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The ship that was wrecked at Yassıada, off the south-west Turkish coast near Bodrum, has, since its excavation in the early 1960s, offered key evidence of the pivotal changes that gripped the Mediterranean at the end of the Roman Empire. Even following its comprehensive 1982 publication, this rich assemblage has remained a focus of research, bridging old questions and new approaches to continually challenge how we see the roles of seafaring, economy and interaction in this period. This presentation explores our shifting understanding of both the wreck and its historical era, underscoring that scholarly interpretation of any one site is never static, but rather evolves with expanding knowledge and new methods of analysis.
About the speaker:
Justin Leidwanger is Associate Professor of Archaeology in the Classics Department and, by courtesy, in the Oceans Department at Stanford University, where he also serves as Director of the Archaeology Center and of its Maritime Archaeology & Digital Heritage Lab (MEDLab). He has directed a variety of collaborative fieldwork projects focussing on interaction, mobility and coastal life in Türkiye, Cyprus, Sicily, and most recently in Sardinia and Croatia. He is the author of Roman Seas, and editor of various other volumes on topics ranging from port networks and transport amphoras to seafaring modelling and coastal heritage management.
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