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The maritime archaeological, historical and ethnographic investigation of maritime technology in the pre-modern period, particular reference to Asian built ships

Author/s J.N. Green and P. Clark

Year of publication 1993

Report Number: 68

Introduction
In January 1992, Jeremy Green (Department of Maritime Archaeology, Western Australian Maritime Museum, Fremantle) and Paul Clark (Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Science, Darwin) were awarded an ARC grant for a project entitled The maritime archaeological, historical and ethnographic investigation of maritime technology in the pre-modern period, particular reference to Asian built ships. The project, included Professor Ken McPherson (Indian Ocean Centre For Peace Studies), Dr Robert Parthesius (Nederland bouwt VOC Retourschip Stichting, Lelystad, Netherlands) and Dr Peter Burns (Department of History, University of Adelaide) as associate investigators. The project employed two part-time research assistants: Tom Vosmer and Karen Millar.

A series of field projects have now been undertaken and this report describes the progress of the work, the aims and achievements and the proposals for the future.