James W Lankton
Biographic Data
| ID | 1209409 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James W Lankton |
| GIVEN NAMES | James W |
| FAMILY NAME | Lankton |
| SIGNATURE | LANKTON J W |
| AFFILIATIONS | UCL Institute of Archaeology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Maritime Silk Road
The Maritime Silk Road foregrounds the numerous networks that have been woven across oceanic geographies, tying world regions together often far more extensively than land-based routes. On the strength of the new data which has emerged in the last two decades in the form of archaeological findings, as well as new techniques such as GIS modelling, the authors collectively demonstrate the existence of a very early global maritime trade. From archit…
Ancient Glass of South Asia
section, co-editor Alok Kumar Kanungo's review of "Traditional Bead and Bangle Crafts in India" includes many excellent photographs from his own fieldwork.Taken together, these four chapters provide a strong background to glass study in general and to glassworking in India in particular.in the Middle East and Western Europe at the End of the First Millennium CE, Transition from Natron to Plant Ash Soda or Forest Glasses" by Bernard Gratuze, Nadin…
Glass in Ancient India
Sembiran and Pacung on the north coast of Bali
An Archaeological Approach to Understanding the Meaning of Beads Using the Example of Korean National Treasure 634, A Bead from a 5th/6th-Century Royal Silla Tomb
An ancient bead is a document from the past—a message in a bottle—written in some lost symbolic language. Archaeologists try to understand that language by integrating scientific and technological approaches with the social, economic, political, and symbolic/ religious context in which the bead was found. As an example, we use Korean National Treasure 634 (NT634), a dark blue glass bead adorned with mosaic decorations of a bird, a flowering tree,…
Asia's Maritime Bead Trade
No mention is made in the entry on "chevron bead" that the layers are corrugated, giving the bead its name; this is discussed in the text.Glass is not homogeneous; it is heterogeneous.It is also not a substance but a state of matter.Siliceous does not only refer to glass, faience, and similar artificial products, but also to stones containing silica
Asia's Maritime Bead Trade
No mention is made in the entry on "chevron bead" that the layers are corrugated, giving the bead its name; this is discussed in the text.Glass is not homogeneous; it is heterogeneous.It is also not a substance but a state of matter.Siliceous does not only refer to glass, faience, and similar artificial products, but also to stones containing silica
An Archaeological Approach to Understanding the Meaning of Beads Using the Example of Korean National Treasure 634, A Bead from a 5th/6th-Century Royal Silla Tomb
An ancient bead is a document from the past—a message in a bottle—written in some lost symbolic language. Archaeologists try to understand that language by integrating scientific and technological approaches with the social, economic, political, and symbolic/ religious context in which the bead was found. As an example, we use Korean National Treasure 634 (NT634), a dark blue glass bead adorned with mosaic decorations of a bird, a flowering tree,…
Sembiran and Pacung on the north coast of Bali
Glass in Ancient India
The Maritime Silk Road
The Maritime Silk Road foregrounds the numerous networks that have been woven across oceanic geographies, tying world regions together often far more extensively than land-based routes. On the strength of the new data which has emerged in the last two decades in the form of archaeological findings, as well as new techniques such as GIS modelling, the authors collectively demonstrate the existence of a very early global maritime trade. From archit…
Ancient Glass of South Asia
section, co-editor Alok Kumar Kanungo's review of "Traditional Bead and Bangle Crafts in India" includes many excellent photographs from his own fieldwork.Taken together, these four chapters provide a strong background to glass study in general and to glassworking in India in particular.in the Middle East and Western Europe at the End of the First Millennium CE, Transition from Natron to Plant Ash Soda or Forest Glasses" by Bernard Gratuze, Nadin…
Ancient history (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · History (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Bead (2 works) · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology (2 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (1 work) · Architecture and Art History Studies (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Asian Studies and History (1 work)