Puratattva
No. 41 (2011)
IAS CENTRE MUSEUM IHCS HH

No.41

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Obituaries
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Editorial xix
ARTICLES

Changing Perspectives of the Indus Civilization: New Discoveries and Challenges
Jonathan Mark Kenoyer 1

Gujarat Harappans: An Overview
V. H. Sonawane 19


Art Infuses life in Archaeology

G.B. Deglurkar 43

Changing Pattern of Lower Palaeolithic in South Asia and Recent Researches in Belan Valley (U.P) and Mid-Son Valley (M.P).
Radha Kant Varma 49

Geoarchaeology of Acheulian Sites in the Deccan Trap Region of the Upper Krishna Basin with Special Reference to Acheulian Site at Yedurwadi, Karnataka
Jayendra Joglekar, Sushama G. Deo, S.N. Rajaguru and Sheila Mishra 71


Environmental Backdrop of the Harappans in the Chautang Basin

Tejas Gorge 81

New Archaeology's Role in the Emergence of Quantitative Methods
K.Paddayya 105

Revisiting the Cultural Landscape of Junagadh in the Time of the Mauryas
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Nayanjot Lahiri 115

Early Coins and their Chronology in the Ganga - Yamuna Lower Doab
Sanju Shukla, J.N. Pandey, Ramabhilash Shukla, Anshu Goel and C.L. Dubey 131


Jain Metal Images at Sonagir-Sinaval (M.P.)

S. K. Dwivedi and Navneet Kumar Jain 142

Preliminary Archaeological Investigations of the Site Kotasur and its Adjoining Areas, District Birbhum, West Bengal
Sayan Bhattacharya and Sharmistha Chatterjee 149

A Preliminary Report on the Excavation at Wakav, Solapur District, Maharashtra (2010-2011)
P.P. Joglekar and Maya Patil-Shahapurkar 159

Excavations at Mitathal, District Bhiwani (Haryana) 2010-11: A Preliminary Report
Manmohan Kumar, Akinori Uesugi, V.S. Shinde, Vivek Dangi, Vijay Kumar, Sajjan Kumar, Arun K. Singh, Rajeev Mann and Rajesh Kumar 168

Influence of the Indian Cultural area in Ladakh in the 1st Millennium AD: The Rock Inscription Evidence
Laurianne Bruneau 179

NOTES & NEWS

A Stylo-Chrono Appraisal of the Torana in Nasik Cave-3

Ajit Kumar 191

Architecture and Iconography of Padhavali Gadhi Temple

Yashwant Singh and Sujata Gautam 198

Megalithic Anthropomorphs in Chittoor District, Andhra Pradesh: Significance to Archaeological and Geological Aspects

V. Ramabrahmam and K. Raghubabu 204

Oldest Sky-Chart with Supernova Record

Hrishikesh Joglekar, M. N. Vahia and Aniket Sule 207

A Unique Yaudheya Gold and Some Copper Coins with a New Legend

Devendra Handa 212

Reflections on the Ecological Aspect of Animals Depicted in Rock Art of Satpura-Tapti Valley and Nearby Region

Vineet Godhal and Ashis S. Shende 216

Newly Discovered Rare Icon of Ganesha from Shergarh, Baran District

Ambika Dhaka 224

Man's Earliest Ancestor Found? Primitive Creature Dubbed as Missing Link between 226 Apes and Humans

Times of India 226


BOOK REVIEWS 
228

From Harappa to Hastinapur
D.P. Agrawal

Excavations at Jhusi
Purushottam Singh

Kampil - Archaeological Study of a Site in the Ancient Kingdom of Panchala
B.R. Mani

Inter-regional Interaction and Urbanism in the Ancient Indus Valley, a Geologic Provenience Study of Harappan Rock and Mineral Assemblage
D.K. Chakrabarti

Prachin Yunan: Itihas Aur Sanskriti
K.N. Dikshit

Trees and Woodlands of South India
B.R. Mani and Vinay Kumar Gupta

Environmental History of Early India: A Reader
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O.P. Tandon

Bankura: A Study of its Archaeological Sources
S.S. Biswas

Antichak Excavations - 2 (1971 - 1981)
Amarendra Nath

Religion, Tradition and Ideology: Pre-colonial South India, Oxford Collected Essays
M.K. Pal

Rethinking Early Medieval India
Lakhan Mehrotra

Indian Zinc Technology in a Global Perspective
Manjil Hazarika

The Megalithic Culture of Manipur
Manjil Hazarika

Prachin Bharatiya Smarakon ka Sanrakshan Taknik evam Pravidhiyan
Goutami Bhattacharya


ACTIVITIES OF THE INDIAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 
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Report of The XLIV Annual Conference

National Seminar on Scientific Dating of Ancient Events Before 2000 BC, New Delhi

Kulbhushan Mishra 257

International Conference on The Prehistory of the Tibetan Plateau, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

Manjil Hazarika 261
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BALANCE SHEET 264
OFFICE-BEARERS 267
BOARD OF MANAGEMENT 268
PLATES


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