Jason D Hawkes
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 661470 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jason D Hawkes |
| NOMBRES | Jason D |
| APELLIDO | Hawkes |
| FIRMA | HAWKES J D |
| AFILIACIONES | British Museum |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1008-5848 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2008 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Grounding texts and theories of societal change
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 co…
An Immaterial Problem
India is famous as a land of cloth. Yet for much of India’s historical past, the ways textiles were made and used, and their wider cultural and societal dimensions, are poorly understood. Most of what we know about them is gleaned from texts, but they have not been studied archaeologically. This is in contrast to archaeologies of earlier pre- and proto-historic periods, which are more materially grounded and draw on a range of proxies in examinin…
Ever the Handmaid? A Consideration of What a Medieval Archaeology in South Asia Might Be
This article shifts discussion of the medieval in South Asia away from conversations about ‘what’ took place towards ‘how’ it is studied. Following a brief review of what defines the South Asian medieval, this article starts with the premise that the entire period has not been studied archaeologically and that there is a great deal of potential in doing so. This potential is explored with reference to recent work in Central India, which has inves…
Chapter 15 Paithan Excavation
Kennet, Derek, Hawkes, Jason and Willis, Michael. "Chapter 15: Paithan Excavation: Historical, Archaeological, Geographical and Epigraphical Contexts." In Excavations at Paithan, Maharashtra: Transformations in Early Historic and Early Medieval India, 324-335. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110653540-015\n\n \n\nGupta. \nHindu Tempel. \nHindu temple\n\nLandwirtschaft. \nVakataka. \nagriculture. \narchaeology. \nRELI…
Accepting Variation and Embracing Uncertainty
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 …
Bridget Allchin
Multi-Period Regional Survey Data from Vidarbha, Maharashtra, India
Presented here are the data collected during regional surveys of Vidarbha, India, which were collected to reconstruct the societal and cultural changes that took place in this region during the mid-first millennium CE. Following an overview of the data and their research context, we describe the methods that were used to collect, process and analyse them. This is accompanied by a critical assessment of the factors that constrained the survey and …
Back to basics
In this article we advocate a return to the consideration and examination of the basic building blocks of archaeological enquiry: the evidence. Reacting to a widely held perception that archaeology now understands various commonalities of human experience, we suggest that such concepts and the inevitable oscillation towards “big picture” approaches that stems from them are problematic. They engender a type of scholarship that does not always enga…
A Typology of Practice
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 inter-regional comparison, and impedes a m…
Report of the Archaeological Survey of Chamak and its Surroundings, District Amaravati, Maharashtra
This report presents the results of a short programme of fieldwork targeted towards the investigation of the archaeological and geographical setting of the Chamak copperplate charter. This inscription, unearthed in the modern village of Chamak in 1868, records the grant of land to a group of Brahmins living in the village of ‘Charmaka’. These have long been assumed to be the same place, but the archaeological contexts of the find spot of the char…
India in Africa
Archaeological approaches to the study of Indian Ocean connections tend to focus on “foreign” objects that appear in different contexts. In East Africa, these objects are found at settlements on what would become the Swahili coast, and they show that these settlements were linked to Indian Ocean networks from as early as the 7th century AD. The limited quantities of these remains mean that these earliest connections are difficult to see; they bec…
Finding the “Early Medieval” in South Asian Archaeology
The concept of an “early medieval” period (c. 600–1300 c.e. ) in the study of South Asia’s past is well established, yet remains ill defined and poorly understood. As a result, debates regarding grand explanative frameworks, not to mention the meaning and use of the term medieval, have dominated the study of the period. Important though these concerns are, what underpins them, and something that is rarely considered, is how sources and methodolog…
One Size Does Not Fit All
The last three decades have witnessed renewed interest in archaeological studies of Buddhism in South Asia. As a result, it is now generally accepted that the activities that took place at Buddhist sites, and the relationships between monastic communities and wider society, did not necessarily conform to the orthodox picture of Buddhism received from their texts. Ironically, however, many of these more ‘heterodox’ approaches to the study of Buddh…
Julia Shaw. Buddhist landscapes in Central India
Julia Shaw. Buddhist landscapes in Central India: Sanchi Hill and archaeologies of religious and social change, c. third century BC to fifth century AD. 360 pages, 60 figures, 231 plates, 20 tables. 2007. London: British Association for South Asian Studies; 978-0-9553924-4-3 hardback £ 25. - Volume 86 Issue 333
Buddhist Stupas in South Asia
Approaches to the Study of Buddhist Stupas, Jason Hawkes & Akira Shimada Chapter 2. The Archaeology of Stupas: Constructing Buddhist Identity in the Colonial Period, Himanshu Prabha Ray Chapter 3. The Colonial History of Sculptures from the Amaravati Stupa, Jennifer Howes Chapter 4. Relics of the Buddha: Body, Essence, Text, Michael Willis Chapter 5. The Power of Proximity: Creating and Venerating Shrines in Indian Buddhist Narratives, Andy Rotma…
Bharhut
India in Africa
Archaeological approaches to the study of Indian Ocean connections tend to focus on “foreign” objects that appear in different contexts. In East Africa, these objects are found at settlements on what would become the Swahili coast, and they show that these settlements were linked to Indian Ocean networks from as early as the 7th century AD. The limited quantities of these remains mean that these earliest connections are difficult to see; they bec…
Back to basics
In this article we advocate a return to the consideration and examination of the basic building blocks of archaeological enquiry: the evidence. Reacting to a widely held perception that archaeology now understands various commonalities of human experience, we suggest that such concepts and the inevitable oscillation towards “big picture” approaches that stems from them are problematic. They engender a type of scholarship that does not always enga…
Multi-Period Regional Survey Data from Vidarbha, Maharashtra, India
Presented here are the data collected during regional surveys of Vidarbha, India, which were collected to reconstruct the societal and cultural changes that took place in this region during the mid-first millennium CE. Following an overview of the data and their research context, we describe the methods that were used to collect, process and analyse them. This is accompanied by a critical assessment of the factors that constrained the survey and …
A Typology of Practice
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 inter-regional comparison, and impedes a m…
Ever the Handmaid? A Consideration of What a Medieval Archaeology in South Asia Might Be
This article shifts discussion of the medieval in South Asia away from conversations about ‘what’ took place towards ‘how’ it is studied. Following a brief review of what defines the South Asian medieval, this article starts with the premise that the entire period has not been studied archaeologically and that there is a great deal of potential in doing so. This potential is explored with reference to recent work in Central India, which has inves…
Accepting Variation and Embracing Uncertainty
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 …
Report of the Archaeological Survey of Chamak and its Surroundings, District Amaravati, Maharashtra
This report presents the results of a short programme of fieldwork targeted towards the investigation of the archaeological and geographical setting of the Chamak copperplate charter. This inscription, unearthed in the modern village of Chamak in 1868, records the grant of land to a group of Brahmins living in the village of ‘Charmaka’. These have long been assumed to be the same place, but the archaeological contexts of the find spot of the char…
One Size Does Not Fit All
The last three decades have witnessed renewed interest in archaeological studies of Buddhism in South Asia. As a result, it is now generally accepted that the activities that took place at Buddhist sites, and the relationships between monastic communities and wider society, did not necessarily conform to the orthodox picture of Buddhism received from their texts. Ironically, however, many of these more ‘heterodox’ approaches to the study of Buddh…
Bharhut
Buddhist Stupas in South Asia
Approaches to the Study of Buddhist Stupas, Jason Hawkes & Akira Shimada Chapter 2. The Archaeology of Stupas: Constructing Buddhist Identity in the Colonial Period, Himanshu Prabha Ray Chapter 3. The Colonial History of Sculptures from the Amaravati Stupa, Jennifer Howes Chapter 4. Relics of the Buddha: Body, Essence, Text, Michael Willis Chapter 5. The Power of Proximity: Creating and Venerating Shrines in Indian Buddhist Narratives, Andy Rotma…
Julia Shaw. Buddhist landscapes in Central India
Julia Shaw. Buddhist landscapes in Central India: Sanchi Hill and archaeologies of religious and social change, c. third century BC to fifth century AD. 360 pages, 60 figures, 231 plates, 20 tables. 2007. London: British Association for South Asian Studies; 978-0-9553924-4-3 hardback £ 25. - Volume 86 Issue 333
Finding the “Early Medieval” in South Asian Archaeology
The concept of an “early medieval” period (c. 600–1300 c.e. ) in the study of South Asia’s past is well established, yet remains ill defined and poorly understood. As a result, debates regarding grand explanative frameworks, not to mention the meaning and use of the term medieval, have dominated the study of the period. Important though these concerns are, what underpins them, and something that is rarely considered, is how sources and methodolog…
One Size Does Not Fit All
The last three decades have witnessed renewed interest in archaeological studies of Buddhism in South Asia. As a result, it is now generally accepted that the activities that took place at Buddhist sites, and the relationships between monastic communities and wider society, did not necessarily conform to the orthodox picture of Buddhism received from their texts. Ironically, however, many of these more ‘heterodox’ approaches to the study of Buddh…
India in Africa
Archaeological approaches to the study of Indian Ocean connections tend to focus on “foreign” objects that appear in different contexts. In East Africa, these objects are found at settlements on what would become the Swahili coast, and they show that these settlements were linked to Indian Ocean networks from as early as the 7th century AD. The limited quantities of these remains mean that these earliest connections are difficult to see; they bec…
Report of the Archaeological Survey of Chamak and its Surroundings, District Amaravati, Maharashtra
This report presents the results of a short programme of fieldwork targeted towards the investigation of the archaeological and geographical setting of the Chamak copperplate charter. This inscription, unearthed in the modern village of Chamak in 1868, records the grant of land to a group of Brahmins living in the village of ‘Charmaka’. These have long been assumed to be the same place, but the archaeological contexts of the find spot of the char…
A Typology of Practice
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 inter-regional comparison, and impedes a m…
Chapter 15 Paithan Excavation
Kennet, Derek, Hawkes, Jason and Willis, Michael. "Chapter 15: Paithan Excavation: Historical, Archaeological, Geographical and Epigraphical Contexts." In Excavations at Paithan, Maharashtra: Transformations in Early Historic and Early Medieval India, 324-335. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110653540-015\n\n \n\nGupta. \nHindu Tempel. \nHindu temple\n\nLandwirtschaft. \nVakataka. \nagriculture. \narchaeology. \nRELI…
Accepting Variation and Embracing Uncertainty
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 …
Bridget Allchin
Multi-Period Regional Survey Data from Vidarbha, Maharashtra, India
Presented here are the data collected during regional surveys of Vidarbha, India, which were collected to reconstruct the societal and cultural changes that took place in this region during the mid-first millennium CE. Following an overview of the data and their research context, we describe the methods that were used to collect, process and analyse them. This is accompanied by a critical assessment of the factors that constrained the survey and …
Back to basics
In this article we advocate a return to the consideration and examination of the basic building blocks of archaeological enquiry: the evidence. Reacting to a widely held perception that archaeology now understands various commonalities of human experience, we suggest that such concepts and the inevitable oscillation towards “big picture” approaches that stems from them are problematic. They engender a type of scholarship that does not always enga…
An Immaterial Problem
India is famous as a land of cloth. Yet for much of India’s historical past, the ways textiles were made and used, and their wider cultural and societal dimensions, are poorly understood. Most of what we know about them is gleaned from texts, but they have not been studied archaeologically. This is in contrast to archaeologies of earlier pre- and proto-historic periods, which are more materially grounded and draw on a range of proxies in examinin…
Ever the Handmaid? A Consideration of What a Medieval Archaeology in South Asia Might Be
This article shifts discussion of the medieval in South Asia away from conversations about ‘what’ took place towards ‘how’ it is studied. Following a brief review of what defines the South Asian medieval, this article starts with the premise that the entire period has not been studied archaeologically and that there is a great deal of potential in doing so. This potential is explored with reference to recent work in Central India, which has inves…
Grounding texts and theories of societal change
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 co…
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