From Stone Quarry to Sculpturing Workshop: A Report on the Archaeological Investigations Around Chunar, Varanasi & SarnathThe recognitior of ancient stone quarries at chunar hills with dateble epigraphs was a startling discovery made by the author of this book, in the year 1990. the followup archaological field investigations around chunar and Varanasi, which were carried out between the years 1990 and 1994, have uncovered the entire process of stone carving which was prevalent during the historical period in the Ganga plains. Besides archaeological investigations, ethnological surveys were also carried out. As a result of which it has been possible, start from quarrying of stone carving process, start from quarrying of stone blocks, their transportation to the centres of utility-carving of the sculpturing centres and the main religious centres etc. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Quarry Area | 12 |
Exploration of route of transportation | 110 |
Copyright | |
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ancient quarries appears Asapur Asokan B.N. Mukherjee Banaras Hindu University bangle basin Black Polished Ware Black Slipped Ware bowl BOWL Type centre chiselling Chunar hills circa cm in diameter convex count-marks Cutting B1 Cutting G2 Delhi deposit Depth digs dressed blocks Durga-khoh engraved epigraphs Excavations featureless rim fragment Ganga plains Grey Ware groove Group S.No Hastinapur inscribed Inscription Jayaswal Kausambi Kharoshti kilometres Kotwa Kushana L-R east L-R west Layer Length Diameter lithic Location Size cm Mauryan medium fabric Nagari Script nala neck Northern Black Polished noteworthy Period II PLATE Pottery from Period Prahladpur quarries quarry marks Rajghat Narain reported from Period river Ganga sandstone Sarnath Sarnath Museum sculpturing second century A.D. settlements sherd sides Singh Sinha slabs specimen square metres Sravasti stone carving surface Survey of India T.N. Roy Table terracotta Tilmanpur transportation Type unfinished Vaisali Varanasi vase workshops