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Seaways, especially monsoonal ones, allow movement on two directions. However Eurocentric approaches have tended to create hierarchies of cultures which have biased movements in particular directions to the historical exclusion of some narratives.…

A strategy for promoting the adoption of the Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage, is the adoption of a Model Law; one that also promotes uniformity, consistency and ease of use. This, however, is a challenge in the…

The legal framework for the protection of the underwater cultural heritage has gained momentum throughout the Asia-Pacific with a number of States turning their attention to this issue. For some this is due to concerns raised though specific…

Ratifications of the 2001 UCH Convention by Pacific States has been poor. Using Solomon Islands and the Marshall Islands
as case studies, this paper begins by considering the utility of the 2001 UCH Convention for these States before turning to…

The loading of objects on a vessel, their loss, then physical discovery, recovery and subsequent movement, all
take place in a legal context. That context is not static and cannot be viewed entirely in hindsight from the now.
In unravelling the…

The use of subcritical fluids for the treatment of archaeological and marine archaeological iron artifacts has been under experimentation at the Clemson University’s Warren Lasch Conservation Center (WLCC) since 2003 and has shown promise of…

Stone tidal weirs suggest evolutionary stages of how the human-natural world interacts. From it, “commons” is
reflected in the social and cultural milieus among indigenous/local communities. In the Philippines, an atob is a
stone tidal weir built…