Underwater cultural heritage: why we’re studying ‘orphaned objects’ to work out which shipwrecks they came from

By Natali Pearson, Senior Lecturer, Sydney Southeast Asia Centre, University of Sydney
Martin Polkinghorne, Associate Professor in Archaeology, Flinders University
Nia Naelul Hasanah Ridwan, Maritime-Underwater Archaeologist and PhD Candidate on Archaeology (Humanities), Flinders University
Zainab Tahir, Marine Heritage Analyst and PhD Candidate, Flinders University

A lot of the recent talk about maritime issues in Southeast Asia has focused on issues such as security, the Blue Economy, law enforcement and climate change. But there’s one maritime challenge that’s gone underdiscussed: underwater heritage.

We are co-investigators on a research project called Reuniting…

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