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Author : Tony Wells
Publisher : Times Editions Pte
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015038576503
Account of the rich trading history of the Spice Route. Attracting thousands of ships, shipwrecks & the treasures that still lie undisturbed beneath the waters of Southeast Asia.
Author : Himanshu Prabha Ray
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000166514
This book breaks new ground by examining trans-oceanic connectivity through the perspective of coastal shrines and maritime cultural landscapes across the Bay of Bengal and the South China Sea. It covers a period of expanding networks and cross-cultural encounters from the 3rd century BCE to the 13th century CE. The book examines the distinctiveness of these shrines, and highlights their interconnections, and their role in social integration in South and Southeast Asia. By drawing on data from shipwreck sites, the author elaborates on the material and religious intersections and transmissions between cultures across the seas. Many of these coastal shrines survived into the colonial period when they came to be admired for their aesthetic value as ‘monuments’. As nation states of the region became independent, these shrines were often inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List on account of their Outstanding Universal Values. The book argues that in the 21st century there is a need to promote the cultural connectivity of the past as transnational heritage on UNESCO’s global platform to preserve and protect our shared heritage. The volume will be essential reading for academics and researchers of archaeology, anthropology, museum and heritage studies, history of South and Southeast Asia, religious studies, cultural studies, and Asian studies.
Author : Michael Flecker
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015055599990
In 1997 Michael Flecker investigated a shipwreck in the north Java sea. The wreck comprised the remains of a mid 10th-century ship with its cargo of thousands of ceramic and non-ceramic artefacts. This report describes the methodology and aims of the underwater operation, discusses the finds that were recovered and places these within the context of maritime archaeology in southeast Asia. Flecker evaluates the evidence from the Intan shipwreck alongside contemporary historical information about sea travel, ports, trade routes and cargoes.
Author : Baszley Bee B. Basrah Bee,Noumie Surugau,Masyella Masbaka
Publisher : Universiti Malaysia Sabah Press
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789672962564
This book presents a quantitative result from the elemental Inductively Coupled Plasma – Optical Emission Spectrometry (hereafter known as ICP-OES) analysis for three bronze gongs and 10 copper alloy artefacts from the shipwreck site off the northernmost tip of Borneo, Tanjung Simpang Mengayau Wreck the oldest shipwreck discovered in Malaysian waters. Despite various tools and techniques to obtain the elemental composition of metal artefacts, ICP-OES is considered modern and reliable analytical chemical instrument for these bronze artefacts from shipwreck and museum collection. The analyzed artefacts from the cargo, based on the decoration of ceramics pottery, patinas AD – 1279 AD. The elemental data would pertain the metal present in China and reflects the maritime trade by the Chinese to the Southeast Asian countries during the time period.
Author : Natali Pearson
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824894801
In 1998, the Belitung, a ninth-century western Indian Ocean–style vessel, was discovered in Indonesian waters. Onboard was a full cargo load, likely intended for the Middle Eastern market, of over 60,000 Chinese Tang-dynasty ceramics, gold, and other precious objects. It is one of the most significant shipwreck discoveries of recent times, revealing the global scale of ancient commercial endeavors and the centrality of the ocean within the Silk Road story. But this shipwreck also has a modern tale to tell, of how nation-states appropriate the remnants of the past for their own purposes, and of the international debates about who owns—and is responsible for—shared heritage. The commercial salvage of objects from the Belitung, and their subsequent sale to Singapore, contravened the principles of the 2001 UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage and prompted international condemnation. The resulting controversy continues to reverberate in academic and curatorial circles. Major museums refused to host international traveling exhibitions of the collection, and some archaeologists announced they would rather see the objects thrown back in the sea than ever go on display. Shipwrecks are anchored in the public imagination, their stories of treasure and tragedy told in museums, cinema, and song. At the same time, they are sites of scholarly inquiry, a means by which maritime archaeologists interrogate the past through its material remains. Every shipwreck is an accidental time capsule, replete with the sunken stories of those on board, of the personal and commercial objects that went down with the vessel, and of an unfinished journey. In this moving and thought-provoking reflection of underwater cultural heritage management, Natali Pearson reveals valuable new information about the Belitung salvage, obtained firsthand from the salvagers, and the intricacies in the many conflicts and relationships that developed. In tracing the Belitung’s lives and afterlives, this book shifts our thinking about shipwrecks beyond popular tropes of romance, pirates, and treasure, and toward an understanding of how the relationships between sites, objects, and people shape the stories we tell of the past in the present.
Author : TOM Bennett
Publisher : TOM Bennett
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Beneath the clear waters of the Philippines lie vast treasures from at least 15 Manila Galleons yet to be discovered. During World War II, Yamashita treasure was meant to be deliberately sunk in Japanese ships, with the intention of recovery after the War. Read this book to find out more. This book is issued with a word of warning. There are grave an unexpected dangers associated with treasure hunting in the Philippines. This is an easy to read history book, well researched and full of information that you will not find in any other book.
Author : Alan G. Jamieson
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789146202
A highly illustrated voyage through shipwrecks ancient and contemporary. Out of the Depths explores all aspects of shipwrecks across four thousand years, examining their historical context and significance, showing how shipwrecks can be time capsules, and shedding new light on long-departed societies and civilizations. Alan G. Jamieson not only informs readers of the technological developments over the last sixty years that have made the true appreciation of shipwrecks possible, but he also covers shipwrecks in culture and maritime archaeology, their appeal to treasure hunters, and their environmental impacts. Although shipwrecks have become less common in recent decades, their implications have become more wide-ranging: since the 1960s, foundering supertankers have caused massive environmental disasters, and in 2021, the blocking of the Suez Canal by the giant container ship Ever Given had a serious effect on global trade.
Author : Jeremy Green
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315424880
Jeremy Green's systematic overview of maritime archaeology offers a step-by-step description of this fast-growing field. With new information about the use of computers and Global Positioning Systems, the second edition of this handbook shows how to extract as much information as possible from a site, how to record and document the data, and how to act ethically and responsibly with the artifacts. Treating underwater archaeology as a discipline, the book demonstrates how archaeologists, "looters," academics, and governments interact and how the market for archaeological artifacts creates obstacles and opportunities for these groups. Well illustrated and comprehensive in its approach to the subject, this book provides an essential foundation for everybody interested in underwater environments, submerged land structures, and conditions created by sea level changes.
Author : Giovanni Arrighi,Takeshi Hamashita,Mark Selden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2004-02-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134373918
Examines the rise of East Asia as one of the world's economic power centres from three temporal perspectives: 500 years, 150 years and 50 years, each denoting an epoch in regional and world history and providing a vantage point against which to
Author : Robert F. Marx,Jenifer Marx
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Reference
ISBN : UOM:39015040331590
Tells the stories behind the discoveries of famous shipwrecks from around the world, introducing some of the people who have made the salvage of shipwrecks their life's work, describing ancient and modern underwater exploration techniques, and looking at many of the valuable artifacts that have been pulled from the deep.
Author : Heidi Tan
Publisher : Asian Civilisations Museum
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UCBK:C111866708
"Papers delivered at a conference held at the Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore, 18 June 2011"--T.p. verso.
Author : C. F. W. Higham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 921 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199355358
"Southeast Asia is one of the most significant regions in the world for tracing human prehistory over a period of 2 million years. Migrations from the African homeland saw settlement by Homo erectus and Homo floresiensis. Anatomically Modern Humans reached Southeast Asia at least 60,000 years ago to establish a hunter-gatherer tradition, adapting as climatic change saw sea levels fluctuate by over 100 metres. From about 2000 BC, settlement was affected by successive innovations that took place to the north and west. The first rice and millet farmers came by riverine and coastal routes to integrate with indigenous hunters. A millennium later, knowledge of bronze casting penetrated along similar pathways. Copper mines were identified, and metals were exchanged over hundreds of kilometres as elites commanded access to this new material. This Bronze Age ended with the rise of a maritime exchange network that circulated new ideas, religions and artefacts with adjacent areas of present-day India and China. Port cities were founded as knowledge of iron forging rapidly spread, as did exotic ornaments fashioned from glass, carnelian, gold and silver. In the Mekong Delta, these developments led to an early transition into the state known as Funan. However, the transition to early states in inland regions arose as a sharp decline in monsoon rains stimulated an agricultural revolution involving permanent ploughed rice fields. These twin developments illuminate how the great early kingdoms of Angkor, Champa and Central Thailand came to be, a vital stage in understanding the roots of modern states"--
Author : Saskia Hufnagel,Duncan Chappell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 909 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137544056
This handbook showcases studies on art theft, fraud and forgeries, cultural heritage offences and related legal and ethical challenges. It has been authored by prominent scholars, practitioners and journalists in the field and includes both overviews of particular art crime issues as well as regional and national case studies. It is one of the first scholarly books in the current art crime literature that can be utilised as an immediate authoritative reference source or teaching tool. It also includes a bibliographic guide to the current literature across interdisciplinary boundaries. Apart from legal, criminological, archeological and historical perspectives on theft, fraud and looting, this volume contains chapters on iconoclasm and graffiti, underwater cultural heritage, the trade in human remains and the trade, theft and forgery of papyri. The book thereby hopes to encourage scholars from a wider variety of disciplines to contribute their valuable knowledge to art crime research.
Author : Dennis De Witt
Publisher : NUTMEG PUBLISHING
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789834351991
Tales of the subterranean tunnels under the historic town of Malacca has existed for over a century. There were stories of tunnels that served as the governor’s secret emergency exit from the fortress and a mile long tunnel that once connected the fortress of Malacca to the fort on St. John’s hill, strategically built for the defence of the town. There were also stories of a tunnel under St. Paul’s hill and how people had gone into these tunnels but were never to been seen again because they were eaten alive by a giant mythical serpent who guards the tunnels. What secrets do the tunnels contain and why were people willing to risk their life by descending into the the dark and unknown orifices below Malacca? Is there lost treasure still buried in Malacca? Did the last Sultan of Malacca stash his huge cache of gold after the Portuguese captured Malacca and the secret vault still remains undiscovered till today? Was Malacca Ptolemy’s Golden Chersonese and the Ophir the source of King Solomon’s gold? This book uncovers the layers of history that unfolds Malacca’s most bizarre and amazing legend.
Author : Ruhanas Harun,Sabirin Ja'afar
Publisher : Maritime Institute of Malaysia (MIMA)
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9789839275674
The notion of Malaysia as a maritime nation is not new. As a coastal state surrounded by significant bodies of water, Malaysia exhibits many characteristics of a maritime nation where peace, economic stability, and security are priorities in its rise and development. This book discusses Malaysia's aspiration of a maritime nation. It features various aspects of maritime sectors and will conclusively embark on a journey that would shape and rekindle interest in the concept of Malaysia as a maritime nation through literature, discussion, and research.