Searching for Ancient Shipwrecks in the Aegean Sea: the Discovery of Chios and Kythnos Hellenistic Wrecks with the Use of Marine Geological-Geophysical Methods |
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| Authors: | Dimitris Sakellariou Panos Georgiou Aggellos Mallios Vasilios Kapsimalis Dimitris Kourkoumelis Paraskevi Micha Theotokis Theodoulou Katerina Dellaporta |
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| Affiliation: | Institute of Oceanography, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Anavyssos, Greece; Ephorate for Underwater Antiquities, Ministry of Culture, Athens, Greece |
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| Abstract: | This paper presents the results of two deep-water archaeological surveys recently conducted in the Aegean Sea, and the advantages of using conventional marine geological techniques in deep-water archaeology. Two Hellenistic wrecks were discovered: one in the Chios-Oinousses strait at 70 m, was a concentration of over 400 amphoras in a 1.5-m-high, high-backscattering, morphological high; the second, west of Kythnos island, at 495 m, consisted of a few amphoras scattered in a 20 × 20-m-wide area. Side-scan sonar was integrated with high-resolution sub-bottom profiling, and the integration of the two data-sets proved to contribute significantly to realistic interpretation of the sonar targets.
© 2007 The Authors |
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| Keywords: | side-scan sonar sub-bottom profiling geological interpretation ancient wrecks amphora concentration sedimentation rate |
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