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A renaissance in traditional boat building is occurring in Oceania but in some locations ancestral canoe designs are likely lost and so the body of knowledge supporting this renaissance is narrower than in its heyday. Traditional sailing and canoe…

The paper fits in session 2, as focusing on the survey of underwater cultural heritage at Jeju-do in Korea.
The underwater stie of Shinchang-ri, Jeju-do was reported by Haenyeo1
for golden artifacts in 1980s, and,
further survey recovered Chinese…

Located on an important East Asian shipping route, the island of Taiwan is surrounded by waters containing a large number of underwater artefacts as a result of weather conditions, changes in the current, submerged reefs, war and other human factors.…

With 18,000 km of coastline and plentiful streams and rivers, China has an extensive underwater cultural heritage (UCH), which preserves Chinese history and maritime civilization under the ocean as a kind of “time capsule”. After 20-years of…

In 2022, undergraduate students from Georgia Southern University in Savannah, Georgia, U.S.A. conducted one day
visual surveys and mapping exercises on five sites related to African American maritime history. As part of their
maritime archaeology…

This paper will discuss ongoing research into the flow of both goods and people in medieval (14th - 16th centuries) Japan’s Seto Inland Sea area. Prior to colonialism and contact with the West, there was already a complex, well developed maritime…

Over the past few decades historians and archaeologists have moved away from examining their topics from nationalist perspectives but instead have looked for regional connections, such as the Atlantic world. This approach seeks to understand the…

Tuna fishing in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) is currently a sustainable and profitable fishing industry
and part of the leading world tuna fishing industry in the western Pacific.
This paper will outline how the FSM got to this position…