1st Edition
South Asian Ceramics Archaeology, Ethnography, Material Sciences and Global Connections
Foreword
Preface
List of contributors
Section I DOCUMENTATION, TYPOLOGY, PAINTING AND DESIGN
Chapter I Painted and Decorated Pottery of the Indus Tradition 6500-3000 BP (4500-1000 BCE): Origins, Continuity and Change
Jonathan Mark Kenoyer
Chapter II Mesolithic Pottery with Special Reference to North-Central India
Jagannath Pal
Chapter III Chalcolithic Bowls of Balathal: A Study of Vessel Proportion
Anup Mishra
Chapter IV Ochre Coloured Pottery and Painted Grey Ware: Continuity and Change from the Harappan Civilisation
Bhuvan Vikrama
Chapter V Chronological Features of Ceramics from Vadnagar Excavation, Gujarat
Grace Ann Varkey, Amol Kulkarni and Abhijit Ambekar
Chapter VI New Approaches towards Understanding the Ceramics from Coastal West Bengal
Kaushik Gangopadhyay
Chapter VII The Voice of a Pot: Reconstructing Societies through Practices of Production
Prerana Srimaal
Section II CHRONOLOGIES
Chapter VIII Tracing the Origins: Investigating Early Harappan Ceramic Traditions in Gujarat
Rajesh Sasidharan Vasantha and Abhayan Girija Sasidharan
Chapter IX Revisiting the Bronze Age Ceramics of Gujarat: The Cultural - Chronological Connections
Kuldeep K. Bhan
Chapter X Ceramic Chronologies of Tamil Nadu: An Overview
K. Rajan and R. Sivanantham
Chapter XI Stability and Change in South Indian Ceramics: A View from Kadebakele
Carla Sinopoli
Chapter XII Relative Chronology, Ceramic Typology and Communities of Practice: Historicising Ceramic Consumption Practices in Ancient South Deccan Mortuary Ritual
Peter Johansen
Chapter XIII Northern Black Polished Ware: Antiquity of an Ancient Science
Alok Kumar Kanungo
Chapter XIV Analytical Index of the Pottery from 6th to 13th century CE: Case Study of the Ceramics from Ancient Bengal
Coline Lefrancq
Section III TRADE AND CULTURE CONTACT
Chapter XV The Indian Red Polished Ware: Stratigraphic, Visual and Typological Analyses
Sunil Gupta
Chapter XVI Early Historic Trade Ceramics in Southern India
V.Selvakumar
Chapter XVII Beyond Imports: Locally-Made and Hybrid Industries as Tracers of Early South Asia–Southeast Asia Interactions (500 BCE -100 CE)
Bérénice Bellina and Aude Favereau
Chapter XVIII Torpedo Jars of Mesopotamian Origin at Vadnagar – A Tale of Interaction During 1st Millennium CE
Abhijit S. Ambekar, Ananya Chakraborty, Amol Kulkarni and Grace Ann Varkey
Section IV EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES AND ETHNOARCHAEOLOGY
Chapter XIX Experimental Reconstruction of a 6th century BCE Greek Updraft Pottery Kiln, and its Socio-Technical Implications to Harappan Kilns
Alberto Rossi, Nicola Albertin, Valentina Famari, Emanuela Faresin, Francesca Adesso and Massimo Vidale
Chapter XX Ethnoarchaeology in the Field: A Cautionary Tale from Potters in Mewar
Amrita Sarkar
Chapter XXI Experimental Archaeology and Ethnoarchaeology- Pottery Techniques Perspective
S. Udayakumar
Chapter XXII Ceramic Tradition of Ladakh
Anuradha Panda
Chapter XXIII Ceramics in Northeast India: Recent Studies
Manjil Hazarika
Chapter XXIV Cord-marked Pottery Tradition of Nagaland: Survival and Continuity
Ditamulu Vasa
Section V PYROTECHNOLOGY
Chapter XXV Ceramics in the Indus Tradition: Technology, Gender and Ideology
Jonathan Mark Kenoyer
Chapter XXVI Chemical-Technological Analyses of the Li People Ceramics of Hainan Island: The Problem of Preserving Pottery Traditions
Oleg Kardash, Ekaterina Girchenko, Yuliya Petrova and Natalya Tanykova
Chapter XXVII On the Importance of Technical Ceramics: Archaeometric Analyses and Historical Interpretation of Crucibles, Furnaces, Moulds and Tuyères
Thomas Oliver Pryce
Section VI MICROSCOPY AND COMPOSITIONAL STUDY
Chapter XXVIII Microstructural Analyses of Harappan Ceramics from Gujarat
K.Krishnan
Chapter XXIX Scientific Inquiry of Ganeshwar Ceramics of Sikar District, Rajasthan
Sudarshan Chakradhari, Vikas Kumar Singh, Manisha Singh and Ravindra Nath Singh
Chapter XXX From the East to the West: Investigating the Presence of “South China Sea ceramics” in South Asia from the 2nd Millennium BCE to the Early 1st Millennium CE
Aude Favereau
Chapter XXXI Some Aspects of Northern Black Polished Ware Manufacturing Technologies
Sidharth Shankar Rai
Chapter XXXII The Geochemical Study of Bitumen Coating the Interior Face of Torpedo Jars (3rd -7th c. CE) from India: Composition and Origin
Jacques Connan, Ritvik Balvally, Kamal Badreshany, Michael H. Engel, Alex Zumberge, Yadubir Singh Rawat, Jeewan Singh Kharakwal, Virag Sontakke, Shantanu Vaidya and Shrikant Ganvir
Chapter XXXIII The Elemental Composition of Late Medieval Monochrome Glaze Ceramics from the West Coast India
Laure Dussubieux, Alok Kumar Kanungo and Yadubir Singh Rawat
Section VII RESIDUE ANALYSES, GLAZING AND CONSERVATION
Chapter XXXIV From Pot to Plate: The Status and Future Scope of Lipid Residue Analysis in South Asian Archaeology
Kalyan Sekhar Chakraborty
Chapter XXXV A Matter of Colour: An Insight into the Colouring Technologies of Indian Glazed Ceramic Tiles
Maninder Singh Gill
Chapter XXXVI Earth to Exhibit: Conserving Ceramics at Archaeological Sites
Stephen P. Koob
Index
Biography
Dr Alok Kumar Kanungo is an Associate Research Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar and an Adjunct Associate Professor at Flinders University.
Dr K. Rajan is a former Professor at Pondicherry University and current Academic and Research Advisor to the Tamil Nadu State Department of Archaeology.
Dr R.Sivanantham is Joint Director of the Tamil Nadu State Department of Archaeology and served as Deputy Director and Commissioner-in-Charge (2021–23).
