Report of the Archaeological Survey of Chamak and its Surroundings, District Amaravati, Maharashtra

Hawkes, Jason; Abbas, Riza; Willis, Michael D.

doi:10.5334/aa.115

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“…Rather, they could mark two distinct chronological periods. At Chachondi, this class also correspond to the 'Later Red Slipped Ware' dated to the early medieval and medieval periods (Hawkes et al, 2016). It is also worth noting that the sherds of this class of pottery encountered during survey are generally larger and less fragmentary than those of other classes.…”

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“…Priority was given to sites that have been dated with absolute methods such as radiocarbon dating, and then to sites that have been dated using relative measures (coins, other pottery types, and so on). Especially useful comparative assemblages were those from Mahurjhari , which was excavated between (Hunter, 1933Deo, 1973;Mohanty, 1999Mohanty, , 2003Mohanty, , 2004Mohanty, , 2005Mohanty, , 2006Thakuria & Mohanty, 2009;Vaidya & Mohanty, 2015), and Chachondi from where section scrapings were taken in 2015 (Hawkes et al, 2016(Hawkes et al, , 2020. Both of these sites have recently benefitted from AMS dating of charcoal samples taken from archaeological contexts (Hawkes et al, 2020a;Mohanty et al, 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Class 14 variants 1-3 correspond to the 'Coarse Red Slipped Ware' identified at Chachondi in archaeological contexts that have been dated to the sixth to fifth century BCE (Hawkes et al, 2016). This class has not been identified at Mahujhari, Paithan or Pauni.…”

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“…Addressing this, we have examined the pottery that was collected during landscape surveys of different parts of the region, and sought to analyse them in new ways. Surveys were carried out as part of a wider project investigating the wider longer term societal and cultural change in region (Hawkes et al, 2016(Hawkes et al, , 2020b. They took place in three 2 The periodisation of South Asia's past uses a number of terms that are unique to the region and are defined on the basis of both cultural and technological changes.…”

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Accepting Variation and Embracing Uncertainty: Creating a Regional Pottery Typology in South Asian Archaeology

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2020

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This article presents the results of the analysis of archaeological ceramics collected during landscape surveys in the Vidarbha of Maharashtra, India; and offers the first attempt at a regional pottery typology for this area. Here, as in many other parts of South Asia, the pottery from archaeological sites have been subject to considerable scrutiny. Yet, so far approaches to their study have focussed on mainly their surface colour and feel. This has resulted in overly simplistic typologies that do not (and cannot) accommodate the full range of variation that exists within a ceramic assemblage, and so limit their value as archaeological evidence. Addressing this, we apply a chaîne opératoire-based approach to the analysis of a ceramic assemblage that we have been developing in this region. This results in a much more complex and detailed pottery typology than has so far been achieved. Throughout this study we also identify points of comparison with familiar parallels published elsewhere. In doing so, the resulting typology, while by no means the final word on the matter, provides a valuable and flexible resource that others working in this region and neighbouring areas can use for their own analyses and research. Moreover, in shifting the bases of categorisation and classification to the ways that pottery was made, we are able to incorporate far more of the variation that exists in the material itself. Indeed, the amount of variation can be somewhat bewildering in comparison to the standard (limiting) typological categories that populate earlier reports, and forces us to question those frameworks. Yet, we argue that it is precisely this sort of uncertainty that has to be embraced if the study of archaeological ceramics for the region of the ancient Vidarbha is going to continue to develop as a meaningful area of archaeological enquiry.

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A Typology of Practice: The Archaeological Ceramics from Mahurjhari

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This article presents the results of the analysis of the pottery from the recently excavated site at Mahurjhari in central India. In doing so, it also proposes a new way of looking at archaeological ceramics in South Asia. Here, archaeological ceramics are traditionally defined on the basis of their visual appearance (their colour and texture), which results in a great deal of ambiguity, limits intra-and interregional comparison, and impedes a more material culture-based approach to their study. Indeed, there is no established pottery typology for the region in which this site is located, and despite the fact that ceramics invariably account for the majority of excavated assemblages they frequently remain unreported. Addressing this, we suggest that recording and analysing archaeological ceramics on the basis of how they were made (essentially, implementing a chaîne opératoire approach) might be a useful way to proceed. Given that such approaches are new in this area, we explain what this entails, and then present the results of the analysis of this pottery assemblage using these methods-defining classes of pottery on the basis of traces left by the ways they were made. With a typology thus defined on the basis on the practice of pottery manufacture, we then seriate the assemblage with reference to recent AMS dates obtained from the site and suggest a chronological sequence for the pots from this site. These results are then framed within a wider discussion of the potential value of the application of new ways of looking at archaeological ceramics in South Asia.

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Report of the Archaeological Survey of Chamak and its Surroundings, District Amaravati, Maharashtra

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Accepting Variation and Embracing Uncertainty: Creating a Regional Pottery Typology in South Asian Archaeology

Accepting Variation and Embracing Uncertainty: Creating a Regional Pottery Typology in South Asian Archaeology

A Typology of Practice: The Archaeological Ceramics from Mahurjhari

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