Program

Research Programs: Archaeology Projects

Period of Performance

5/1/1995 - 5/31/1996

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$62,279.00 (approved)
$62,278.59 (awarded)


Bozburun Project, Turkey

FAIN: RK-20205-95

Texas A & M Research Foundation (College Station, TX 77843-0001)
Frederick M. Hocker (Project Director: October 1994 to January 1997)

To support a team of archaeologists in the underwater excavation of an early 9th-century A.D. shipwreck off the coast of Turkey. The results are expected to illustrate medieval shipbuilding technology, material culture, and trade.