Peter Throckmorton

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Peter Throckmorton (* 1928 , † 5. June 1990 in Newcastle , Maine ) was an American author, journalist, divers and underwater archaeologist .

Life

Throckmorton was a founding member of the Sea Research Society . As an author, he has published several books on underwater archeology . He taught at Nova Southeastern University in Florida . In 1975 the archaeologist Throckmorton discovered a shipload at a depth of 20 m in the Greek bay of Dokos , which, based on the ceramic finds, was dated between 2400 and 2200 BC. Was dated.

Works (selection)

  • as editor: The Sea Remembers: Shipwrecks and Archeology from Homer's Greece to the Rediscovery of the Titanic. Smithmark Publishers, New York 1987, ISBN 1-55584-093-0 .
  • Oldest Known Shipwreck Yields Bronze Age Cargo. In: National Geographic. 121.5 (May 1962), pp. 696-671.
  • The Lost Ships: An Adventure in Underwater Archeology. Boston / Toronto 1964, ISBN 0-86438-044-5 .
  • The economics of treasure hunting with real life comparisons. 1990.
  • with Michael G. Walton and Honor Frost : Surveying in Archeology. Aris & Phillips, 1969, ISBN 0-85668-063-X .
  • Diving for Treasure. The Viking Press, New York City / Penguin Books Canada, 1977, ISBN 0-670-27449-6 .
  • as editor: History from the Sea. ISBN 0-86438-044-5 .
  • Shipwrecks and Archeology - The Unharvested Sea. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, Toronto 1970.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Seán McGrail: Boats of the World. From the Stone Age to Medieval Times . Oxford University Press, Oxford et al. 2004, ISBN 0-19-927186-0 , pp. 105 (English).