Alok Kumar Kanungo
Biographic Data
| ID | 925391 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alok Kumar Kanungo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alok Kumar |
| FAMILY NAME | Kanungo |
| SIGNATURE | KANUNGO A K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Deccan College Post Graduate and Research Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7215-455X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Nagas
Living Traditions
Sacred Palm-leaf Beads
Sacred Palm-Leaf Beads, By Alok Kumar Kanungo (2000, 37:9-15)
Indian Ocean connections and regional trade
Archaeology of Organic Heritage
This paper outlines the ritual Nyiehzakhuo kuthou [the hanging of Nyiaza’s basket] of the Pochury Nagas of Anyuwie. This ritual is an annual propitiation of ancestors (living-dead) with food offerings in lieu of fertility, harvest, health, prosperity and good fortune. The combination of the ritual’s carefully crafted paraphernalia and observed taboos highlight the deep connection the Pochury Nagas maintain with their ancestors. This study explore…
Transformative Practices in Archaeology
The book introduces a diverse range of themes and practices relating to sustainable heritage management and explores the evolution of auto archaeology
Chronicles of Colonialism
Consolidation and Use of Anthropology for Colonization
Transformative Practices in Archaeology
Nagas and Megaliths
Elemental analysis of glass artifacts from Sarethi (India)
Luminescence and radiocarbon chronology of Bhagatrav
Excavation at the site of Bhagatrav yielded four layers of cultural deposits: the lowermost being the Sorath Harappan, the upper two are medieval, and layer three caps the Sorath Harappan layer. A horn-deity painted dish was found in a stratified context at the lowest level. The medieval deposit includes turquoise glazed and celadon wares, followed by an abundance of Monochrome Glazed Ware, which is otherwise known as Khambhat ware. The date of t…
Comparative microstructural and elemental analysis of iron artefacts from Kaveri valley archaeological sites
Iron has been one of the most critical technotraditions that had lasting impact on social formation throughout the Iron Age and historical period. Iron was used in warfare and subsistence economy. Our knowledge on ancient iron smelting and working have generally been derived from ethnography and ethnohistory, which is by all means, time, region, and raw material specific. Scientific analyses of ancient iron have contributed in understanding this …
Northern Black Polished Ware
In ancient India, complex technologies for forming and firing pottery were developed to meet the challenges of different types of clays and available fuels, as well as diverse cultural and ritual needs. Clays, slips, and firing processes were simultaneously customized through time and space, resulting in innovative region and period-specific specialized wares. While the knowledge of some pottery making traditions was passed from one generation to…
The Oxford Handbook of Global Indigenous Archaeologies
This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title w…
Glass Bangles in India
Since mid-second millennium BCE, glass bangles have been an item of mass consumption throughout South Asia. The archaeological community has spent considerable time and energy reconstructing ancient cities with evidence of glass making and/or glass working workshops and has formulated many hypotheses. The functional use of the kiln and the ways that different kinds of glass products, including bangle were produced is still shrouded in uncertainty…
Tracking ancient glass production in India
Ancient Glass of South Asia
Northern Black Polished Ware in Indian Archaeology
Recording Unmarked Graves in a Remote Aboriginal Community
The Radiocarbon Chronology of Kopia, an Early Glass Manufacturing Centre in India
Right from the time of the Painted Grey Ware (PGW) culture, dating to c. 1200–600 bce , more than 210 archaeological sites in India have provided evidence of glass, but there has been no attempt to date the glass‐yielding layers by radiometric techniques. This has hampered the establishment of a chronology for the beginning and evolution of glass‐making in India. The site of Kopia was excavated by the first author for three seasons from 2004 to 2…
Western Indian (Mewar) Chalcolithic Beads with Special Reference to Balathal
During the last few years, Indian archaeologists have concentrated their efforts on the investigation of sites of the 3rd to 2nd millennia B.C. in the Mewar region of western India. Unfortunately, most of the excavations have been focused on understanding the cultural sequence, settlement patterns, architecture, and pottery at the sites and have neglected the study of such important artifact categories as beads. As no final reports have been publ…
Naga Ornaments and the Indian Ocean
Naga communities in northeastern India and Myanmar have lived in isolation from the sea for centuries, but in their traditional ornaments they wear stone beads from the Gulf of Kutch and shells from the Bay of Bengal. Large-scale use of such cultural materials from the sea raises more questions than answers. There are many groups and sub-groups among the Nagas and each group/sub-group has its own unique traditional attire and ornaments, each elem…
Glass Beads in Ancient India and Furnace-Wound Beads at Purdalpur
Today glass beads are a major product of India from at least three different locations, using altogether different techniques. Each production process leaves behind debitage unique to its individual manufacturing process. Archaeologically, it is imperative to identify and record the production techniques of glass bead manufacture and to identify the various specific waste products rather than merely speaking of beads and production centers on the…
Bondo Beads
Tracking ancient glass production in India
Glass Beads in Ancient India and Furnace-Wound Beads at Purdalpur
Today glass beads are a major product of India from at least three different locations, using altogether different techniques. Each production process leaves behind debitage unique to its individual manufacturing process. Archaeologically, it is imperative to identify and record the production techniques of glass bead manufacture and to identify the various specific waste products rather than merely speaking of beads and production centers on the…
The Radiocarbon Chronology of Kopia, an Early Glass Manufacturing Centre in India
Right from the time of the Painted Grey Ware (PGW) culture, dating to c. 1200–600 bce , more than 210 archaeological sites in India have provided evidence of glass, but there has been no attempt to date the glass‐yielding layers by radiometric techniques. This has hampered the establishment of a chronology for the beginning and evolution of glass‐making in India. The site of Kopia was excavated by the first author for three seasons from 2004 to 2…
Glass Bangles in India
Since mid-second millennium BCE, glass bangles have been an item of mass consumption throughout South Asia. The archaeological community has spent considerable time and energy reconstructing ancient cities with evidence of glass making and/or glass working workshops and has formulated many hypotheses. The functional use of the kiln and the ways that different kinds of glass products, including bangle were produced is still shrouded in uncertainty…
Elemental analysis of glass artifacts from Sarethi (India)
Naga Ornaments and the Indian Ocean
Naga communities in northeastern India and Myanmar have lived in isolation from the sea for centuries, but in their traditional ornaments they wear stone beads from the Gulf of Kutch and shells from the Bay of Bengal. Large-scale use of such cultural materials from the sea raises more questions than answers. There are many groups and sub-groups among the Nagas and each group/sub-group has its own unique traditional attire and ornaments, each elem…
Beads Among the Juang of India
The Juang comprise a major primitive community in the state of Orissa in east-central India. Until relatively recently, they had a rich material culture. In particular, their dress and ornaments were very important to them. Today, only very old women wear beads and other ornaments in the traditional way, except on special occasions. This paper seeks to reconstruct the traditional costume of the Juang, with emphasis on the beads, and notes the cha…
Bondo Beads
Glass Beads in Ancient India and Furnace-Wound Beads at Purdalpur
Today glass beads are a major product of India from at least three different locations, using altogether different techniques. Each production process leaves behind debitage unique to its individual manufacturing process. Archaeologically, it is imperative to identify and record the production techniques of glass bead manufacture and to identify the various specific waste products rather than merely speaking of beads and production centers on the…
Western Indian (Mewar) Chalcolithic Beads with Special Reference to Balathal
During the last few years, Indian archaeologists have concentrated their efforts on the investigation of sites of the 3rd to 2nd millennia B.C. in the Mewar region of western India. Unfortunately, most of the excavations have been focused on understanding the cultural sequence, settlement patterns, architecture, and pottery at the sites and have neglected the study of such important artifact categories as beads. As no final reports have been publ…
Naga Ornaments and the Indian Ocean
Naga communities in northeastern India and Myanmar have lived in isolation from the sea for centuries, but in their traditional ornaments they wear stone beads from the Gulf of Kutch and shells from the Bay of Bengal. Large-scale use of such cultural materials from the sea raises more questions than answers. There are many groups and sub-groups among the Nagas and each group/sub-group has its own unique traditional attire and ornaments, each elem…
The Radiocarbon Chronology of Kopia, an Early Glass Manufacturing Centre in India
Right from the time of the Painted Grey Ware (PGW) culture, dating to c. 1200–600 bce , more than 210 archaeological sites in India have provided evidence of glass, but there has been no attempt to date the glass‐yielding layers by radiometric techniques. This has hampered the establishment of a chronology for the beginning and evolution of glass‐making in India. The site of Kopia was excavated by the first author for three seasons from 2004 to 2…
Ancient Glass of South Asia
Northern Black Polished Ware in Indian Archaeology
Recording Unmarked Graves in a Remote Aboriginal Community
The Oxford Handbook of Global Indigenous Archaeologies
This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title w…
Glass Bangles in India
Since mid-second millennium BCE, glass bangles have been an item of mass consumption throughout South Asia. The archaeological community has spent considerable time and energy reconstructing ancient cities with evidence of glass making and/or glass working workshops and has formulated many hypotheses. The functional use of the kiln and the ways that different kinds of glass products, including bangle were produced is still shrouded in uncertainty…
Tracking ancient glass production in India
Comparative microstructural and elemental analysis of iron artefacts from Kaveri valley archaeological sites
Iron has been one of the most critical technotraditions that had lasting impact on social formation throughout the Iron Age and historical period. Iron was used in warfare and subsistence economy. Our knowledge on ancient iron smelting and working have generally been derived from ethnography and ethnohistory, which is by all means, time, region, and raw material specific. Scientific analyses of ancient iron have contributed in understanding this …
Northern Black Polished Ware
In ancient India, complex technologies for forming and firing pottery were developed to meet the challenges of different types of clays and available fuels, as well as diverse cultural and ritual needs. Clays, slips, and firing processes were simultaneously customized through time and space, resulting in innovative region and period-specific specialized wares. While the knowledge of some pottery making traditions was passed from one generation to…
Transformative Practices in Archaeology
The book introduces a diverse range of themes and practices relating to sustainable heritage management and explores the evolution of auto archaeology
Chronicles of Colonialism
Consolidation and Use of Anthropology for Colonization
Transformative Practices in Archaeology
Nagas and Megaliths
Elemental analysis of glass artifacts from Sarethi (India)
Luminescence and radiocarbon chronology of Bhagatrav
Excavation at the site of Bhagatrav yielded four layers of cultural deposits: the lowermost being the Sorath Harappan, the upper two are medieval, and layer three caps the Sorath Harappan layer. A horn-deity painted dish was found in a stratified context at the lowest level. The medieval deposit includes turquoise glazed and celadon wares, followed by an abundance of Monochrome Glazed Ware, which is otherwise known as Khambhat ware. The date of t…
Nagas
Living Traditions
Sacred Palm-leaf Beads
Sacred Palm-Leaf Beads, By Alok Kumar Kanungo (2000, 37:9-15)
Indian Ocean connections and regional trade
Archaeology (18 works) · Geography (15 works) · History (13 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (11 works) · Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis (7 works) · Geology (7 works) · History (6 works) · Archaeological Research and Protection (5 works) · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation (5 works) · Sociology (5 works)