Overview
- Reveals the latest discoveries in the context of shipwreck archeology in China
- Reconstructs the development of overseas trade and maritime cultures along the Maritime Silk Road of ancient China
- Reviews methodological and technological advances in China’s underwater archeology
Part of the book series: The Archaeology of Asia-Pacific Navigation (AAPN, volume 5)
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This book initiatively and systematically presents the latest discoveries in the context of shipwreck archaeology in China, telling the exciting story of the wrecks’ distribution, connotation and the research advances and empirically reconstructing the development of overseas trade and maritime cultures along the Maritime Silk Road, which flourished for more than 2000 years. The book features numerous high-quality images and comprehensively describes and reviews the development of the methodologies and technologies used in China’s underwater archaeology and underwater cultural heritage administration in recent decades.
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Book Title: Shipwreck Archaeology in China Sea
Editors: Jianzhong Song
Translated by: Yamin Wu, Guangcan Xin
Series Title: The Archaeology of Asia-Pacific Navigation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8675-7
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: National Centre for Archaeology 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-8674-0Published: 21 October 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-8677-1Published: 22 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-8675-7Published: 20 October 2022
Series ISSN: 2524-7468
Series E-ISSN: 2524-7476
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 277
Number of Illustrations: 60 b/w illustrations, 151 illustrations in colour
Topics: Archaeology, Cultural History, Archaeology, Cultural History