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Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Council for Historical
Research (KCHR) and British Museum in London have been chosen for
the International Partnership award-2010 by the British Academy for
a research collaboration focussing on ancient maritime trade links
between Kerala and the West.
The award carries a grant of 30,000
British pounds to do research on "Indian Ocean Trade: The
Archaeology of Technology" jointly by Dr Roberta Tomber of the
British Museum and Prof PJ Cherian, Diector KCHR), a KCHR release
said today.
The study will be linked to the ongoing archaeological research at
the ancient maritime town of Muziris, famed in history as ''Crangannore''
for centuries, which was once a bustling international spice trade
hub on Kerala coast.
The research on the ancient trade port
which had links with Roman and much of the Mediterranean trade
mercantile centres had been going on for the last few years based
around Pattanam in Ernakulam district.
The excavations have yielded a lot of tangible evidences like shards
of Roman amphora. Pattanam excavation have become the springboard
for extensive studies and investigation into topics like the culture
and technology of Indian Ocean trade through the themes of maritime
technology, pottery and personal adornment, it said.
The grant will be utilised over the next three years to hold three
research workshops at KCHR. The workshops will be particularly
directed towards training of Indian students and researchers.
The artifacts will be examined by a
multi-disciplinary team of international experts and they will
undertake an ethno-archaeology survey to understand the
technological history of the items.
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