Browse Items (700 total)

In the past seven years, photogrammetry has become one of the main recording methods in maritime and underwater archaeology. The application of photogrammetry allows archaeologists to re-create underwater cultural heritage sites in 3D digital…

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 National Museum of Prehistory (NMP) in Taiwan is the only national museum in eastern Taiwan and an important anthropology museum. The NMP has been working together with the National Museum of Nature and Science in Japan during three years to…

The discovery of the balangay boats in the Butuan area of Northern Mindanao was arguably the most important find in pre-colonial maritime archaeology throughout island South East Asia. This class of vessel was well known from the accounts of early…

The United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO) adopted the Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage in 2001 which entered into force in 2009. In order to preserve, protect and manage underwater…

This paper pertains to Session 26 and aims to provide an account of regime complex concerning underwater
cultural heritage protection beyond the 2001 UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural
Heritage. The study involves some…

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 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…