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The topic of this abstract fits best within Session15 because it is a case study of 9,000-year-old archaeological sites
on a submerged landscape under a lake. The case studies under consideration are the following 1) conducting
prehistoric…

The deltas of Tamil Nadu in southern part of India have several ports that acted as nodes of maritime networks.
Evidence of prehistoric hunter-gatherers is found in the Tamiraparani delta in the red sand dunes of Teri in the form
of microliths. In…

This paper deals with the utility, valorization, and sustainable development of underwater cultural
heritage in the Indian Ocean region. We outline how the process of valorizing underwater cultural
heritage has been undertaken in this specific…

Due to frequent naval battles and inclement weather conditions, Mauritius has been the site of an extensive number
of shipwrecks. Research-based on historical and archival sources carried out over more than thirty years seeks to
record this…

The eastern coast of Sri Lanka is considered to be the coastal region from the Kokilai lagoon in the north to Panama
in the south. The coastal region has been used for various activities with various marine relations since the BC
period. The…

Coastal communities of the east African coast have, for millennia, traded with the Far East, the Mediterranean
Region, India and the Red Sea going back to at least the first millennium BCE or before. These trade links across the
Indian Ocean…

The topic of this abstract fits best within this Session 7 Trade goods in shipwrecks – sources, routes and markets,
including glass on the Maritime Silk Road because this paper is about the analysis of the archaeological evidenc
es, especially the…

In Vietnam, underwater cultural heritage is a new field developed in the late twenty century until now. Interest in
this field began with the discovery of shipwrecks in Vietnamese waters in the 1990s. Through international
cooperation as well as…

In this paper, the archaeological materials salvaged from the Shinan shipwreck, a fourteenth century Chinese
mercantile ship that sank near Shinan islands of South Korea, will be analyzed through correlating the materials
found on the Shinan ship…

Iron is present in the traded goods of Song-Yuan period in China. In the shipwreck survey in China and Southeast
Asia, iron bars and iron pots have been discovered as cargo on trade vessels. There are also iron bars in the
Middle Ages of Japan,…