2021 Session 2: History and Current Trends of Underwater Archaeology around East Asia

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2021 Session 2: History and Current Trends of Underwater Archaeology around East Asia

Subject

Session 2 papers

Description

Papers presented at Session 2 of the 2021 Asia Pacific Regional Conference on Underwater Cultural Heritage

Creator

Asia Pacific Regional Conference on Underwater Cultural Heritage

Publisher

The Museum of Underwater Archaeology

Date

November 2023

Rights Holder

Asia Pacific Regional Conference on Underwater Cultural Heritage

Date Copyrighted

2023

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Underwater Cultural Heritage Culture Routes: Green Island Lighthouse and SS President Hoover Shipwreck as Examples
All underwater cultural heritage sites are related to people in land. To promote and demonstrate the protection of valuable and important underwater cultural heritage works, is not only to establish museums, organize exhibitions, produce films, or…

The Port of Uraga: Tokugawa Japan’s Choke Point to Edo
Until the opening of Japan in the mid-nineteenth century, Uraga had been a port with both commercial and military significance on a domestic level arguably for the duration of the Edo period (1603-1868). Its international importance, however, lies in…

The Earliest Hokkien Maritime Vocabulary and Jargon Recorded in a Spanish-Chinese Dictionary of the 17th Century
It has always been a difficult task to research and transcribe ancient seafarers’ terms pronounced in different regional dialects. Since 2015, the author has been trying to mark the Southern Hokkien (Minnan) dialect seafarers’ terms pronunciation…

Maritime Cultural Landscapes and Seascapes in Prehistoric Japan: The Entangled Sea of the Yayoi Period
The developments in underwater archaeology and heritage in East Asia has gained momentum over the past decades spurred on by the wealth of related material in the archaeological record generating a plethora of new data. Simultaneously, different…

The Importance of Underwater Archaeology in the Development of a Taiwanese Identity - A case study on the Green Island 1
In 2014 the Green Island 1 became one of the first wrecks to be excavated by the Bureau of Cultural Heritage in Taiwan, two years after the establishment of the Underwater Heritage Department, and one year before the implementation of the Underwater…

The Submerged Buddhist Temple of Tanjo-ji in Chiba Prefecture, Japan
The Tanjo-ji is a temple belonging to Nichiren Buddhism at the town of Kominato in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. Nichiren was born in 1222 at a fishing village near the town, and became a Buddhist priest who developed the teachings of Nichiren Buddhism,…

Lagoon as a port: reconstructing topography and seascape of the past
In this study I demonstrate that lagoons were generally used as ports in ancient Japan. A lagoon is not suitable for anchoring large boats because of its shallow water depth; however, it was the best anchorage for shallow draft boats in ancient…

Yabitsu: A Midieval Port in Tsushima Island
The medieval port of Yabitsu is located in an inlet at the northwest end of Tsushima Island. Yabitsu is geographically closest to the Korean peninsula, separated by the Korea Strait. It is difficult to use its small isolated hinterland as a field…

Shared Underwater Cultural Heritage of Japan and the Netherlands: Continuing the Search for the Kanrin-maru in 2019
In November 2019, the Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology (TUMSAT) and the International Programme for Maritime Heritage of the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands (RCE) continue their joint research on the shared cultural…

Underwater Cultural Heritage Management on In-Situ Preservation and Training Courses for Diving Community in Taiwan
The awareness of protecting the Underwater Cultural Heritage (UCH) has grown over the past decades around
the world as well as in Taiwan. In-Situ preservation is the international principle of management and
protecting the site. Following the…
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