Early Navigation in the Asia-Pacific Region A Maritime Archaeologica
This book presents the proceedings of the international academic workshop on “Early Navigation in the Asia-Pacific Region: A Maritime Archaeological Perspective” held from June 21-23, 2013 at Harvard University campus and organized by Harvard-Yenching Ins
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Early Navigation in the Asia-Pacific Region A Maritime Archaeological Perspective
Early Navigation in the Asia-Pacific Region
Chunming Wu Editor
Early Navigation in the Asia-Pacific Region A Maritime Archaeological Perspective
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Editor Chunming Wu The Center for Maritime Archaeology Xiamen University Xiamen, Fujian China
ISBN 978-981-10-0903-7 DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-0904-4
ISBN 978-981-10-0904-4
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Foreword
Maritime archaeology is undergoing tremendous growth in East Asia and around the world. This growth stems from a number of factors—from increasingly sophisticated technology that enables more effective examination of difficult-to-reach submerged sites and more precise mapping and visualization of underwater contexts, to development projects that have exposed buried coastal remains hitherto unknown, such as the thirty-seven shipwrecks discovered in a buried harbor in Istanbul exposed during the construction of a new subway station and the exposure of buried ship remains in the foundation of the new World Trade center building in New York City, to the political significance of maritime archaeology in the South China Sea and other parts of coastal Asia that has inspired an increasing interest (and consequently greater political and financial support for) new research. In this book, a distinguished group of respected scholars of maritime archaeology have come together to present examples and synthetic discussions of the new archaeological research on early navigation in the Pacific region. The papers include exhaustive summaries of known shipwrecks from the ninth century onwards to the period of globalized maritime trade dominated by European merchant networks, and ov
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