Ships, Shipwrecks, and Archaeological Recoveries as Sources of Southeast Asian History

2018/09/26 by Derek Heng · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Maritime and Coastal Archaeology #Global Maritime and Colonial Histories #Southeast asia #Shipbuilding #Archaeology #Geography #Key (lock) #Maritime archaeology #History #Ethnology #Computer science

paper · doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780190277727.013.97

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Abstract

Abstract Ships form a critical component of the study of Southeast Asia’s interaction both within itself as well as with the major centers of Asia and the West. Shipwreck data, accrued from archaeologically excavated shipwreck sites, provide information on the evolving maritime traditions that traversed Southeast Asian waters over the last two millennia, including shipbuilding and navigational technologies and knowledge, usage of construction materials and techniques, types of commodities carried by the shipping networks, shipping passages developed through Southeast Asia, and the key ports of call that vessels would arrive at as part of the network of economic and social exchanges that came to characterize maritime interactions.

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