Cross-cultural maritime technological exchange in the first-millennium Indian Ocean

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Titre

Cross-cultural maritime technological exchange in the first-millennium Indian Ocean

Créateur

Vosmer, Tom Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Date

2022

Dans

Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Résumé

Extensive trade networks in the Indian Ocean generated contact among cultures and spheres of maritime technology across a huge geographical area. Inevitably, these networks resulted not only in exchange of foodstuffs, raw materials, luxury goods, spices, and manufactured goods, but also in cultural and religious concepts and technological knowledge and practices. With the intensity of maritime trade these exchanges engendered the borrowing of shipbuilding designs, materials, and methodologies and generated a certain hybridization of technology, design, and the ways in which ships were conceived. This hybridization is particularly evident in the Belitung and Phanom-Surin ships discovered in Indonesia and Thailand respectively (Flecker 2001; 2008; Jumpron 2019; Wongnai, Jumpron & Premjai 2016). While echoing shipbuilding practices from outside South-East Asia, they also incorporated materials and concepts from South-East Asia, and yet remain distinct from the dominant lashed-lug construction of the region. Using archaeological material from Oman and South-East Asia as well as ethnographic data from the western Indian Ocean, East Africa, India, Oman, Iran, and South-East Asia, this paper explores current archaeological and ethnographic shipbuilding information and raises some questions about the place of Belitung and Phanom-Surin in first-millennium shipbuilding practice.

Langue

eng

volume

51

pages

433-448

issn

0308-8421

uri

https://archaeopresspublishing.com/ojs/index.php/PSAS/article/view/638

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Vosmer, Tom, “Cross-cultural maritime technological exchange in the first-millennium Indian Ocean”, 2022, bibliographie, consulté le 18 septembre 2024, https://ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/23568