Abstract
Nan’ao No. 1 shipwreck site is located in Sandianjin sea area in southeast of Nan’ao County, Shantou City, Guangdong Province. It is a merchant ship departing from Yuegang Port of the Wanli Reign in the Ming Dynasty. The shipping routes are connected to the Manila galleon trade across the Pacific Ocean. Plenty of blue and white wares made in Zhangzhou kiln and Jingdezhen kiln have been found at the shipwreck site. It is one of the earliest multi-cabin wooden ships in China. Guang’ao shipwreck is a wooden warship of the Ming Zheng Regime active in Chaozhou and Shantou coastal areas in late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. Late Ming artefacts with inscriptions have been discovered.
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Abbreviations
- AI-FJM:
-
Archaeology Institute, Fujian Museum, 福建博物院考古研究所
- CMA-XMU:
-
The Center for Maritime Archaeology, Xiamen University, 厦门大学海洋考古学研究中心
- FJM:
-
Fujian Museum, 福建博物院
- FZMCRAT:
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Fuzhou Municipal Cultural Relics and Archaeology Team, 福州市文物考古工作队
- GDM:
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Guangdong Museum, 广东省博物馆
- GDPICRA:
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Guangdong Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, 广东省文物考古研究所
- LJMM:
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Lianjiang Municipal Museum, 连江县博物馆
- NCUCH:
-
National Center of Underwater Cultural Heritage, 国家文物局水下文化遗产保护中心
- NMC:
-
National Museum of China, 中国国家博物馆
- SAHISYSU:
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Southeast Asian History Institute of Sun Yat-sen University, 中山大学东南亚历史研究所
- SAM-PKU:
-
School of Archaeology and Museology, Peking University, 北京大学考古文博学院
- JDZICA:
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Institute of Ceramic Archaeology of Jingdezhen, 景德镇市陶瓷考古研究所
- JXPCRIDLI:
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Ceramics Research Institute of Department of Light Industry, Jiangxi Province, 江西省轻工业厅陶瓷研究所
- JXPCRWT:
-
Jiangxi Provincial Cultural Relics Working Team, 江西省文物工作队
- JXPICRA:
-
Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology of Jiangxi Province, 江西省文物考古研究所
- UARCCNM:
-
Underwater Archaeological Research Center of China National Museum, 中国国家博物馆水下考古学研究中心
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Zhou, C. (2022). Ming Dynasty Shipwrecks Discovered in Nan’ao and Shantou, Guangdong. In: Song, J. (eds) Shipwreck Archaeology in China Sea. The Archaeology of Asia-Pacific Navigation, vol 5. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8675-7_10
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