Browse Collections (39 total)

Maritime archaeology, a new branch of social sciences, took its birth in the Mediterranean Sea in the 19th century and academically it began after…

The richness of underwater cultural heritage (UCH) in the Southeast Asian region has been very well known throughout the world. Various shipping…

Underwater Cultural Heritage (UCH) from World War II is extensive throughout the Asia/Pacific Region. It encompasses numerous warships from many…

Responding to the effort to protect both natural and cultural resources within the marine environment for the benefit of present and future…

East Asia is rich in maritime and underwater cultural heritage. Not only conventional shipwrecks or submerged archaeological sites but also stone…

Trade ceramics have usually been found together with other evidence in many ancient shipwrecks, harbours, ports, trade centers, hinterlands and…

This session will focus on in-situ preservation and conservation management issues, conservation analyses and treatments, and applied conservation…

The arrival of Spain and Portugal in Asia-Pacific in the 1500s marked a turning point in the history of the region. New foreign actors came into play:…

Research on early modern colonialism in the Asia-Pacific region makes a fundamental contribution to the study of Global History. In the last decades,…

The Pacific Ocean contains a wealth of underwater cultural heritage. Underwater sites in Oceania span human history from the Stone Age to the Atomic…

Underwater cultural heritage holds a vast potential for sustainable development. It is a very interesting and attractive form of heritage, appreciated…

In 2009, responding to the effort to protect the significant natural and cultural resources within the marine environment for the benefit of present…

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is a specialized agency of the UN. It has 195 Member States. The UNESCO…

The 2nd Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Underwater Cultural Heritage (www.apconf.org) was held from 12-16 May 2014 in Honolulu, Hawai‘i. The…

This collection contains images of the Chinese junk Free China prior to its restoration.

This bibliography contains a selection of primary and secondary source materials introducing maritime history and archaeology of China, Japan, Korea,…

The Gray Literature Bibliographic Database is a combined listing of unpublished site reports, manuscripts, and assorted documents that are not…

The collected proceedings of the first inaugural Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Underwater Cultural Heritage conference.

The Shipwrecks Over Time – Yongala project is an experiment in crowd-sourced image collecting. In an effort to capture the changes over time on an…