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This research is based on the raw data of a Master’s thesis that aims to identify Islamic motifs on Chinese blue-and-white porcelains recovered from the 15th century archaeological sites in the Philippines. A stylistic analysis of Chinese…

Australian wooden shipwrecks represent significant submerged heritage sites with huge potential to inform on historic connections, technological innovation and early colonial behavioural systems. Their archaeological potential is unfortunately often…

The Australian Government Department of the Environment and Energy administers the Commonwealth Historic Shipwrecks Act 1976 and the National Historic Shipwrecks Program. This Program enables the Department to work with the States, the Northern…

The no-impact maritime archaeological conservation-focused citizen science program Gathering Information via
Recreational and Technical (GIRT) Scientific Divers formally started in January 2019, after an approximately
six-month pilot project in…

New Zealand is an island nation that was initially settled via the sea firstly by Polynesian voyagers and later by a European maritime culture. These two groups traded and traversed in and along the coastline leaving considerable physical evidence of…

The developments in underwater archaeology and heritage in East Asia has gained momentum over the past decades spurred on by the wealth of related material in the archaeological record generating a plethora of new data. Simultaneously, different…

In January 1958, Andrew Bigelow and three other anti-nuclear activists attempted to sail the 30 foot ketch, The Golden Rule, from California into the U.S. nuclear testing zone in the Marshall Islands to try to stop nuclear testing. While on a…

This paper proposes that development of a fit-for purpose management to protect underwater cultural heritage
from negative impacts caused by fishing gear requires three elements; evidence-based characterisation of
impacts; understanding of the…

Preliminary surveys on the biological diversity of shipwrecks were started in 2018 with SS Sagaing, an iron
wreck purposely sunk by the Sri Lanka Navy. The survey aimed to record the recruitment and colonization of
marine organisms on the ship's…

The creation of the National Shipwreck Database of Sri Lanka (NSDSL) was initiated by the Maritime Archaeology Unit (MAU) to address the fragmented state of data collected from various shipwreck sites around the country. Established in 2001 in Galle…