Globalisation of Sino-foreign Maritime Exchange: Ocean Cultures

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric O Oakley.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Globalisation of Sino-foreign Maritime Exchange: Ocean Cultures", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper argues that information was the crucial ingredient in the organization and economic exploitation of the Pacific Ocean in connection with the China Trade. This claim may appear obvious, but information is often perceived as intangible content rather than a "hidden" commodity in its own right. This paper...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sara da Cruz Ferreira. Rodrigo Banha Da Silva.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Globalisation of Sino-foreign Maritime Exchange: Ocean Cultures", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. During European Middle Ages, Chinese porcelain was already a known and appreciated commodity, being transported to Europe by land routes, but the influx to Europe experienced a particular increase when the Portuguese navigators managed to connect the Atlantic and the Indian Oceans. By sea it was possible to bring...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Clifford J Pereira. Caesar Bita.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Globalisation of Sino-foreign Maritime Exchange: Ocean Cultures", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Chinese navigator Admiral Zheng He led seven epic voyages into the Indian Ocean, reaching the shores of North-Eastern Africa. Chinese historical documentation records his visit to Malindi on the Kenyan coast in 1417-19. Since 2000 there have been several spectacular announcements in Kenya and China that have...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tânia Casimiro.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Globalisation of Sino-foreign Maritime Exchange: Ocean Cultures", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Blue on white tin-glazed earthenware was made in Europe since the medieval Muslim occupation. The early modern production passes by different styles, however, somewhere around mid-16th century the decoration of European tin-glazed earthenware started to resemble, if not clearly imitate, Chinese porcelain....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard T. Griffiths.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Globalisation of Sino-foreign Maritime Exchange: Ocean Cultures", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the year 2020 the world was hit by a devastating pandemic. Centuries later a team of marine archaeologists set out to establish the truth behind the myth that China had once recreated a maritime silk road stretching from the East China Sea, through the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean and ending on the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Abhirada Pook Komoot.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Globalisation of Sino-foreign Maritime Exchange: Ocean Cultures", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Dvāravatī (6th – 11th century CE) was described in Chinese historical texts as a distinctive cultural polity in a strategic location in present-day central Thailand. The accessibility between continental landmass and water communications resulted in the interconnection with regional and overseas exchange...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Ward.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Globalisation of Sino-foreign Maritime Exchange: Ocean Cultures", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Despite its agrarian origins, China has a steep seafaring tradition stretching back more than two millennia; its coastal ports and harbours used as transit points since ancient times. Located in the river-sea transit zone between Nanjing, the then capital, and the East China Sea, at the convergence of the Yangtze...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Roberto Junco. Silvina Vigliani.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Globalisation of Sino-foreign Maritime Exchange: Ocean Cultures", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This presentation deals with an analysis model for the archaeological study of the colonial port of Acapulco with an emphasis on the temporality of the landscape, that is, that which emerges from those who, through their activities, carry out the process of social life, being intrinsic to the conformation of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tünde F. Komori.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Globalisation of Sino-foreign Maritime Exchange: Ocean Cultures", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The proposed presentation examines the possible ways of reconstructing maritime trading connections between China and the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, on the basis of interpreting a unique Chinese porcelain plate unearthed in Ottoman Hungary. The blue and white plate features a qilin...