Preface

Abstract

The forthcoming issue of the International Journal of History & Archaeology Research Studies (IJHARS) brings together a diverse collection of rigorously researched articles that advance historical and archaeological inquiry through comparative, interdisciplinary, and global perspectives. The contributions in this volume collectively explore how human societies have been shaped by movement, exchange, power, memory, and material culture across time and space.

Several articles engage with large-scale historical processes, including comparative analyses of slavery and forced labor systems across Atlantic, Arab, and Asian worlds, offering critical insights that challenge Eurocentric narratives and highlight interconnected global economies. Complementing this, studies on ancient maritime trade routes draw on archaeological evidence from shipwrecks and port excavations to reconstruct complex networks of commerce and cultural transmission across the Indian Ocean, Mediterranean, and South China Sea.