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Posted by: beadiste Post Reply
08/06/2018, 08:00:50

Has anyone read this? Does it provide new insights?

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Posted by: will Post Reply
08/06/2018, 08:43:32

Hi Chris,

Two articles come to mind that were published in 2016, both in Science Direct.

The first by Shinu Abraham is mainly about the manufacture of Indo-Pacific Beads in India and their impact on trade in the region. It contains new data about the archaeology and expands very usefully on Peter Francis's work.

The second is by two Belgian researchers, Constantin Pion and Bernard Gratuze, about a large quantity of Indo-Pacific beads that have apparently been discovered in 6th century Merovingian sites in France. It's exciting if correct, but I'm still doubtful about some of their findings.

W.

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Thanks, Will - for some reason the link didn't show up in my post (operator error probably)
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Posted by: beadiste Post Reply
08/06/2018, 13:53:08

But here it is:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352226716300071

Glass beads and glass production in early South India: Contextualizing Indo-Pacific bead manufacture by Shinu Anna Abraham

Central to bead scholar Peter Francis's interpretations about the manufacture and distribution of Indian Ocean glass beads is the assertion that the Indo-Pacific bead – a small monochrome drawn glass bead commonly found at sites around the Indian Ocean – was originally produced in South India in the early centuries BCE/CE. He further contends that their manufacture continued for the next two millennia, and that in that time the artisans and/or their unique technology migrated from South India to other parts of Asia, including Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia. The dozen or so years since Francis's extensive research on the Indo-Pacific bead have produced new data from survey, excavations, and chemical analyses which provide a better context for understanding this particular artifact category. Moving beyond Francis's study of ethnoarcheological and excavated materials from Papanaidupet and Arikamedu, this paper will review the available data for glass in premodern South India, including recently discovered sites in southern Andhra Pradesh, and consider strategies for reconstructing the broader socio-economic settings in which early South Indian Indo-Pacific bead manufacture took place.



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