Browsing Electronic Theses, Dissertations, and Records of Study (2002– ) by Author "Wachsmann, Shelley"
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Bartoli, Dante Giuliano (2009-05-15)Five ancient shipwrecks have been found in the sea off Croton, in southern Italy, each carrying a marble cargo composed of massive blocks, column shafts, and smaller artifacts. Three of them were located while surveying ...
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Hagseth, Megan C. (2015-12-16)Cattle in ancient Egypt were a measure of wealth and prestige, and as such figured prominently in tomb art, inscriptions, and even literature. Elite titles and roles such as “Overseer of Cattle” were granted to high ranking ...
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Jones, Michael Rice (Texas A&M University, 2007-09-17)The production and trade in copper and bronze was one of the major features of the complex societies in the Near East and Mediterranean during the third to first millennia B.C. While finished metal objects are common finds ...
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Puckett, Neil 1983- (2012-11-15)The Phoenicians were known as artisans, merchants, and seafarers by the 10th century B.C.E. They exchanged raw and finished goods with people in many cultural spheres of the ancient world and accumulated wealth in the ...
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Leidwanger, Justin Ryan (2009-05-15)During the summers of 2003 and 2004, a small team of graduate students initiated an underwater archaeological survey off the coast of Cyprus as part of the University of Cincinnati excavations at Episkopi-Bamboula. With ...
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Collier, Megan (2013-10-30)The Amun-Userhet was a ship which played a crucial role in the development of religious thought in New Kingdom Egypt. The pharaoh and his entourage sailed down the Nile on its deck as part of a religious celebration called ...
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Jones, Michael Rice (2013-08-19)Since 2005, salvage excavations by the Istanbul Archaeological Museums associated with the Marmaray Project, a major expansion of the transportation infrastructure of Istanbul, Turkey, uncovered 36 Byzantine shipwrecks in ...
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The Wondrous Ocean: Tales of the Headless, Dead, and the Deep From 16th and 17th Century Seafarers Hastings, Garrett R (2021-06-24)The age of seafaring exploration was an era of discovery and fantastical beings. During the 16th and 17th centuries, many Europeans believed in luck, ghosts, foreign monsters, creatures of the deep, and devils. This folklore ...
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Romey, Kristin (Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)The Sea Peoples are generally assumed to be a loose confederation of clans that first appeared in the historical record in the 14th century B.C.E. Over a century of scholarship has puzzled over whether they were responsible ...