Out of the Depths: A Report on Indian Oceanscapes and Its Heritages
By Dr Dominique Santos (Anthropology Department & Rhodes Africa Studies Centre)
This is an example of an exciting pilot research project that was recently funded at the ACC level in Makhanda. We report it to show a forthcoming huge project that we will be launching. Here, Dr. Dominique Santos, the principal investigator shares her initial incites.
Storm surges in 2024 along South Africa’s Eastern Cape Indian Ocean coastline have revealed long hidden remnants of shipwrecks from the era of Portuguese trade expansion in the 15th and 16th centuries. A large fragment, found by staff of the East London Museum at Chintsa near the port city of East London and still undergoing testing and verification, is believed to be from the Nossa Senhora da Atalaia, wrecked in 1647....more
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