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Maritime Archaeology Periodical

AINA moved from Pennsylvania University to receive from the INA. The INA Archaeology Com-
Texas A&M University (TAMU) in 1976, and its mittee budgets 70 thousand dollars every year for
name was changed to “INA” in 1979 because of its archaeological projects under the leadership of Dr.
international identity. After that, the Nautical Archae- Deborah Carlson. Within this budget is also an award
ology Program (NAP) was established academically of 25 thousand dollars for a single project, the Claude
under the Texas A&M University curriculum with Duthuit award. Most of the underwater excavations
the leadership of George Bass, and postgraduate ed- by INA are published by TAMU Press under the name
ucation programs were started . Today, there are six ed Rachal Nautical Series. Additionally, interim re-
2
academic members under the NAP’s curriculum, and ports are published both in the INA’s INA quarterly
3
more than 40 M.S. and Ph.D. students completing un- magazine and monthly in the INA Insider e-newslet-
derwater archaeology program at the Department of ter.
Anthropology. The main driving force of INA’s work is to make
NAP academic members teach ship design and con- humanity better understand the world’s maritime his-
struction, history of seafaring, naval treatises, mari- tory, especially in the East Mediterranean and Aegean
time communities, and specialized courses on con- regions. Since 1960, INA and its partners, perform-
servation of underwater artifacts as well as teaching ing a total of 68 shipwreck excavations and research
general courses on anthropology and archaeology. projects in different parts of the world so far, have
NAP students complete their fieldwork experience conducted 20 shipwreck excavations in Turkey with
from shipwreck excavations, underwater research the permission of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism
and modelling projects organized by the INA. These and the signature of the Council of Ministers.
studies are generally performed by NAP academic INA has worked on the excavations of many ship-
members or INA’s partner researchers, whose num- wrecks belonging to various periods from the Ancient
bers sometimes exceed 50. Thanks to the active con- Age to the 16th century, and continues to undertake
nection between the INA and the NAP, most of the conservation/restoration work of underwater artifacts
INA’s partner researchers are NAP graduates. with great scrutiny. All works regarding the exca-
Some NAP students design and direct their own vations in Turkey are performed at the Bodrum Re-
projects with the financial and logistical support they search Center (BRC).

2 INA is not an educational organization. It operates as an international scientific research institute. The training on nautical archaeology
is provided by TAMU NAP.
3 INA quarterly can be accessed at www.nauticalarch.org

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