Speakers
Dr Giulia BOETTO
First-class Researcher in Nautical and Maritime Archaeology, National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), France
Biography:
Giulia Boetto is a first-class researcher in Nautical and Maritime Archaeology at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). She graduated from the University of Turin (1993), and obtained her MA in Classical Archaeology from the University of Turin (1998). She was granted a one-year scholarship from the University of Turin at the Centre Camille Jullian (1995), and short scholarships from the Centre for Maritime Archaeology in Roskilde (1997), and École Française de Rome (2005). She worked as freelance (contractual) land and underwater archaeologist for the Italian Ministry of Culture, and was in charge of the EU-funded projects (Navis I and Navis II), and other research activities of the Museum of Roman Ships at Fiumicino and the Archaeological Superintendence of Ostia. Her recent publications include La Batellerie Portuaire (2014), Le Centre Camille Jullian et l’Archéologie Navale (2014), and Traditions Régionales d’Architecture Navale en Adriatique à l’Époque Romaine (2012).
Abstract:
New Data for the Study of the Ancient Shipbuilding Traditions in the Adriatic Region
From 2007, the team of underwater archaeologists and technicians of the Centre Camille Jullian (Aix-Marseille University, CNRS) is involved in several research programs in Croatia, in the frame of bilateral scientific collaborations with government institutes (University of Zadar, Archaeological Museum of Istria and Croatian Conservation Institute). The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia and the French Ministry for Foreign Affairs mainly support these researches.
The paper will present the data gathered from the study of several shipwrecks dated from the Bronze Age to the Roman Era, recently excavated in Croatia, in coastal and riverine areas. The study of these shipwrecks sheds new light on the local shipbuilding practices and gives an insight on the different shipbuilding traditions, which succeeded in the Adriatic and in the adjacent continental regions in Ancient Times.