Chalcolithic and modern potting at Gilund, Rajasthan: a cautionary tale

• Autores: Amrita Sarkar
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 85, Nº 329, 2011, págs. 994-1007
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • By an interesting coincidence the village of Gilund in Rajasthan, north-west India was host to an important Chalcolithic settlement of the early third millennium BC and to some of the last indigenous potters still working in the twenty-first century AD. The author shows how her study of the prehistoric potters was enhanced by what she learnt from their modern successors, pointing out that she was only just in time. These potters will be the last to practice and in this respect ethnoarchaeology is itself under threat