Shipwrecked? New developments in Southeast Asian maritime archaeology and the safeguard of shipwrecks in the region

have handed over the following pages to Jun Kimura, newly appointed Advisory Editor to the journal, who gives his views on efforts in the Southeast Asia region to confront the multiple problems concomitant with a rich maritime heritage.The ethical issues of legally licensed salvage of archaeological sites are the major concern.Any country allowing such treatment of our shared underwater heritage might note the lessons of this failed experiment.In October 2014, Ivan Negueruela introduced the IKUWA V conference 'Heritage for Humanity' by stating that the era of 'treasure hunters' despoiling archaeological sites is over.His optimism came in the wake of the Mercedes ruling in the US courts in 2012, and subsequent return to Spain of finds taken by OMEX from the sea-bed, some of which are now

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