Potteries of South and East Asia Through the Ages (3 Vols-Set)

Contents: Vol. I: Preface. 1. Origin of pottery in East Asia/Yan Wenming. 2. Early pottery in South and East Asia/A.K. Choudhary. 3. The incised and impressed pottery in South East Asia/Fiorella Rispoli. 4. Early potteries from xianrendong and diaotonghuan East China/Yan Wenming. 5. Neolithic cord-impressed poetry from sites of North East India/M. Hazarika. 6. Pottery from Khao Sai, Thailand/Roberto Ciarla. 7. Pottery 10,000 years, B.P. old from Yuchanyan in East Asia/Young Jiarong. 8. Pottery from reaches of the Yangtze river/Pei Anping. 9. Mesolithic potteries from Northern Vindhyan/J.N. Pal. 10. Mesolithic period pottery in South Asia/J.S. Nigam. 11. The earliest Neolithic pottery in South Asia/D.P. Agarwal. 12. Neolithic potteries from Northern Vindhyan/J.N. Pal. 13. Early Neolithic pottery motif from Kashmir/P.C. Choudhari. 14. Neolithic chalcolithic potteries of Eastern Uttar Pradesh/Shitala Prasad Singh. 15. Early Chalcolithic and Harappan potteries in Gujarat/Shweta Deshpande. 16. Early potteries of Western South Asia and Iran/V. Shinde and Ozra Rounagh. 17. Early Harappan pottery of North West South Asia/D.P. Sharma. 18. Early Harappan painted pottery tradition/Vibha Tripathi. 19. Excavated earliest Chalcolithic potteries in Gujarat/S.V. Rajesh and Ambika Patel. 20. Early Harappan burial pottery from Moti Pipli : Gujarat/Abhijit Majumdar and V.H. Sonawane. 21. A fresh outlook on Nal potteries in the collection of Indian Museum/Rita Dutta and Srabanti Sardar. 22.  Early Harappan horned deity from Padri/Vasant Shinde. 23. Classification of mature Harappan pottery/D.P. Sharma and Madhuri Sharma. 24. Mature Harappan ceramic of Gujarat/P. Panjwani. 25. Sothi pottery and Harappan/Tejas Garge. 26. Sothi type early Harappan potteries at Kalibangan/J.S. Nigam. 27. Harappan potteries from Tarkhanewala-Dera/P. Trivedi. 28. Early potteries tradition from Bhirrana/L.S. Rao. 29. Wet and stamped ware-comparative study/P. Krishna Mohan Reddy. 30. Pottery from Shahr-I Sokhta and early Harappan/D.P. Sharma and Anisha Saxena. 31. Chalcolithic painted grey wares in Pakistan and Iran/Rita P. Wright. 32. The Harappan ceramic wares/S.R. Rao. 33. Petrography of Harappan pottery from Lothal/Preeti A. Panjwani. 34. Harappan potteries in Sutlej Plain/K.N. Dikshit. 35. Harappan pottery in the Rigveda/Bhagwan Singh. 36. Harappan pottery in Hindon Yamuna Doab/Gunjan Srivastava. 37. Clay and pottery making/J.S. Nigam.

Vol. II: 38. The origine of potterien in mid-Ganga plain and Western India/M.D.N. Sahi. 39. Dull red ware OCP and copper hoards weapon/J.P. Upadhya. 40. Copper hoards and Ochre colour putteries Ganga-Yamuna Doab/Y.D. Sharma. 41. Keshavpur new OCP site in Aligarh/Ramjit and Mohd. Abid. 42. Chandaukha-an OCP site in Aligarh District/Ramjit and Mohd. Abid. 43. Shapes and designs of the Jorwe pottery/Z.A. Ansari and M.K. Dhavlikar. 44. Potteries chalcolithic culture of central India/M.K. Dhavalikar. 45. Chalcolithic potteries of Madhya Pradesh/Veena Dutta. 46. Motifs on Chalcolithic Malwa Potteries/Vinay Kumar. 47. Malva chalcolithic potteries from Chichali/Pushp Lata Singh. 48. Animal Motif on potteries from Chichali/Prabash Sahu. 49. Chalcolithic potteries of Kakoria and Koldihwa/J.N. Pal. 50. Potteries from Abhaipur/Anup Mishra. 51. Pottery Motifs from Ahichchhatra/V.S. Agarwal. 52. Early literary reference of pottery/Brajdeo Prasad Roy. 53. Black and red ware in India/Purushottam Singh. 54. Black and red and other ware excavation of Atranjikhera/R.C. Gaur. 55. The black and red ware/A.K. Mishra. 56. Chalcolithic black and red ware/Naseem Akhtar. 57. The Chalcolithic pottery of Southern Bihar/A.K. Prasad. 58. The black-and red ware at Senuwar and Khairadih in Mid Ganga plain/B.P. Singh. 59. Early Chalcolithic potteries from Agiabir/Vibha Tripathi. 60. Pottery of black-and-red ware culture in West Bengal/A. Dutta. 61. The grey pottery in North India/A.K. Mishra. 62. Techniques of painted grey ware/Ballab Saran. 63. The painted grey pottery/A.K. Mishra. 64. The painted grey ware at Atranjikhera/R.C. Gaur.

Vol. III: 65. The black slipped ware/A.K. Mishra. 66. N.B.P. ware origin, development, date in early Ganga plain/S.C. Saran. 67. The Northern black polished from Ropar/K.C. Nauriyal. 68. N.B.P. Site at Hariharpur, Jaunpur/Vibha Tripathi. 69. The northern black polished pottery (1000- 100 B.C.)/A.K. Mishra. 70. Excavation at Juafardih and early date of N.B.P./S.C. Saran. 71. Pottery of the Sarayupar plain/Daniela De Simone. 72. The N.B.P. in Mid Ganga plain/S.C. Saran. 73. Early potteries from Jhusi/J.N. Pal and M.C. Gupta. 74. N.B.P. ware and its associated objects/Lala Aditya Narain. 75. The Northern black polished ware/Sachidanand Sahay. 76. The Northern black polished ware in Bihar/Sita Ram Roy. 77. Observation on N.B.P. ware slip/H.C. Bhardwaj. 78. Scientific analysis of Northern black polished ware/K. Hedge. 79. Techniques and conservation of pottery/Sulekha Banerji. 80. Early historical Megalithic ceramic/J.N. Pal and Abha Pal. 81. Red polished ware sites in Gujarat/Ambika Patel and Rajesh S.V. 82. Potteries in the Brahmanical literature/M.S. Pandey. 83. Inscribed potteries and potters/Sushil Malti Devi. 84. Spouted pottery in India/C. Prasad Singh. 85. Early historic pottery from Mathura/Achyutanand Jha. 86. Pottery from Pundravardhana/Achyutanand Jha. 87. Ceramics and maritime route of India/I.K. Sharma. 88. Stratigraphy and pottery of Arikamedu/P. Ravitchandirana.

These volumes cover oldest handmade potteries of Mesolithic Neolithic transition to beginning of early medieval period. In East Asia earliest handmade potteries begin between 21000-15000 B.C. The first volumes cover, late Mesolithic to Neolithic, early Harappan, Mature Harappan period potteries and has 37 papers of scholar like Yan waning, M. Hazarika, J.N. Pal, J.S. Nigam, P.C. Chaudhari, Shweta Deshpande, H. Sonwane, P. Tirvedi, Anisha Saxena, Rita Duta, P. Wright. S.R. Rao, K.N. Dikshit, Bhagwan Singh have contributed their papers. The volume II has 26 paper on Chalcolithic and early iron age period potteries. Scholars like M.D.N. Sahi, M.K. Dhavalikar, J.N. Pal, Anup Misra, P. Singh, R.C. Gaur, A.K.Mishra, Vibha Tirpathi and A.K. Dutta have contributed their papers. Vol. III has 22 papers on potteries of early historic period which begin around first millennium B.C. to early medieval. The scholar like S.C. Saran, Vibha Tripathi, M.C. Gupta, S. Sahai, H.C. Bhardwaj, Sulekha Banerji, Ambika Patel, H. Harle, A. Jha and I.K. Sharma have contributed their papers. Oldest Potteries from lower Ganga Yamuna doab are from Chapanimondo, Lahuradeva, Hetapati and Jhusi are dated between 8400-5400 B.C. Harka ware at Bhirrana begin around c. 5000-4000 B.C. The O.C.P. originated from Hakra ware around 3700-3600 B.C. at Ganeshwar and Jodhpur and continued till 1800 to 1100 B.C. at Parihar Sringverpur and Kaushambi. The Painted Grey pottery from Mahabharat site is different with Grey ware of Shahitump. Black and red ware begin around 3000 B.C. and there are of different varieties and it continued till 100 B.C. Vibha Tripathi, S.C. Saran and D.P. Sharma observed N.B.P. begins around 1000 B.C. Iron with steel tip were also in use during 1000-600 B.C. Old dates of iron in South Asia are from all Allahdino, Lothal, Ahar, and newly excavated Megalithic site at Thelungancar in Tamil Nadu and also other sites in Southern South Asia. (jacket)