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Mapping the Story of Early Trade
April 27, 2002
Workshop Page (Resources and Lessons)

Institute Participants:

• Kay Corcoran's digital resource: Monsoon Winds to the Land of Gold http://orias.berkeley.edu/Spice/textobjects/overview.htm
• Bibliography on Kay's site http://orias.berkeley.edu/spice/textobjects/bibliography.htm
• Carol Murphey's curriculum ideas for using Periplus Maris Erythraie in the classroom.
• Chris Kostman's Adventurecorps site | Sadana Island Shipwreck Project http://www.adventurecorps.com/sadana.html

• During the Spice Institute we heard about the interesting details of academic field work such as Chris Kostman's shipwreck project. Another interesting field work project is Dr. Tishkoff's DNA Project in Africa. Dr. Tishkoff has posted a student site at University of Maryland: http://www.inform.umd.edu/CampusInfo/Departments/InstAdv/newsdesk/dna/project.html
• Antique Maps of the World. Digital Wisdom, Inc., Tappahannock, VA. 2001 http://www.antique-map.net/
• Cruising the Spice Islands http://www.balivillas.com/cruises/index.html
• Explorers of the East: Spices and the Spice Routes. http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Shores/9000/spices/indexSpices.html
• The Lure of Spices, The American Spice Trade Association. http://www.astaspice.org/history/frame_history.htm
• Map Machine. National Geographic Society. http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/
• Travels of Fa Hsien, Buddhist Pilgrim of Fifth Century. Silk Road Foundation, 1997. http://www.silk-road.com/artl/fahsien.shtml
• Index of Medieval Maps http://www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/EMwebpages/EML.html
• Old World Traditional Trade Routes (OWTRAD) Project -georeferenced land, river and maritime trade routes of Eurasia and Africa during the period 10,000 BCE -circa 1820 CE.

http://www.ciolek.com/owtrad.html
• Images of ancient Greek ships http://www.bulfinch.org/fables/ships/grkship1.html
• Indonesia's online encyclopedia: The Lure of Spices

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