AIA Archaeology Hour | “Excavating a Shipwrecked Marble Column” with Deborah Carlson
Last night — Wednesday, April 17, 2024 at 8:00 p.m. — I watched the final webinar for this season of AIA Archaeology Hour . This talk was sponsored by the AIA Chicago Society and featured guest speaker Deborah Carlson , who works at Texas A&M teaching about ships and shipwrecks of Ancient Greece and Rome, along with being the president of the non-profit organization Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA) . Her talk “Excavating a Shipwrecked Marble Column Destined for the Temple of Apollo at Claros” described the challenges of working underwater while explaining the history behind what she and her team discovered. Carlson explained that the INA and AIA are “sister organizations”. The INA recently celebrated its 50 th anniversary, as “Father of Underwater Archaeology” Dr. George Bass founded the organization in 1973. The shipwreck was found near Kizilburun in the Aegean Sea off the coast of Turkey, an area with a wide range of wreck dates ranging from the 16 th cen