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Sembiran: the beginnings of Indian contact with Bali

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

I. Wayan Ardika  and
Peter Bellwood
Peter Bellwood
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Department of Prehistory & Anthropology, The Australian National University, GPO Box 4, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
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In Classical times, the Indian continent was central to a trading network that ran west to the Mediterranean world revolving round Rome: despite its name, the Mediterranean was not the centre of the known world. Another world opened eastwards from India, and there are many obscure references to its eastern fringes, Now a series of finds from Bali, in the Indonesian archipelago, gives the elusive direct connection of Indian traders to that farther East.

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Antiquity , Volume 65 , Issue 247 , June 1991 , pp. 221 - 232
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1991

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