Section 06
Cargo
What a wrecked ship was carrying.
06Three entries from one wreck: what it was carrying, the shape the copper travelled in, and what the seabed keeps that land loses.
Entries in this section
3 entries- 06.1Uluburun
A Late Bronze Age wreck off the Turkish coast carrying copper and tin ingots, glass, ivory and resin — a single ship's manifest of an entire trade system.
- 06.2Ingots and standards
Oxhide copper ingots as a shape that made cargo countable.
- 06.3What wrecks preserve
Seabed anoxia keeps organic material that a land site would have lost.
Located, then read
Every entry in this section names a place you can put a pin in. Coordinates come from the register; the entries carry the argument.