Between continents : proceedings of the Twelfth Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology, Istanbul 2009 / edited by Nergis Günsenin ; sponsored and hosted by the Istanbul Research Institute of the Suna and İnan Kiraç Foundation.

"Under the auspices of the Underwater Technology Program at Istanbul University's Vocational School of Technical Sciences in partnership with the Faculty of Letters, Department of Restoration and Conservation of Artefacts."

Includes bibliographical references.

Brief history of nautical archaeology in Turkey / George F. Bass -- pt. A. News from the Mediterranean. Between the seabed and the public : data collection for a virtual museum from the underwater survey at Kaş, Turkey / Güzden Varinlioğlu ; Elif Denel -- Pharaonic ship remains of Ayn Sukhna / Patrice Pomey-- Middle Bronze Age boat of Mitrou, central Greece / Aleydis Van de Moortel -- Iron Age Phoenician shipwreck excavation at Bajo de la Campana, Spain : preliminary report from the field / Mark E. Polzer -- Kızılburun Column Wreck preliminary hull analysis : maximum results from minimum remains / John D. Littlefield-- Tantura E : hull construction report / Eyal Israeli ; Kahanov, Yaacov -- 16th-century wreck found near the island of Mljet, Croatia / Igor Mihajlović ; Igor Miholjek ; Mladen Pešić -- Akko 1 shipwreck : the archaeological find and its historical context / Deborah Cvikel -- pt. B. News from northern Europe. 15th-century bulk carrier, wrecked off Skaftö, western Sweden / Staffan von Arbin-- Barcode project : fifteen Nordic clinker-built boats from the 16th and 17th centuries in the city centre of Oslo, Norway / Jostein Gundersen -- Loss and rediscovery of the Swedish "Prinsessan Hedvig Sophia" in the Baltic Sea near Kiel, Germany / Jens Auer ; Martin Segschneider-- Investigation of the wreck site of the 18th-century Russian warship "St. Alexander" near the Tarkhankutski lighthouse (Crimea, Ukraine) / Oleg A. Zolotarev ; Viktor D. Kobets -- Identification of the 18th-century shipwreck W-27 on the basis of a comparative analysis of archaeological and archival sources / Tomasz Bednarz --

pt. C. The Byzantine ships at Yenikapı. "City" harbours from antiquity through medieval times / Nergis Günsenin -- Byzantine shipwrecks at Yenikapı / Ufuk Kocabaş -- Hull characteristics of the Yenikapı 12 shipwreck / Işıl Özsait Kocabaş -- Preliminary report on the Yenikapı 17 shipwreck / Evren Türkmenoğlu -- Ethnicity and sphere of activity of the crew of the 11th-century Serçe Limanı ship : some tentative observations / Frederick H. Van Doorninck, Jr. -- pt. D. Mediterranean and Black Sea ships and seafaring. Byzantine ship graffiti in the Kilise Mescidi of Amasra / Kostas A. Damianidis -- Roman ships carrying marble : were these vessels in some way special? / Carlo Beltrame ; Valeria Vittorio -- Between east and west in the Roman Empire : skippers and shipowners from the eastern Mediterranean / Thomas Schmidts -- 14th-century galley fleet from the Black Sea : the case of Codex 5 in the Hellenic Institute of Venice / Yannis D. Nakas -- Reflections on the graffiti of Haghia Sophia at Trebizond (Trabzon), Turkey / Lucien Basch -- İnebolu boat : last surviving Black Sea ship of "shell-first" construction and the evolution of boatbuilding in the western Black Sea coast of Anatolia / Hüseyin Çoban -- pt. E. Ottoman shipbuilding. Design and construction of a Black Sea Ottoman ship / Kroum N. Batchvarov -- Technological developments in the imperial dockyard (tersane-i amire) : anchor manufacture for the galleons of the Ottoman navy / Yusuf Alperen Aydın -- Lesser known branch in the Ottoman imperial dockyard : tîr-i güverte / Metin Ünver --

pt. F. Ship construction. Wreck of the 1st-century AD Lyon Saint-Georges 8 (Rhône, France) : a ferry or a ligther from the river Saône? / Marc Guyon ; Eric Rieth -- Arles-Rhône 3 : architectural and paleobotanical study of a Gallo-Roman barge from the 1st century in the Rhône River / Sabrina Marlier ; Sandra Greck ; Frédéric Guibal ; Valérie Andrieu-Ponel -- Introductory note to a 1202 Genoese trading ship (navis) / Furio Cicilliot -- 15th-century EP1-Canche wreck (Pas-de-Calais, France) : a fluvio-maritime coaster of cog tradition in the north of France? / Eric Rieth -- Drogheda boat : a story to tell / Holger Schweitzer -- Regional characteristics of the Iberian-Atlantic shipbuilding tradition : Arade 1 shipwreck case study / Vanessa Loureiro -- Use of pine sheathing on Dutch East India company ships / Wendy Van Duivenvoorde -- Early modern and pre-industrial archaeological inland ship finds from Poland / Waldemar Ossowski -- pt. G. Experimental archaeology. Sea Stallion from Glendalough : testing the hypothesis / Søren Nielsen -- Travel speed in the Viking Age : results of trial voyages with reconstructed ship finds / Anton Englert -- Waterways from the Varangians to the Greeks : some results of experimental study on medieval navigation / Petr E. Sorokin -- Reconstruction and sailing performance of an ancient Egyptian ship / Cheryl Ward ; Patrick Couser ; David Vann ; Tom Vosmer ; Mohamed M. Abd el-Maguid -- Jewel of Muscat : the reconstruction of a 9th-century sewn-plank boat / Tom Vosmer -- Design and recreation of a 17th-century Taiwanese junk : preliminary report / Jeng-Horng Chen --

pt. H. Research methods. Development of an adaptive method for the rescue of 15 shipwrecks from a construction site in Oslo harbour : need for speed / Hilde Vangstad -- Recent advances in post-excavation documentation : Roskilde method / Morten Ravn -- Three-dimensional recording and hull form modelling of the Newport (Wales) medieval ship / Nigel Nayling ; Toby Jones -- Well-preserved or well-recorded : approaches to Baltic Sea shipwrecks exemplified by the Dalarö-wreck project / Niklas Eriksson ; Patrik Höglund-- Hypothetical reconstruction of the Dramont E shipwreck / Pierre Poveda -- Reconstruction of the Oseberg ship : evaluation of the hull form / Vibeke Bischoff.