South Asian Ceramics

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 Asiaâ"Southeast Asia Interactions (500 BCE -100 CE); Chapter XVIII Torpedo Jars of Mesopotamian Origin at Vadnagar â" 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 Tuy¨res; 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 âSouth China Sea ceramicsâ 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.