast
Representative point for the archaeological site. It is not a settlement footprint, harbour boundary, cemetery extent, or political territory.
- date assertion Cape Gelidonya shipwreck — date assertioninforms · provides archaeological observation · Excavation monograph
Primary cargo evidence.
- entity Mobile craft specialists and shipborne metalworkersEvidence confidence: moderateinforms · provides archaeological observation · Metalworking tools and scrap cargo
Documents a shipborne craft assemblage.
- date assertion Mobile craft specialists and shipborne metalworkers — date assertioninforms · provides archaeological observation · Metalworking tools and scrap cargo
Documents a shipborne craft assemblage.
- entity Cape Gelidonya shipwreckEvidence confidence: very highinforms · provides archaeological observation · Excavation monograph
Primary cargo evidence.
- entity Cyprus eastern Mediterranean maritime interaction zoneEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides cargo evidence · Cape Gelidonya wreck
Documents a separate c. 1200 BCE metalworking cargo.
- date assertion Cyprus eastern Mediterranean maritime interaction zone — date assertioninforms · provides cargo evidence · Cape Gelidonya wreck
Documents a separate c. 1200 BCE metalworking cargo.
- relationship Research record — associated withEvidence confidence: moderateinforms · provides comparative cargo evidence · Scrap and ingot cargo around 1200 BCE
Shows a different shipborne metal assemblage.
- relationship Research record — associated withEvidence confidence: moderateinforms · provides comparative cargo evidence · Scrap and ingot cargo around 1200 BCE
Shows a different shipborne metal assemblage.
- event Contraction of the oxhide-ingot export systemEvidence confidence: moderateinforms · provides comparative cargo evidence · Scrap and ingot cargo around 1200 BCE
Shows a different shipborne metal assemblage.
- event Loss of the Cape Gelidonya metalworking cargoEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides primary excavation evidence · Wreck, tools and cargo
Documents the shipborne assemblage.
- relationship Research record — associated withEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides primary excavation evidence · Wreck, tools and cargo
Documents the shipborne assemblage.
- relationship Loss of the Cape Gelidonya metalworking cargo — occurred at or affected — Cape Gelidonya shipwreckEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides primary excavation evidence · Wreck, tools and cargo
Documents the shipborne assemblage.
- relationship Loss of the Cape Gelidonya metalworking cargo — occurred at or affected — Cyprus eastern Mediterranean maritime interaction zoneEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides primary excavation evidence · Wreck, tools and cargo
Documents the shipborne assemblage.
- date assertion Loss of the Cape Gelidonya metalworking cargo — date assertionEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides primary excavation evidence · Wreck, tools and cargo
Documents the shipborne assemblage.
- relationship Research record — associated withEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides primary excavation evidence · Wreck, tools and cargo
Documents the shipborne assemblage.
- causal hypothesis Network disruption reduced bulk copper exportsEvidence confidence: moderateinforms · provides transition comparator · Scrap-rich cargo around 1200 BCE
Shows changed shipborne metal organization.
- relationship Cape Gelidonya shipwreck — connected by cargo to — Cyprus eastern Mediterranean maritime interaction zoneEvidence confidence: highinforms · supports · Wreck cargo and metalworking assemblage
Documents the connection and uncertainties.
- claim The oxhide-ingot form documents standardized handling and exchange practices but is not by itself a state emblem, proof of Cypriot ownership, or marker of one trade route.Evidence confidence: highsupports · supports · Gelidonya ingot and scrap assemblage
Shows reuse and mobile craft circulation.
- claim A maritime interaction zone records a region of evidenced or plausible connectivity and must not be displayed as sovereignty, territorial sea, or an exact ship route.Evidence confidence: near certainsupports · supports · Wreck and crew debate
Shows route and identity uncertainty.