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Beads, social change and interaction between India and South-east Asia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Bérénice Bellina
Bérénice Bellina*
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Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle, Paris III, France, (Email: [email protected])
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Abstract

The author shows how technical studies of beads made of agate and carnelian are informative indicators of social conditions and contacts between regions. The beads in question throw new light on the relations between India and South-east Asia in the first millennium BC.

Keywords

Iron AgeSouth-east AsiaacculturationdiffusionIndianisation
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Research
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Antiquity , Volume 77 , Issue 296 , June 2003 , pp. 285 - 297
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2003

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