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February 11, 2004 Underwater archaeologist to speak at liberal arts conferenceWEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – One of the nation's leading underwater archaeologists, who has been featured in National Geographic magazine, is speaking at Purdue University for the Indiana Classical Association's annual meeting. Robert Hohlfelder, professor of history at University of Colorado at Boulder, will present "Herod's Harbor at Caesarea Maritima: A Modern Engineering Marvel in Antiquity" at 8 p.m. on Feb. 20 in the Electrical Engineering Building, Room 129. His lecture is free and open to the public. Hohlfelder, who has worked in Israel, Cyprus, Greece, Turkey and Italy, has recently devised a method to carbon-date hydraulic cement used in the construction of ancient harbor facilities, said Nick Rauh, associate professor of history at Purdue. "Professor Hohlfelder is going to discuss the huge concrete moles that Herod the Great's engineers constructed between 21 and 10 B.C. to form an enclosed shelter for maritime shipping," Rauh said. "He was part of a large international team of underwater archaeologists who excavated, mapped and recorded the surviving mole and were able to determine how it was constructed. The entire structure is submerged today, but its outline can be clearly seen from the air." The event is co-sponsored by the departments of history, foreign languages and literatures, the interdisciplinary programs in classical studies and Jewish studies, the Indiana Classical Conference, the Central Indiana Chapter of the American Institute of Archaeology and the Purdue Classical Association. For more information about the Indiana Classical Association annual meeting, contact Rauh at (765) 494-4140, rauhn@purdue.edu. Writer: Amy Patterson-Neubert, (765) 494-9723, appaterson@purdue.edu Source: Nick Rauh, (765) 494-4140, rauhn@purdue.edu Purdue News Service: (765) 494-2096; purduenews@purdue.edu
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