The Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Underwater Cultural Heritage

The Asia-Pacific Conference on Underwater Cultural Heritage (APConf) aims to address management and protection strategies of underwater cultural heritage in Asia and the countries of the Indian and Pacific Oceans in the 21st Century, facilitate regional cooperation through the development of academic, non-governmental organisations (NGO) and governmental networks in the Asia-Pacific region, and provide a forum for discussion of technical and ethical issues related to underwater cultural heritage and underwater archaeology.

Sarah is presenting a talk entitled “Sino-Cambodian Connections: the archaeology of maritime exchange in the Koh Sdech archipelago” and co-convening two sessions, the first on the Maritime Archaeology of Trade and Exchange in East Asia (Session 6), and the second on Asia Pacific Studies in Maritime Ethno-archaeology (Session 14).