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FIGURE 6. "Silver Wreck": sample of coins collected by the MAU. (Photo courtesy of the MAU, 1993/1994.)
FIGURE 7. "Silver Wreck": view of part of the site. (Photo courtesy of the MAU, 2009.)
FIGURE 8. The SS Conch. (Photo courtesy of the MAU, 2006.)
Maritime Archaeology and Sri Lanka: Globalization, Immigration, and Transformation in the Underwater Archaeological Record
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March 2013

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Historical Archaeology

Somasiri Devendra

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Assuming that maritime archaeology conducted in Sri Lanka is new to most readers, the present paper has been written with a dual purpose. First, it tries to give some background to the birth and growth of the discipline in this country and shows its involvement in ICOMOS-ICUCH (International Council on Monuments and Sites-International Committee on the Underwater Cultural Heritage) activities. Second, it tries to deal with the focus of the 2013 SHA conference by addressing three sites, each of which can be developed into a case study relating to the conference themes. Sri Lanka was always a place where East/West shipping interacted, whether before or after A.D. 1500, and was also always conscious of the looming presence of India. This paper, however, deals only with material aspects in the period after 1500.

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... Thus, the Colombo shipwrecks are often visited by local SCUBA tour operators and recreational divers. The first initiative for protecting shipwrecks as marine cultural heritage was taken by the National Aquatic Resources Research and Development Agency (NARA) in the 1980s, which established the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Shipwrecks (IMCW; Devendra andMuthucumarana 2013, Muthucumarana 2019). However, literature on the ecological value of shipwrecks in Sri Lanka remains limited. ...

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Fish assemblages on shipwrecks versus natural reefs in Colombo, Sri Lanka
Maritime Archaeology and Sri Lanka: Globalization, Immigration, and Transformation in the Underwater Archaeological Record

Historical Archaeology