Download or read book Shipwreck Archaeology in China Sea written by Jianzhong Song and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-20 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.