via Object Matters Podcast, 20 October 2023: In this episode of Object Matters, Dr. Craig Barker and Dr. Natali Pearson delve into Southeast Asia’s maritime heritage reflecting on the sea’s role in cultural history and trade.
For this episode of Object Matters host Dr Craig Barker is joined by Dr Natali Pearson of the University of Sydney’s Sydney Southeast Asia Centre (SSEAC). Natali is a critical heritage scholar, so together they discuss her work on the maritime heritage of Southeast Asia, including her own work and her recent publication on the Belitung shipwreck in Indonesian waters, and the importance of Australians knowing our nearest neighbours better. Moving from Southeastern Asia to the Mediterranean, together they discuss the second century BC transport amphora (Greco-Italic style) covered with shell encrustations, and muse upon the sea’s influence on human cultural history, trade and transportation of commodities and the importance of the encrustation as part of the object’s history.
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