Acknowledgments 

The Maritime Silk Road: An Introduction/ Franck Billé, Sanjyot Mehendale, and James Lankton

Global Connectivities

1. Spaces, Places, and Things: The Spatial Dimension of Early Indian Ocean Exchange/ Eivind Heldaas Seland
2. Open Space and Flexible Borders: Theorizing Maritime Space through Premodern Sino-Islamic Connections/ Hyunhee Park
3. From Regional to Global: Early Glass and the Development of the Maritime Silk Road/ James W. Lankton

Regional Nodes

4. Archaeological Evidence of Shipping and Shipbuilding Along The Maritime Silk Road/ Jun Kimura
5. Networks and Cultural Mapping of South Asian Maritime Trade/ Ariane de Saxcé
6. Southern Africa and the Indian Ocean World:  Relocating Agency from the “Center” to the “Periphery” and from the Maritime Silk Road to the Maritime Ivory Route/ Shadreck Chirikure

Localities

7. Chinese Ceramics on the Maritime Silk Road: The Importance of Context/ John N. Miksic
8. Urban Demographics along the Asian Maritime Silk Road: Archaeological Small Finds and Settlement Patterns at Premodern Port-Settlements of the Malay Region/ Derek Heng
9. Indian Ocean Trade through Buddhist Iconographies/ Osmund Bopearachchi
 
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