Children playing and learning: Crafting ceramics in ancient Indor Khera

Asian Perspectives

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 85-109

  Menon, Jaya ^a   Varma, Supriya ^b  

^a ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Ceramic production; Children; India; Indor Khera; Learning; Miniature vessels; Playing; Upper Ganga Plains

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; ASYMMETRY; CERAMICS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; LEARNING; PLAY;

GANGETIC PLAIN; INDIA;

EID: 80051485418     PISSN: 00668435     EISSN: 15358283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/asi.2010.0006     Document Type: Article

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