Recently, a new area of research began within NAO. María Cruz Berrocal and Adrián García Rojo have started a database of European forts in Asia-Pacific:
Map showing forts in the Asia-Pacific region organised according to the founding nation. More in Cruz Berrocal, M., García Rojo, A. (ip).
The project started as a conference presentation:
2023 Cruz Berrocal, M. A review of European forts in Asia-Pacific. 56th Annual Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology. Society for Historical Archaeology. Lisbon, 4-7 January 2023.
It has derived in an investigation of forts in Maritime Southeast Asia -the region between continental China, mainland Southeast Asia- and Oceania, also including Taiwan and Sri Lanka. This part of the world features a remarkable density of European forts, built from the 16th through 19th centuries. Information about these forts is fragmentary and scattered in historical syntheses that tend to present specific European national viewpoints. There is no holistic overview of European colonialism nor of these constructions. We aim to systematize chronological, locational, material, and cultural data on European forts in the region, and offer insights into the development of the colonial system, as well as about local political dynamics (Cruz Berrocal and García Rojo, ip).
More in the near future….
References
Cruz Berrocal, M., García Rojo, A. (ip) European Colonial Forts in Maritime Southeast Asia. In M. Nassaney and S. Escribano (ed.) Colonial Forts in Archaeological Perspective. University of Florida Press, Gainesville.
The database is hosted by Digital.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council): http://hdl.handle.net/10261/353597
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