Beads, Bangles, and Glass: Historical and Ethnographic Insights into Glass Working in South India

Author(s): Shinu Abraham; K.P. Rao; Praveena Gullapalli

Year: 2015

Summary

The contemporary glass bead making village of Papanaidupet in southern Andhra Pradesh has long served as the ethnographic model for understanding ancient South Indian glass working. Recent surveys, conducted as part of the project Production Landscapes of Southern Andhra Pradesh (PLoSAP), have yielded new data about contemporary and recent glass working in this region of south India. These data include a modern glass bangle making community with production links to Papanaidupet as well as an as-yet undocumented archaeological glass working site. A detailed exploration of the materials and processes at these sites will help archeologists reconstruct early glass technologies in southern India.

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Beads, Bangles, and Glass: Historical and Ethnographic Insights into Glass Working in South India. Shinu Abraham, Praveena Gullapalli, K.P. Rao. Presented at The 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, California. 2015 ( tDAR id: 396521)

Keywords

General
Beads Glass Technology

Geographic Keywords
South Asia

Spatial Coverage

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