Compositional Analysis of Ceramics from the Medieval Port of Madayi, Kerala, India

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Ceramics and Archaeological Sciences 2024" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Beginning around the eighth century the volume and scale of exchange between the societies around the Indian Ocean and southeast Asia increased substantially. Archaeological work at the trade port community of Madayi, in the Kerala State, southwest India provides evidence of the integration of this south Indian community into the contemporary global economy. The small size and erosion of the surface of sherds has removed some of the painted and glazed decoration making identification through physical observation alone difficult. Typological, petrographic, and LA-ICP-MS analysis of glazed and earthenware recovered during the project has identified locally produced ceramics while other pottery sherds originated in southern Mesopotamia, China, and southeast Asia.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)   •
• Ceramics and Archaeological Sciences 2024

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Abstract Id(s): 37760.0