Julian talks about the Kyrenia ship
Dr Julian Whitewright talks about his favourite shipwreck - the Kyrenia ship.
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Mud, glorious mud (and maybe some sand)
Understandably, there is often a focus on maritime archaeological sites that lie underwater and many of the most impressive or important ones, like the Mary Rose, or the Vasa are discussed during the shipwrecks course. We are also familiar with sites on land that have their origins in maritime worlds, ship burials like Sutton Hoo, or silted up harbour sites such as Myos Hormos in Egypt.
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Free maritime archaeology event
Shipwrecks and Submerged Worlds educator, Dr Julian Whitewright, will be giving a talk on maritime archaeology at Southampton Cafe Scientifique:
Introduction to ship archaeology, metallurgical analysis of copper/brass material for dating, dendrochronology, conservation and so on
Date: Monday 8th February 2016
Time: 19:00 for talk 19:30 to 21:00.
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The maritime rhythms of the Indian Ocean monsoon
Throughout the last few thousand years the mariners and trade routes of the Indian Ocean have moved to a unique rhythm based upon the prevailing seasonal weather patterns. These are known individually as a monsoon, derived from the Arabic mawsim, meaning a fixed time of year. Two main monsoons can be identified: blowing from the north-east in the winter and the south-west during the summer with a variable weather season in between.
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Julian Whitewright – a short biography
Hello, I am Julian Whitewright and I am one of the educators on the Shipwrecks and Submerged Worlds course. I work as a maritime archaeologist at the University of Southampton and the Maritime Archaeology Trust (www.maritimearchaeologytrust.org). The areas of maritime archaeology that I am interested in really revolve around boats and ships, and especially the different ways that they were built and used; both now and in the past.
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