| Ralph
K. Pedersen, MA, Ph.D.
INA Research Associate Project Director |
Photo: Gary A. Nilsen |
| Ralph Pedersen has
participated in the excavation of the Bronze Age
shipwreck at Uluburun, a survey of a ferry wreck on the
Trinity River in Texas (1984), directed surveys of HMS Culloden
(1997)and USS Ohio (2000) at Long Island, New
York, conducted the recording of an unidentified
shipwreck on New York's Fire Island (1995), and served as excavation director under Jerome Lynn Hall for the
1991 season excavation of the Pipewreck at Monte Cristi,
DR.
As an INA Research Associate and Project Director, he has conducted an underwater survey and a GPS-guided terrestrial survey in Bahrain, and directed the survey and excavation of a mid-first millennium shipwreck at Black Assarca Island, Eritrea. He has been an adjunct professor at New York University and is an instructor with the Nautical Archaeology Society. He is also a member of the Explorers Club. Pedersen has served as the INA webmaster and archivist since 2001. His dissertation, entitled "The Boatbuilding Sequence in the Gilgamesh Epic and the Sewn Boat Relation," concerns the boat of the flood in the Standard Version of the Epic of Gilgamesh and its relation to the sewn boat tradition of the Western Indian Ocean.. Interests: Near Eastern and Biblical Archaeology, Ship Reconstruction, Maritime Archaeology of New York BA Anthropology/Linguistics, State University of New York at
Stony Brook ŠINA, 2003 |
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