Sealinks team members will chair a session at the\u00a020th Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, in Seam Reap (Angkor), Cambodia, to be held Sunday 12 to Saturday 18 January 2014. \u00a0Dr. Alison Crowther and Dr. Nicole Boivin are jointly organising the session, entitled “Biological, cultural and material exchange along the Maritime Silk Road. \u00a0Please contact them if you would like to participate.<\/p>\n
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Biological, cultural and material exchange along the Maritime Silk Road<\/b><\/p>\n
<\/b>Nicole Boivin & Alison Crowther<\/p>\n
The Maritime Silk Road or the Maritime Spice Route, as it is variably known, was a network of mainly sea routes that linked up the ancient world from the Mediterranean to the South China Sea.\u00a0 This web of connections drew a myriad of people, objects, and species into new relationships, transforming societies and ecosystems in a variety of ways.\u00a0 This session will explore these emerging maritime connectivities and their implications at a variety of scales from the local to the \u2018global\u2019.\u00a0 Papers will explore the place of local communities and environments in wider networks, as well as the large-scale patterns and processes that shaped local dynamics.\u00a0 Breaking down traditional boundaries between study of the cultural and biological impacts of early maritime activities, the session will offer a diverse range of perspectives on the extraordinary conduits that maritime transport opened up across the ancient world.<\/p>\n
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