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Papers by Jaseera C M
KELI (August - September ), 2024
A note on Pattanam excavation.
Heritage: Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies in Archaeology , 2021
Beypore is an important maritime centre in the history of Kerala as well as Indian Ocean. It was ... more Beypore is an important maritime centre in the history of Kerala as well as Indian Ocean. It was active centre of navigation and shipbuilding from the medieval period. At Beypore several types of boats are built even today. The authors identified a stone anchor of Indo-Arabian type near Beypore. The anchor matches with the description of Varthema. This paper discusses the importance of the anchor and the nature of the boat that used the stone anchor.
Sahapedia, 2019
https://www.sahapedia.org/study-ceramics-grave-goods
Social Orbit, 2020
Pottery is one of mundane subjects in the archaeology of Kerala. A systematic analysis of pottery... more Pottery is one of mundane subjects in the archaeology of Kerala. A systematic analysis of pottery constitutes one of the major tools to contextualize the past society. This paper discusses the result of the analysis conducted on the pottery assemblage unearthed from the site Cheramanangadu. The study gives a detailed account of pottery typology. The paper proposes interpretation of the burial pottery by applying fabric analysis and use alteration trace analysis.
Antiquity, 2022
During the mid-first millennium AD, new kingdoms and states emerged across South Asia. At this ti... more During the mid-first millennium AD, new kingdoms and states emerged across South Asia. At this time, land grants made to Hindu temples are thought to have led to wide-ranging societal transformations. To date, however, neither the land-grant charters nor the changes they are said to have driven have been studied archaeologically. Here, the authors present the results of the first archaeological investigation of the charters and their landscape context. Bringing together the textual record with a survey of 268 religious and residential sites, the results establish historical baselines against which the longue durée developments of South Asian social, political and economic formation can be profitably re-posed.
The Archaeology of Burials: Examples from Indian Subcontinent , 2019
Internet Archaeology, 2019
This article presents the results of the analysis of the pottery from the recently excavated site... more 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 an 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.
All hyperlinks in this PDF document link back to the original published version of this article online.
Man and Enviornment, 2014
Heritage:JournalofMultidisciplinaryStudiesinArchaeology, 2017
This article presents the ethno‐archaeological work carried out by the author at ten pottery work... more This article presents the ethno‐archaeological work carried out by the author at ten pottery workshops in Ernakulam District, Central Kerala, South India. The production processes in these workshops were carefully documented and interviews were conducted with twenty potters as part of the study. One of the primary focuses of this study is the manufacturing process of ceramics. The paper describes different production methods such as wheel, mould and hand modeling which are still practiced in the various workshops of Central Kerala. It tries to explicate the link between vessel forms and their functions based on the examination of production process adopted at the workshops. The paper also seeks to understand how changing habits generate demands which are in turn reflected in the pottery assemblage produced at the workshops.
Man and Enviornment, 2016
James Babington’s Chattaparamba megalithic burials excavation in 1819 instigates the study on the... more James Babington’s Chattaparamba megalithic burials excavation in 1819 instigates the study on the megaliths of Kerala. Numerous researches on different aspects of megaliths have been carried out since then. The available published archaeological- environmental data, exploration undertaken by the author from 2013 to 2015 and personal observations framed this paper and it attempts to understand the distribution pattern of Megaliths of the Lower Periyar valley in relation to the landscapes. The article also intends to provide an overview of the Iron Age-early historic sites of the Lower Periyar valley.
KELI (August - September ), 2024
A note on Pattanam excavation.
Heritage: Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies in Archaeology , 2021
Beypore is an important maritime centre in the history of Kerala as well as Indian Ocean. It was ... more Beypore is an important maritime centre in the history of Kerala as well as Indian Ocean. It was active centre of navigation and shipbuilding from the medieval period. At Beypore several types of boats are built even today. The authors identified a stone anchor of Indo-Arabian type near Beypore. The anchor matches with the description of Varthema. This paper discusses the importance of the anchor and the nature of the boat that used the stone anchor.
Sahapedia, 2019
https://www.sahapedia.org/study-ceramics-grave-goods
Social Orbit, 2020
Pottery is one of mundane subjects in the archaeology of Kerala. A systematic analysis of pottery... more Pottery is one of mundane subjects in the archaeology of Kerala. A systematic analysis of pottery constitutes one of the major tools to contextualize the past society. This paper discusses the result of the analysis conducted on the pottery assemblage unearthed from the site Cheramanangadu. The study gives a detailed account of pottery typology. The paper proposes interpretation of the burial pottery by applying fabric analysis and use alteration trace analysis.
Antiquity, 2022
During the mid-first millennium AD, new kingdoms and states emerged across South Asia. At this ti... more During the mid-first millennium AD, new kingdoms and states emerged across South Asia. At this time, land grants made to Hindu temples are thought to have led to wide-ranging societal transformations. To date, however, neither the land-grant charters nor the changes they are said to have driven have been studied archaeologically. Here, the authors present the results of the first archaeological investigation of the charters and their landscape context. Bringing together the textual record with a survey of 268 religious and residential sites, the results establish historical baselines against which the longue durée developments of South Asian social, political and economic formation can be profitably re-posed.
The Archaeology of Burials: Examples from Indian Subcontinent , 2019
Internet Archaeology, 2019
This article presents the results of the analysis of the pottery from the recently excavated site... more 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 an 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.
All hyperlinks in this PDF document link back to the original published version of this article online.
Man and Enviornment, 2014
Heritage:JournalofMultidisciplinaryStudiesinArchaeology, 2017
This article presents the ethno‐archaeological work carried out by the author at ten pottery work... more This article presents the ethno‐archaeological work carried out by the author at ten pottery workshops in Ernakulam District, Central Kerala, South India. The production processes in these workshops were carefully documented and interviews were conducted with twenty potters as part of the study. One of the primary focuses of this study is the manufacturing process of ceramics. The paper describes different production methods such as wheel, mould and hand modeling which are still practiced in the various workshops of Central Kerala. It tries to explicate the link between vessel forms and their functions based on the examination of production process adopted at the workshops. The paper also seeks to understand how changing habits generate demands which are in turn reflected in the pottery assemblage produced at the workshops.
Man and Enviornment, 2016
James Babington’s Chattaparamba megalithic burials excavation in 1819 instigates the study on the... more James Babington’s Chattaparamba megalithic burials excavation in 1819 instigates the study on the megaliths of Kerala. Numerous researches on different aspects of megaliths have been carried out since then. The available published archaeological- environmental data, exploration undertaken by the author from 2013 to 2015 and personal observations framed this paper and it attempts to understand the distribution pattern of Megaliths of the Lower Periyar valley in relation to the landscapes. The article also intends to provide an overview of the Iron Age-early historic sites of the Lower Periyar valley.