Mapping the Indo-Pacific Beads Vis-a-Vis Papanaidupet - Tapa dura

Mapping the Indo-Pacific Beads vis-a-vis Papanaidupet is not only about beads, bead production cycle, people involved in their manufacture, and traditional bead users, but also about the most important glass bead city of the world. The archaeological community has spent considerable time and energy in constructing ancient cities with bead workshops and has formulated many hypotheses about them. This is the first and last time that a bead city identical to those of 2,500 years old has been recorded ethnographically and visually in full details.

Dr Alok Kumar Kanungo, a faculty at IIT Gandhinagar, was born in Odisha and grew up in close contact with many tribal communities of eastern and north-eastern India. His early childhood experiences led him to eventually focus on archaeological and ethnographic studies or tribal and ancient technology.