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The Underwater Archaeology Division of Thailand conducted an archaeological expedition in 2019 to trace the wreck
sites in the southern peninsula. As a result, the Ban Khlong Yuan boat (BKY) was found in Surat Thani Province,
southern Thailand. The…

Since 1976, the underwater excavation program, which began with the Shinan ship, has yielded some 94,500 relics and eleven shipwrecks (including two foreign ships) from 18 sites in Korea. To conserve each material appropriately the artifacts…

The mission of the U.S. Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) is "to achieve the fullest possible accounting of all Americans missing as a result of the nation's past conflicts." To support this mission objective, JPAC is developing an Underwater…

This paper is included in ‘Session 3 Decade of Action, the call for Oceans’ Past to Bridge our Communities’ to address
the encounter with experience and understanding of humans and their aquatic surroundings, i.e. the phenomenology
of oceanscape.…

The preservation of underwater cultural heritage (UCH) requires availability and access to data produced by nautical archaeology alongside tools for analysis, visualization and communication. Although numerous archaeological surveys and excavations…

The five inhabited islands (Tutuila, Aunu’u, Ofu, Olosega, and Ta’u) and two distant coral atolls (Swains Atoll and Rose Atoll) of American Samoa have a diverse maritime past. Consequently, maritime heritage properties reflect different aspects…

The Centre for International Heritage Activities (CIE) has been involved in developing Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage Programs (MUCH) in Asia and Africa since the 1990s. Although these programs aimed for a general development of capacity…

Keynote speech by Dr. Tim Curtis Chief of Culture Unit UNESCO Bangkok Office

Keynote speech by Dr. Tim Curtis Chief of Culture Unit UNESCO Bangkok Office.
To watch a video of this presentation please click here:
http://www.uri.edu/artsci/his/mua/videos/Tim_Curtis.m4v

The research aims to understand the impact of sea recession on the rise and fall of the Hoa Lu ancient capital city
of Vietnam during the 10th
-11th centuries. This is done by placing the city in its coastal context, which has been
neglected in…