Honor Frost
Honor Frost ( born October 28, 1917 in Nicosia, † 12 September 2010 in London) was a British professional storage Cherin, archaeologist and pioneer of underwater archeology.
Life
Honor Frost was born in Cyprus and grew after the early death of both parents in the lawyer Wilfred Evill in London. She studied at the Central School of Art and Design in London, and the Ruskin School of Art in Oxford.
In the late 1940s she began her training as a professional diver in Cannes. Under the direction of Frédéric Dumas, she participated in a diving expedition at a shipwreck near the coast of southern France.
1957 worked on the Honor Frost led by Kathleen Kenyon excavated from tombs at Jericho and came there to the realization that the careful methodology of archaeological excavations have to be transferred ashore on the research under water. She moved to Lebanon and explored where the ancient ports of Tyre and Sidon.
1959 Frost learned the photographer Peter Throckmorton know with which she discovered the underwater wreck off Cape Gelidonia in southwest Turkey and its importance recognized. The archaeological site was then in 1960 scientifically explored and documented by George Fletcher Bass.
In 1968, she directed a funded by UNESCO expedition in the harbor of Alexandria, 1971 on behalf of the British School at Rome, the exploration of a Punic ship wrecks in the Sicilian city of Marsala. Frost was considered an expert on ancient shipbuilding and classification of stone anchors.
Honors
In 1997, the French government honored her for her pioneering work in underwater archeology in Egypt. In 2005 she was awarded the Colin McLeod Award of the British Sub - Aqua Club for the promotion of international cooperation in diving.
Writings
- Under the Mediterranean. Marine antiquities. Routledge & Kegan Paul, London 1963, ISBN 0-710066449.
- The Marsala Punic Warship in: RGZM