George Fletcher bass

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George Fletcher Bass (born December 9, 1932 in Columbia , South Carolina ) is an American underwater archaeologist .

life and work

Bass is widely considered to be the developer of maritime archeology . He has been working in the Mediterranean , among others, since the early 1960s .

His first underwater excavation was that of a boat at Cape Gelydonia (Kilidonia Burun), a Bronze Age wreck that was first described in 1959 by the American journalist Peter Throckmorton , who had met the wreck through the Turkish sponge diver Kemal Aras. Throckmorton convinced the budding archaeologist that underwater archeology should be carried out according to the same standards as terrestrial archeology. In 1960 both started the excavation at Cape Gelydonia, which was completed in the summer of 1960. The work was continued in 1961 in Yassiada, an ancient Roman port near Bodrum, on two Byzantine wrecks, where, with the help of the German Waldemar Illing, many of today's standard techniques of underwater archeology were developed. The film made by Claude Duthuit with Jean Jaques Flori shows these beginnings impressively.

A later salvage was that of the Uluburun ship . He was Professor of Nautical Archeology at Texas A&M University .

Awards and honors

literature

  • Archeology Under Water by George Fletcher Bass (New York, Praeger, 1966)
  • Archeology under water by George Fletcher Bass (Bergisch Gladbach: Lübbe, 1966)
  • Cape Gelidonya: a Bronze Age Shipwreck by George Fletcher Bass (Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society, 1967)
  • A diversified program for the study of shallow water searching and mapping techniques by George F Bass; Donald M Rosencrantz; United States Dept. of Navy, Office of Naval Research; University of Pennsylvania, University Museum (Philadelphia, Pa .: The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1968)
  • New tools for undersea archeology by George Fletcher Bass (v. 134, no. 3, Sept. 1968) (Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, © 1968)
  • A History of Seafaring Based on Underwater Archeology by George Fletcher Bass (New York, Walker, 1972) ISBN 0802703909
  • Geschiedenis van de scheepvaart weerspiegeld in de scheepsarcheologie by George Fletcher Bass (Bussum: Unieboek, 1973) ISBN 90-228-1908-6
  • Navi e Civiltà: Archeologia Marina by George Fletcher Bass (Milano: Fratelli Fabri, 1974)
  • Archeology Beneath the Sea by George Fletcher Bass (New York: Walker, 1975) ISBN 0-8027-0477-8
  • Glass treasure from the Aegean by George Fletcher Bass (Washington: National Geographic Society, 1978) * Marine archeology: a misunderstood science by George Fletcher Bass (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, © 1980)
  • Tesori in fondo al mare by George Fletcher Bass (Milano: Sonzogno, 1981)
  • Yassi Ada by George Fletcher Bass and Frederick H Van Doorninck (College Station: Published with the cooperation of the Institute of Nautical Archeology by Texas A&M University Press, © 1982) ISBN 0-89096-063-1
  • Ships and Shipwrecks of the Americas: a history based on underwater archeology by George Fletcher Bass (New York, NY: Thames and Hudson, 1988) ISBN 0-500-05049-X
  • Beneath the wine dark sea: nautical archeology and the Phoenicains of the Odyssey by George F Bass
  • Shipwrecks in the Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archeology by George Fletcher Bass and Bodrum Sualtı Arkeoloji Müzesi (Bodrum: Museum of Underwater Archeology, 1996) ISBN 975-17-1605-5
  • Serce Limani, vol. 1: the ship and its anchorage, crew, and passengers by George Fletcher Bass and others (College Station: Published with the cooperation of the Institute of Nautical Archeology by Texas A&M University Press, 2004) ISBN 0-89096-947-7
  • Beneath the Seven Seas: Adventures with the Institute of Nautical Archeology by George Fletcher Bass (London: Thames & Hudson, 2005) ISBN 0-500-05136-4
  • George F. Bass (Ed.): The Depth. Sunken treasures on the ocean floor . From the American English by Thorsten Schmidt, Herbig Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-7766-2483-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member History: George F. Bass. American Philosophical Society, accessed April 21, 2018 (with a short biography).
  2. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter B. (PDF; 1.2 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved April 23, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Bass, George Fletcher
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Columbia, South Carolina