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STONE BEADS OF SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA: Archaeology, Ethnography and Global Connections

Edited By :- Alok Kumar Kanungo

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Type: English

Format: Hard Bound

ISBN-13: 978-81-7305-585-0

Place: New Delhi

Edition: 1st

Publisher: ARYAN BOOKS INTERNATIONAL

Size: 22cm x 31cm

Product Year: 2017

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Stone Beads of South and Southeast Asia: Archaeology, Ethnography and Global Connections is by far the most comprehensive book on stone beads. With contributions from 25 leading scholars from 17 research institutions of eight countries, the book dwells on related matter from ancient as well as modern India and other regions of South Asia.
Stone beads have gained the reputation of being one of the most important markers of prehistoric
technological complexity, especially in South Asia. Their study is crucial for understanding our past
contacts, technology and trade, besides comprehending our mastery over material culture and the procurement of diverse raw materials. Keeping this in mind, this book discusses, with the help of literary and epigraphical references, the development of stone beads through the ages, the utility and fruitfulness of typologies, the techniques historically used in their production and finally the modern scientific procedures which can be used in their study to better understand and interpret the past technology. It also deals with ethnohistorical studies of Khambhat (Cambay) to understand the historical development of the city—the most prominent traditional stone bead industry of the world—since the crafts started there, and ethnographical studies to know the symbolism behind the aggressive use of particular products.
The combined output of this book is a result of long-term fieldwork and experimental and scientific studies in laboratories in not only answering the statics of beads like 'when' and 'where' but also cognitivism, that is, 'why' and 'how'.

Foreword
Preface
Introduction

Beads: Importance and Literature
1. Small Find, Immense Impact: Importance of Bead Studies
— Kishor K. Basa
2. Jewels and Jewellery in Early Indian Archaeology
and Literature
— R.S. Bisht
3. Beads and Ornaments in Early Tamizh Texts
— V. Selvakumar
4. Ratnattin Tiruvābharaṇaṅgal (Sacred Gemstone Ornaments) in the Inscriptions of Brihatīswarā Temple, Tañcāvūr
— V. Selvakumar

Beads: History, Methodology and Ethnoarchaeology
5. Geological Aspects of Raw Materials for Stone Beads
— Ravi Prasad, V.N. Prabhakar and Vikrant Jain
6. History of Stone Beads and Drilling: South Asia
— Jonathan Mark Kenoyer
7. Stone Beads of the Indus Tradition: New Perspectives on Harappan Bead Typology,
Technology and Documentation
— Jonathan Mark Kenoyer
8. Living Tradition: Stone Bead Production in Khambhat—An Ethnoarchaeological Approach
— Kuldeep K. Bhan, Jonathan Mark Kenoyer
and Massimo Vidale
9. Transitions in the Stone Beadmaking at Khambhat: An Ethnohistorical Survey
— Alok Kumar Kanungo
10. Stone Bead Users – Symbolic Value and Trade: The Nagas
— Manabu Koiso, Hitoshi Endo and Ayumu Konasukawa

Beads: Case Studies from South Asia
11. Early Evidence of Beadmaking at Mehrgarh, Pakistan: A Tribute to the Scientific Curiosity of Catherine and Jean-François Jarrige
— Massimo Vidale, Maurizio Mariottini,
Giancarlo Sidoti and Muhammad Zahir
12. Stone Bead Production through the Ages in Gujarat
— Kuldeep K. Bhan
13. Early Harappan Bead Production in Gujarat: Technology, Adaptation and Contacts
— P. Ajithprasad and Marco Madella
14. Documentation and Analysis of Stone Drills from Dholavira
— V.N. Prabhakar
15. Antiquity of Semi-precious Stone Beads from
Deccan
— Rabindra Kumar Mohanty
16. South Indian Stones Beads: Archaeological, Textual and Ethnographic Approach to Traditional
Gemstone Industry
— K. Rajan
17. Early Historic Stone Beads from Ahichhatra
— Bhuvan Vikrama
18. Ancient Stone Beads of Southeast Asia and
Indian Connection
— Bunchar Pongpanich

Beads: Scientific Studies
19. Scientific Analyses and Stone Beads
— Laure Dussubieux and Mark Golitko
20. Non-Destructive Identification and Characterization of Ancient Beads: A Case Study from Harappa
— Randall Law
21. Using SEM to Study Stone Bead Technology
— Jonathan Mark Kenoyer

List of Contributors

Dr. Alok Kumar Kanungo, a faculty at IIT Gandhinagar, was born in Odisha and grew up in close contact with many indigenous communities of eastern and north-eastern India. His early childhood experiences led him to eventually focus on archaeological and ethnographic studies of indigenous and ancient technology.
For the last two decades, Dr. Kanungo has travelled and documented the rich heritage of the Nagas of
North-East India, and the Bondos and Juangs of Odisha both in the field and in museums across Europe and the United Kingdom. He has worked in many areas where it is difficult to say where anthropology or history stops and archaeology begins. He has studied and published extensively on the subject of glass and glass-bead production, and written or edited 11 books and about five dozen research articles. He has been the recipient of many prestigious awards including Humboldt, Fulbright and Homi Bhabha Fellowships. He has lectured in many universities and research institutes in Taiwan, England, USA, New Zealand, Bangladesh, Italy, France, Turkey, Malaysia, Germany and Thailand, besides India.

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