Cemal Pulak, “Shipwreck! Recovering 3,000-Year-Old Cargo,” began his career with the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA) as a volunteer while studying engineering at the Bosporus University in Istanbul, Turkey. He has directed the INA’s annual shipwreck surveys on the Turkish coast since 1983 and co-directed (with George Bass) the Uluburun underwater excavations from 1984 to 1996. Among his publications is “RES MARITIMAE,” in S. Swiny et al., eds., Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean from Prehistory to Late Antiquity (1997). When above water, Pulak teaches courses on ancient seafaring and Bronze Age maritime trade at Texas A&M University. The Lila […]
