报告题目：The Year 2520: Rediscovering the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road

报 告 人：Sarah WARD吴德赛

报告时间：2025.04.17 15:55

报告地点：外语楼105

报告摘要

This lecture challenges contemporary (2020 CE) assumptions regarding the 21st-century Maritime Silk Road that influence how the future of a rising China and its global impact are imagined. By quantifying the present and projecting it into the future, the future archaeology of abandoned infrastructure (ports) and architecture (ships) are evaluated alongside contemporary archival materials and cartographic imagery in a hypothetical scenario where, in 2520 CE, an archaeology team explores the 21st-century Maritime Silk Route. Theoretically framed within anthropological archaeology and employing maritime archaeology as a method, the team visits three port sites and identifies the remains of all 122 ships that sank between the East China Sea and the Mediterranean from 2016 to 2020 CE. The nature and extent of trade are revealed, the transnational maritime cultural landscape is reconstructed, and the outcome is a strikingly different understanding of the 21st-century Maritime Silk Route than many would have one believe.

本报告对当代（公元2020年）有关21世纪海上丝绸之路的主流认知提出质疑，这些认知深刻影响了人们对中国崛起及其全球影响之未来图景的想象。通过对当下的量化分析并将其投射至未来，文章在一个假设情境中展开探讨：在公元2520年，一支考古团队对21世纪海上丝绸之路展开考察，评估被遗弃的基础设施（港口）与建筑（船只）的“未来考古学”价值，同时结合当代的档案材料与制图图像进行研究。文章以人类学考古学为理论框架，采用海洋考古学作为研究方法，团队考察了三个港口遗址，并确认了2016至2020年间东海至地中海之间沉没的全部122艘船只遗骸。贸易的性质与范围得以揭示，跨国的海洋文化景观得以重建，最终呈现出一个与现今理解大相径庭的21世纪海上丝绸之路图景。

报告人简介

Sarah WARD

      Recognised by UNESCO as one of the Asia-Pacific region's “most distinguished experts in the field of underwater cultural heritage,” Sarah WARD （吴德赛） is a Professor (Foreign Expert) of Maritime Archaeology and Underwater Cultural Heritage at Dalian Maritime University. With a 24-year global career spanning the government, consultancy, not-for-profit, and academic sectors, she has worked across maritime, coastal, and underwater cultural heritage. Her work emphasises collaborative, trans-formative, and systems-based partnership approaches to the investigation, preservation, and management of Asia's underwater cultural heritage. A former MIT Ocean Discovery Fellow, Sarah is the founding Executive Director of the Asian Underwater Cultural Heritage Association (AUCHA), a Consultant Foreign Expert to China's National Centre for Archaeology, Co-Director of the China–Cambodia Underwater Cultural Heritage Cooperation Program, Chair of the Asian Regional Underwater Cultural Heritage Workshop series, and a Fellow of The Explorers Club, the world's leading field science organisation. She maintains an active publication program, with articles published in top Q1 SSCI, A&HCI, and ESCI journals, and has authored more than 200 reports and publications. Sarah is a sought-after guest lecturer at leading institutions across Asia and beyond, and has been based in China since 2018.

被联合国教科文组织誉为亚太地区“最杰出的水下文化遗产专家”之一，Sarah WARD（吴德赛 - 1974年生）是大连海事大学的海洋考古与水下文化遗产教授（外籍专家）。她在海洋、沿海和水下文化遗产领域拥有24年的全球职业经验，涉足政府、咨询、非营利和学术等多个领域。她的工作强调协作性、变革性以及系统性合作伙伴模式，致力于推动亚洲水下文化遗产的调查、保护与管理。作为麻省理工学院“海洋探索”奖学金获得者，她是亚洲水下文化遗产协会（AUCHA）的创始执行主任、中国国家文物局考古研究中心的外籍顾问专家、中柬水下文化遗产合作项目的联合主任、亚洲地区水下文化遗产研讨会系列主席，同时也是全球领先的野外科学组织——探险者俱乐部（The Explorers Club）的会士。

她在国际SSCI, A&HCI, 和ESCI期刊上发表了多篇学术论文，并已出版和发表各类报告与出版物超过200篇。Sarah也是亚洲及其他地区多所知名高校的特邀讲座教授，自2018年起常驻中国。