Speakers

Prof Harun  Özdaş
Associate Professor & Vice Director, Institute of Marine Sciences and Technology, Dokuz Eylül University

Biography:

Harun Özdaş is an associate professor at Dokuz Eylül University, Institute of Marine Sciences and Technology, in Izmir, Turkey. He obtained his PhD from Hacettepe University, Ankara. Before he became a professor at Dokuz Eylül University, he worked as a curator at the Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology in Turkey. He participated in multiple international meetings as a lecturer and represented the Turkish Ministry of Culture in several meetings. Additionally, he is President of the Turkish National Commission for UNESCO, which is responsible for “The Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage Convention”. Özdaş was also a visiting scholar at Texas A&M University and Duke University, and he completed a portion of his research at the Byzantine Studies Department, Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard, Washington DC. He was also a lecturer at Marburg University, Germany. He is now a coordinator of Turkey’s Shipwreck Inventory Project.

Abstract:

Shipwreck Discoveries of the Aegean Sea near Bozburun Peninsula 

Over 150 shipwrecks between the Çanakkale Strait (Dardanelles) in the North and Mersin in the South were discovered within the framework of Turkey’s Shipwreck Inventory Project, which was launched by the Institute of Marine Sciences and Technology at Dokuz Eylül University. All shipwrecks and other archaeological findings were recorded in the National Geographical Information System developed by our institute. This paper is about some of these shipwrecks from the coast of Bozburun Peninsula. They date from the Archaic Period to the Ottoman Period. Shipwrecks located in the Rhodes Channel are the most concrete evidence of busy sea trade in the Caria region over time.