Gurudakshina: Facets of Indian Archaeology : Essays Presented to Prof. V.N. MisraAlok Kumar Kanungo This volume is presented as a tribute to Prof. V. N. Misra (Misraji), one of the most respected archaeologists of India. The 17 contributions, all based on the revised doctoral research of scholars who completed their Ph.D. under the honorand's supervision, cover a time span from the Palaeolithic to the early historic period and treat regions across India, while one covers the early historic period of Bangladesh. Topics covered include lithic technology studies; topographic analyses of the subsistence strategies of hunter-gatherers and fishermen; discussion of ceramics, bone tools, rock art, cist burials and archaeometallurgical sites; reports from megalithic sites; accounts of settlement patterns in the context of landscape, soils, climate, water sources, flora and fauna; discussion of early maritime trade; archaeozoological analysis; reports of ethnoarchaeological field work and more. |
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Annotated Bibliography of Prof V N Misras | 31 |
A Morphometric Study of the Palaeolithic | 90 |
Early HunterGatherer Adaptations in the Jacob S Jaya Raj | 114 |
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Acheulian Agrawal agriculture Allahabad ancient ceramics Andhra Pradesh archaeological artefacts assemblage Bagor Balathal basins beads Belan valley Bhimbetka blades Bogra district Bricks and ancient burials Central India Chalcolithic cleavers Coarse cores culture Deccan College Delhi deposit Dhap Didwana district dune Early Historic Environment Ethnoarchaeology ethnographic evidence excavation faunal fish flakes Ganga Valley Ghosh Grey Ware handaxes Harappan hearths hills human hunter-gatherers hunting huts India Indian Archaeology iron Kharakwal Kols Kumaun large number layers located Lower Palaeolithic Madhya Pradesh Mallahs Mesolithic microlithic microlithic industry Middle Palaeolithic Musahars Neolithic Orissa paintings Palaeolithic period Palavoy phase Pleistocene Poona pots pottery prehistoric Protohistoric Pune quartzite rainfall Rajasthan raw material Red Ware region remains retouch river rock art rock shelters S.N. Rajaguru Sankalia season settlement patterns Sharma side scrapers Society South Stone Age surface Thar Desert Tilwara types University Upper Palaeolithic V.N. Misra Yanadi