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Reuniting Cargoes: Underwater Cultural Heritage from the Maritime Silk and Spice Route

  • Martin Polkinghorne
  • , Nia Naelul Hasanah Ridwan
  • , Zainab Tahir
  • , Tom Chandler
  • , Mike Yeates
  • , Muniera Dubery
  • , Catherine Morton
  • , Susan Arthure
  • , Lilian Briceño
  • , William Cowling
  • , Jesse De Nichilo
  • , Simon Hoad
  • , Jarrad Kowlessar
  • , Amber O'Grady
  • , Simona Sumerling
  • , Georgia Tuckwell
  • , Charissa Davies (Curator)
  • , Helen Trepa (Curator)

Research output: Non-textual formExhibition

Abstract

For centuries, Southeast Asia, with Indonesia at its core, was the epicentre of the most extraordinary expansion of global trade ever witnessed. Yet this remarkable tale of exchange along the Maritime Silk and Spice Route remains surprisingly untold.

Indonesian waters were an artery of international trade, acting as both a transit point and a destination, facilitating the exchange of ideas, religions, languages, and goods. Today, they hold the history of global maritime trade in their treacherous depths where thousands of vessels from China, India, Japan, the Gulf States, Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, England, and Southeast Asia were lost at sea along with their crew and cargoes.
Original languageEnglish
Place of Publication South Australia
PublisherFlinders University
Publication statusPublished - 24 Oct 2024

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
    SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
  2. SDG 14 - Life Below Water
    SDG 14 Life Below Water
  3. SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals
    SDG 17 Partnerships for the Goals

Keywords

  • Exhibitions
  • underwater cultural heritage
  • Maritime Silk Route
  • Spice Route
  • Southeast Asia
  • Indonesia
  • International trade

NTRO Type of Output

  • Minor

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