Editors:
- Provides a comprehensive review of the Ancient Indian Glass
- Covers a vast array of literature on Indian glass origin and evolution
- Represents an indispensable reference for academic researchers
- Provides analytical aspects of glass of India and their implications to a wider world including Southeast Asia
- Written by the leading experts in the field
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Glass Origin and Evolution
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Ethnography and Literature
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About this book
Reviews
“South Asian glass research is effectively connected with the broader academic community focused on archaeological glass research, making it an excellent introductory resource for researchers, especially emerging scholars, interested in South Asian glass research. Moreover, it introduces fresh perspectives and insights, including South Asia’s unique glass recipes and products … . These contributions advance our understanding of ancient glass production, organization and dynamic exchange networks, thereby enriching the field of archaeological glass research with a wealth of new information.” (Kuan-Wen Wang, Antiquity, Vol. 97, 2023)
“The editors and authors are to be thanked and congratulated for the production of this well illustrated and comprehensive volume. Not only is there an abundance of new information, the literature covered is vast. It will be an essential reference on South Asian glass for years to come, invaluable to researchers in adjacent areas, and informative for anyone with an interest in archaeological glass. … This is a great book. I strongly recommend it.” (Ian C. Freestone, Asian Perspectives, The Journal of Archaeology and the Pacific, Vol. 62 (2), 2023)
Editors and Affiliations
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Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Gandhinagar, India
Alok Kumar Kanungo
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Negaunee Integrative Research Center, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, USA
Laure Dussubieux
About the editors
Alok Kumar Kanungo is an assistant research professor in IIT Gandhinagar. He 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 northeast India, and the Bondos and Juangs of Odisha both in the field and in museums across Europe and the UK. 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 fifteen books and seventy research articles and book chapters. He has been the recipient of many prestigious awards including SPARC, 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.
Laure Dussubieux is a chemist specialized in the determination of the compositions of ancient artefacts made from synthesized or natural glass, metals and stones. She obtained her Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Orléans (France) in 2001 with a dissertation focussed on the use of laser ablation – inductively coupled plasma – mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) to study the provenance and the circulation of ancient glass beads around the Indian Ocean. Prior to her appointment at the Field Museum, she was a post-doctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Institution (Museum Support Centre, Maryland, USA) where she developed the application of LA-ICP-MS to the study of ancient gold and the use of portable X-Ray Fluorescence to survey cultural artefacts. Since 2004, she has managed the Elemental Analysis Facility (EAF) at the Field Museum and her current title is a research scientist. At the EAF, in a little more than a decade, in addition to her own research on ancient glass from South and Southeast Asia, she facilitated more than 150 projects dealing with questions related to the archaeology of cultural production, interaction and exchange.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ancient Glass of South Asia
Book Subtitle: Archaeology, Ethnography and Global Connections
Editors: Alok Kumar Kanungo, Laure Dussubieux
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3656-1
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-3655-4Published: 01 September 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-3658-5Published: 02 September 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-3656-1Published: 31 August 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 557
Number of Illustrations: 59 b/w illustrations, 245 illustrations in colour
Topics: Archaeology, Structural Materials, Materials Science, general