A Note on Sungsang Village at the Estuary of the Musi River in Southeastern Sumatra: A Reconsideration of the Historical Geography of the Palembang Region | Zendy

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A Note on Sungsang Village at the Estuary of the Musi River in Southeastern Sumatra: A Reconsideration of the Historical Geography of the Palembang Region

Author(s) -

O. W. Wolters

Publication year - 1979

Publication title -

indonesia

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.276

H-Index - 9

eISSN - 2164-8654

pISSN - 0019-7289

DOI - 10.2307/3350814

Subject(s) - estuary , period (music) , interpretation (philosophy) , historical geography , geography , subject (documents) , history , archaeology , oceanography , human geography , geology , economic geography , philosophy , linguistics , library science , aesthetics , computer science

On July 4, 1978, I had the opportunity of visiting the estuarine village of Sungsang.1 My companions and I went there to search for surface sherds. We left with more than we had expected, for we were able to recover the historical geography of the lower reaches of the Musi river more accurately than I had done when I wrote an article on the subject for Indonesia in 1975.2 In this note I shall revise my earlier understanding of Chinese texts of the Ming period and shall invoke geological evidence in support of my revised interpretation of their contents. I shall suggest that, contrary to my suggestion in 1975, the present estuary and shipping fairway, connecting Palembang with the sea, have not substantially changed since the fourteenth century.

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