Archaeology of Manila Galleon Seaports and Early Maritime Globalization

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This book focuses on the archaeological and historical research on the seaport heritage of galleon navigation in Asia-Pacific region. It reconstructs the Manila Galleons’ era of early maritime globalization, established and operated by Spanish navigators from the 16th to 19th centuries. The galleons sailed across the Pacific via the hub seaports and trade centers of Manila in the Philippines and Acapulco in Mexico, forming a prosperous sea route connecting eastern Asia and New Spain on the American continent for more than 250 years. This pioneering navigation of the pan-Pacific regions promoted early global maritime trade along the new Maritime Silk Road between the East and the West. Written by archaeologists and cultural historians from America, Mexico, Japan, the Philippines, Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, it presents the latest investigations and research on the galleon-affiliated seaports, including Acapulco and San Blas in Mexico, Guam, Manila in Philippines, Yuegang (Crescent Harbor), Xiamen (Amoy), Keelung and Macao in China, Nagasaki in Japan. This joint research sheds new light on the history of navigation and maritime trade between galleon-affiliated harbors; the origin, production, transport and trade of the galleon cargo; social cultural exchange along the new Maritime Silk Road in the pan-Pacific region; and the history of maritime globalization in last 500 years. It offers a new perspective on maritime archaeology and traces the different stages of the galleon trade and affiliated maritime history, including "Yuegang Outbound", "Manila Entrepotting" and "Bound for Acapulco", presenting a panoramagram of Spanish pan-Pacific trade and early maritime globalization. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxxv Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Bound for America: A Historical and Archaeological Investigation in Yuegang (Crescent) Seaport as the Main Origin of Galleon Cargo (Chunming Wu)....Pages 3-27 The Cultural Change of Kilns and Contents of Export Ceramics on the Perspective of Development of Zhangzhou Seaports During Ming and Qing Dynasties (Miao Liu)....Pages 29-48 The Investigation and Preliminary Analysis of Nan’ao No. I Shipwreck in Guangdong (Chunshui Zhou)....Pages 49-65 A Historical Review on the Social-Cultural Impact of Yuegang-Manila Navigation on the Ancient Chinese Civilization (Chunming Wu)....Pages 67-89 Front Matter ....Pages 91-91 Chinese Porcelain in the Manila Galleon Trade (Guanyu Wang)....Pages 93-113 Fujian and Hizen Ware: A 17th Century Evidence of the Manila Galleon Trade Found from Selected Archaeological Sites in the Philippines (Nida T. Cuevas)....Pages 115-128 Archaeological Researches on the Manila Galleon Wrecks in the Philippines (Sheldon Clyde B. Jago-on, Bobby C. Orillaneda)....Pages 129-145 The Kraak Porcelains Discovered from Taiwan and Macao, and Their Relationship with the Manila Galleon Trade (Tai-Kang Lu)....Pages 147-160 Ceramics from Nagasaki: A Link to Manila Galleon Trade (Etsuko Miyata)....Pages 161-172 Searching for the San Francisco (1609), a Manila Galleon Sunk off the Japanese Coast (Jun Kimura)....Pages 173-184 Front Matter ....Pages 185-185 The Development of Humåtak Village: The Life-Line of the Acapulco-Manila Galleon Trade (Joe Quinata)....Pages 187-190 Clues to Internationalism in the Manila Galleon Wreck of the Late 1570s in Baja California (Edward Von der Porten)....Pages 191-213 Archaeological Distribution of Chinese Porcelain in Mexico (Patricia Fournier, Roberto Junco Sanchez)....Pages 215-237 The Chinese Porcelain from the Port of San Blas, Mexico (Roberto Junco Sanchez, Guadalupe Pinzón, Etsuko Miyata)....Pages 239-251 A Study of the Chinese Influence on Mexican Ceramics (Karime Castillo, Patricia Fournier)....Pages 253-268