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The Chau Tan shipwreck is the oldest ocean-going cargo ship yet found in Vietnam dating from around the 8th9th century CE. It provides a unique opportunity to study the construction methods of a lashed- lug ship from that
period. Over 40 of the…

So-called “winged” bows were among the first boat characteristics that were used to identify the expansion of
shipping technologies of the Austronesian speaking people across both the Pacific and the Indian Ocean. Pioneers
Haddon and Hornell were…

This short paper is suitable for session 6. It is written to report the result of the recent survey of the lashed-lug
boatbuilding technology in the Southeast Asian region. In addition to desk-based assessments, investigations were
undertaken at…

Amongst the most remarkable commodities of Thailand on the maritime trade routes during the fourteenth to the
seventeenth centuries was Thai ceramics “Sangkhalok” (the ceramics characterised by green glazed, brown
glazed, and underglaze black…

On the south-western coast of Korea lie 12 shipwrecks of the Goryeo Dynasty (tenth to fourteenth centuries). So
far, among recovered artifacts from shipwrecks, less attention was given to pottery, than wooden tablets. Our
research on pottery shows…

The overland ‘Silk Road’ has served as the main conduit for the exchange of goods and culture between China,
Southeast Asia, and the West since the Han Dynasty. Its primary role has been diminished due to the establishment of
sea routes by the Tang…

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…

This paper fits best within Session 3 because the topic, which is the anthropological study of wooden boatbuilding
today, will provide a specific ethnographic case to understand the interactions between the seas and humans in a
contemporary local…

The paper proposes to build upon existing approaches in the study of Singapore's past narrative by incorporating
the study of the maritime cultural landscape (MCL) to observe the micro connections and provide a closer
examination of the maritime…

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.…