Title
Revisiting Indian Rouletted Ware and the Impact of Indian Ocean Trade in Early Historic South Asia
Document Type
Article
Version
Publisher's PDF
Publication Title
Antiquity
Volume
84
Publication Date
2010
Abstract
Indian Rouletted Ware pottery is the iconic marker of the overseas reach of the subcontinent at the turn of the first millennium AD. In the mid twentieth century this was naturally seen as prompted by the contemporary Roman Empire, while the later post-colonial discourse has emphasised the independence and long life of Indian initiatives. In this new analysis the author demonstrates a more complex socio-economic situation. While Greyware is distributed long term over south India, Rouletted ware is made in at least two regional centres for coastal communities using a new ceramic language, one appropriate to an emerging international merchant class.
Publisher's Statement
© 2010 by Antiquity Publications Ltd. Publisher's version available at http://www.antiquity.ac.uk/Ant/084/ant0841043.htm.
Citation
Magee, Peter. "Revisiting Indian Rouletted Ware and the Impact of Indian Ocean Trade in Early Historic South Asia," Antiquity 84 (2010): 1043-1054.
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