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George Fletcher Bass (born December 9, 1932 in Columbia, South Carolina) is recognized as one of the early practitioners of underwater archaeology, along with Peter Throckmorton, Honor Frost, and others. Bass was the director of the first archaeological expedition to entirely excavate an ancient shipwreck: Cape Gelidonya (1960). Since directing his first excavation, he has excavated shipwrecks of the Bronze Age, Classical Age, and the Byzantine. Bass is professor emeritus at Texas A&M University, where he held the George T. and Gladys H. Abell Chair in Nautical Archaeology. He holds an M.A. in Near Eastern Archaeology from The Johns Hopkins University and a Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology from the University of Pennsylvania. In 1973 Bass founded the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA).〔George Fletcher Bass, Ph.D. http://nauticalarch.org/about/key_figures/bass/〕 INA has conducted some of the most important excavations of the twentieth century, and its findings throw new light into areas as diverse as the beginning of the free enterprise system, the dating of Homer's Odyssey, chronologies of Egyptian dynasties and Helladic cultures, and the histories of technology, economics, music, art and religion. == Awards == * Archaeological Institute of America's Gold Medal for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement (1986) * Explorers Club Lowell Thomas Award * National Geographic Society La Gorce Gold Medal * National Geographic Society Centennial Award * J.C. Harrington Medal from The ( Society for Historical Archaeology ) * Honorary doctorate from Boğaziçi University in Istanbul * Honorary doctorate from the University of Liverpool * National Medal of Science (2001).〔(National Science Foundation )〕 It was presented by President George W. Bush in a White House East Room ceremony on June 12, 2002. * Lucy Wharton Drexel Medal for Achievement in Archaeology (2010) from the University of Pennsylvania 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「George Bass (archaeologist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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