Peter Throckmorton

Peter Throckmorton (* 1928, † June 5, 1990 in Newcastle, Maine) was an American author, journalist, diver and underwater archaeologist.

Life

Throckmorton was a founding member of the organization Sea Research Society. As an author he has published several books on underwater archeology. He taught at the Nova Southeastern University in Florida. In Greek bay of dokos the archaeologist Throckmorton discovered a boatload at a depth of 20 m in 1975, which was due to the ceramic finds dated to the period 2400-2200 BC.

Works (selection)

  • The Sea Remembers: Shipwrecks and Archaeology from Homer's Greece to the Rediscovery of the Titanic, ed. Peter Throckmorton (New York: Smith Mark Publishers, 1987) ISBN / ISSN: 1555840930 Library of Congress: 87-14273
  • Oldest Known Shipwreck Yields Bronze Age cargo. by Peter Throckmorton, National Geographic 121.5 (May 1962): 696-71
  • The economics of treasure hunting with real life comparisons, by Peter Throckmorton, 1990
  • Surveying in Archaeology, by Peter Throckmorton (Aris & Phillips Ltd - January 1, 1969 ) ISBN 0-85668 - 063- X ISBN 978-0-85668-063-2
  • Diving for Treasure, by Peter Throckmorton, The Viking Press, New York City, and Penguin Books Canada Limited (1977 ) ISBN / ISSN: 0670274496 Library of Congress: 77-6689
  • History from the Sea, edited by Peter Throckmorton, ISBN / ISSN: 0864380445
  • Shipwrecks and Archaeology - The unharvested Sea, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, and Little, Brown & Company ( Canada ) Limited, Toronto ( 1970), Library of Congress: 76-79373
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