Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Lorentzen, Brita
• Manning, Sturt W.
• Cvikel, Deborah
• Kahanov, Yaacov

Titel

High-precision dating the Akko 1 shipwreck, Israel: wiggle-matching the life and death of a ship into the historical record

Ist Teil von

• Journal of archaeological science, 2014-01, Vol.41, p.772-783

Ort / Verlag

Elsevier Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The Akko 1 shipwreck is the remains of an eastern Mediterranean naval or auxiliary brig, which was found inside the ancient harbor of Akko, Israel. The shipwreck and finds were recorded underwater, and some of the ship components, along with the majority of the finds, were retrieved and analyzed. A Bayesian dating model, incorporating 14C wiggle-matching of the ship timbers, tree-ring analysis, and 14C dates from short-lived finds, is used to model the ship's construction and wrecking dates. These new data, combined with the results of archaeological research and available historical records, suggest that the ship was built during the first third of the 19th century as part of Muhammad Ali's fleet. Akko 1 then possibly plied the eastern Mediterranean under the Egyptian flag during the First Egyptian–Ottoman War in 1831–1833. The wrecking event apparently occurred during the 1840 naval bombardment of Akko. This is the first time that 14C wiggle-matching and Bayesian analyses have been used to date the construction and wrecking of a shipwreck in the southeastern Mediterranean. The results show that Bayesian analysis and 14C wiggle-matching techniques are valuable tools for analyzing the region's shipwrecks, including those from recent historical periods. •The Akko 1 shipwreck was an Egyptian naval or auxiliary brig.•Bayesian and wiggle-matching methods model its construction and wrecking dates.•It was built during the first third of the 19th century and shipwrecked around 1840.•It was likely built and served as part of Muhammad Ali's fleet.