水中考古学／船舶・海事史研究

Dr. Tanabe

Shozo Tanabe, who has been the leading professor in Archaeology in Japan that started the first government funded and well organized underwater archaeology project overseas, has died at the age of 72. He is credited as the first underwater archaeologist in Japan for he has directed excavation off the coast of Syria. Although his involvement in underwater/nautical archaeology is not well known among Japanese public, he has been in a public eye as one of the leading archaologists in Japan. His contribution to the study of underwater archaeology will be remembered by many of his colleagues in Asia. Perhaps, his death may bring a new interest to this field in Japan.