All ebooks in the collection "The Archaeology of Asia-Pacific Navigation" - Springer

The Pre-Austronesian ‘Liangdao Man'

Chung-Yu Chen

This book adopts a comprehensive approach, drawing from archaeology, physical anthropology, human genetics, linguistics, cultural anthropology, ethnology and ethnography, to explore the Austronesian link of ‘Liangdao Man,’ and the origins of Austronesian language...

Shipwreck Archaeology in China Sea

Yamin Wu , Guangcan Xin

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...

Maritime Prehistory of Northeast Asia

Jim Cassidy , Ben Fitzhugh , Irina Ponkratova

The Prehistoric Maritime Frontier of Southeast China

Chunming Wu

This open access book presents multidisciplinary research on the cultural history, ethnic connectivity, and oceanic transportation of the ancient Indigenous Bai Yue (??) in the prehistoric maritime region of southeast China and southeast Asia. In this maritime...

New Frontiers in the Neolithic Archaeology of Taiwan (5600–1800 BP)

Su-Chiu Kuo

This book summarizes the systematic research on the Neolithic cultures of Taiwan, based on the latest archaeological discoveries, and focusing on the maritime interactions between mainland southeast China, Taiwan, and southeast Asia during (5600-1800 BP). The study...

Prehistoric Maritime Cultures and Seafaring in East Asia

Barry Vladimir Rolett , Chunming Wu

This book focuses on prehistoric East Asian maritime cultures that pre-dated the Maritime Silk Road, the "Four Seas" and "Four Oceans" navigation system recorded in historical documents of ancient China. Origins of the Maritime Silk Road can be traced to prosperous...

Archaeology of Manila Galleon Seaports and Early Maritime Globalization

Roberto Junco Sanchez , Miao Liu , Chunming Wu

This book focuses on the archaeological and historical research on the seaport heritage of galleon navigation in Asia-Pacific region. It reconstructs the Manila Galleons’ era of early maritime globalization, established and operated by Spanish navigators from the 16th...