South Asian Ceramics

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).

• 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; Chapter II Mesolithic Pottery with Special Reference to North-Central India; Chapter III Chalcolithic Bowls of Balathal: A Study of Vessel Proportion; Chapter IV Ochre Coloured Pottery and Painted Grey Ware: Continuity and Change from the Harappan Civilisation; Chapter V Chronological Features of Ceramics from Vadnagar Excavation, Gujarat; Chapter VI New Approaches towards Understanding the Ceramics from Coastal West Bengal; Chapter VII The Voice of a Pot: Reconstructing Societies through Practices of Production; Section II CHRONOLOGIES: Chapter VIII Tracing the Origins: Investigating Early Harappan Ceramic Traditions in Gujarat; Chapter IX Revisiting the Bronze Age Ceramics of Gujarat: The Cultural - Chronological Connections; Chapter X Ceramic Chronologies of Tamil Nadu: An Overview; Chapter XI Stability and Change in South Indian Ceramics: A View from Kadebakele; Chapter XII Relative Chronology, Ceramic Typology and Communities of Practice: Historicising Ceramic Consumption Practices in Ancient South Deccan Mortuary Ritual; Chapter XIII Northern Black Polished Ware: Antiquity of an Ancient Science; Chapter XIV Analytical Index of the Pottery from 6th to 13th century CE: Case Study of the Ceramics from Ancient Bengal; Section III TRADE AND CULTURE CONTACT: Chapter XV The Indian Red Polished Ware: Stratigraphic, Visual and Typological Analyses; Chapter XVI Early Historic Trade Ceramics in Southern India; Chapter XVII Beyond Imports: Locally-Made and Hybrid Industries as Tracers of Early South Asia–Southeast Asia Interactions (500 BCE -100 CE); Chapter XVIII Torpedo Jars of Mesopotamian Origin at Vadnagar – A Tale of Interaction During 1st Millennium CE; 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; Chapter XX Ethnoarchaeology in the Field: A Cautionary Tale from Potters in Mewar; Chapter XXI Experimental Archaeology and Ethnoarchaeology- Pottery Techniques Perspective; Chapter XXII Ceramic Tradition of Ladakh; Chapter XXIII Ceramics in Northeast India: Recent Studies; Chapter XXIV Cord-marked Pottery Tradition of Nagaland: Survival and Continuity; Section V PYROTECHNOLOGY: Chapter XXV Ceramics in the Indus Tradition: Technology, Gender and Ideology; Chapter XXVI Chemical-Technological Analyses of the Li People Ceramics of Hainan Island: The Problem of Preserving Pottery Traditions; Chapter XXVII On the Importance of Technical Ceramics: Archaeometric Analyses and Historical Interpretation of Crucibles, Furnaces, Moulds and Tuyères; Section VI MICROSCOPY AND COMPOSITIONAL STUDY: Chapter XXVIII Microstructural Analyses of Harappan Ceramics from Gujarat; Chapter XXIX Scientific Inquiry of Ganeshwar Ceramics of Sikar District, Rajasthan; 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; Chapter XXXI Some Aspects of Northern Black Polished Ware Manufacturing Technologies; Chapter XXXII The Geochemical Study of Bitumen Coating the Interior Face of Torpedo Jars (3rd -7th c. CE) from India: Composition and Origin; Chapter XXXIII The Elemental Composition of Late Medieval Monochrome Glaze Ceramics from the West Coast India; 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; Chapter XXXV A Matter of Colour: An Insight into the Colouring Technologies of Indian Glazed Ceramic Tiles; Chapter XXXVI Earth to Exhibit: Conserving Ceramics at Archaeological Sites; Index.