1. Introduction / K.S. Mathew -- 2. Reconstructing networks of trade and exchange in the Indian Ocean during the early historic period : case studies from Anuradhapura (Sri Lanka) / Robin Coningham, Mark Manuel and Jo Shoebridge -- 3. Local networks and long-distance trade : the role of the exchanges between Sri Lanka and India during the Mediterranean trade / Ariane de Saxce -- 4. From the Mediterranean to South Asia : the odyssey of an Indiana merchant in Roman times / Steven E. Sidebotham -- 5. Wars, trade and treaties : new, revised and neglected sources for the political, diplomatic, and military aspectss of Imperial Rome's relations with the Red Sea Basin and India, from Augustus to Diocletian / Michael A. Speidel -- 6. Roman ports on the Red Sea and their contacts with Africa, Arabia and South Asia : Acient literary and recent archaeological evidence / Steven E. Sidebotham -- 7. The port of Sumhuram (Khor Rori) : new data on its history / Alessandra Avanzini -- 8. South Arabian pottery outside South Arabia / Vittoria Buffa -- 9. Maritime trade contacts of Odisha, East Coast of India, with the Roman world : an appraisal / Sila Tripati, Sunil Kumar Patnaik and Gopal Charan Pradhan -- 10. Assessing the early historic Indian Ocean trade through ceramics / K. Krishnan and R. Ballavally -- 11. Ancient ports of Kerala : an overview / V. Selvakumar -- 12. International maritime trade : evidences from Vizhinjam excavations, South Kerala / Ajit Kumar. [et al.] -- 13. Examining the Hinterland and Foreland of the Port of Muziris in the wider perspective of the subcontinent's long-distance networks / Ranabir Chakravarti -- 14. Muziris and the trajectories of maritime trade in the Indian Ocean in the first millennium CE / Pius Malekandathil -- 15. A Muziris export : Schidai or ivory trimmings / Federico de Romanis -- 16. The Roman pottery from Pattanam / Roberta Tomber -- 17. Money matters : indigenous and foreign coins in the Malabar Coast (second century BCE-second century CE) / Susmita Basu Majumdar.