Puratattva
No. 35 (2004-05)
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Contents
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Editorial
vi
Felicitations to Prof. A.K. Narain ix
ARTICLES

Symbolic Approaches to the Study of Early Agropastoral Communities of Lower Deccan
K. Paddayya 1

Pre-Harappan Village Settlement and Early Farming Communities in Northern South Asia (c. 9th – 4th millennia BC)
B.R.Mani 7


Harappan Environment as One Variable in the Preponderance of Rhinoceros and Paucity of Horse

J. Manuel 21

A Study of Early Harappan Pottery Motifs
Anisha Saxena 27

Early Chalcolithic Ceramic Traditions of Gujarat
Preeti Panjwani 38


Baror: A New Harappan Site in Ghaggar Valley – A Preliminary Report

Urmila Sant, T.J. Baidya, N.G. Nikoshey, N.K. Sinha, S. Nayan, J.K. Tiwari and A. Arif 50

New Light on the Excavation of Harappan Settlement at Bhirrana
L.S. Rao, Nandini B. Sahu, Prabash Sahu, Samir Diwan and U.A. Shastry 60

Stylised Terracotta Animal Head with Horns from Bhirrana – Identification and Significance 		top
L.S. Rao 69

Dholavira’s Geometry: A Preliminary Study
Michel Danino 76


Chronological Assessment of the Bara Culture
K.C. Nauriyal 85

Salvaging the Vanishing Harappans in Haryana
Tejas Garge 94

Site Catchment Analysis of the Chalcolithic Settlement of Gilund in the Banas Basin
Debasri Dasgupta 102

Geoarchaeological Observations of Man Basin in Solarpur District, Maharastra
Sushma G. Deo, Shivaji Kshirsagar, S.N. Rajaguru, S.S. Hampre and P.P. Joglekar 111

Iron Objects from the Iron Age-Early Historic Level at Badmal
Pradeep K. Behera and Pranab K. Chattopadhyay 118

Excavation at Kopia 2005: A Preliminary Report
A.K. Kanungo and V.S. Shinde 126

A Stylo-Chrono Appraisal of Pitalkhora Sculptures
Ajit Kumar 135

Reflections on the Shikharas of Kalachuri Period Temples in Eastern Madhya Pradesh
A.K. Singh 143

Plant Remains from Excavation of Terraces of the Nile at Afyeh, Nubia and Egypt
K.A. Chowdhury and G.M. Buth 154

Notes and News

Palaeolithic Tools from Memom, Thiruvananthapuram District, Kerala
S. Vijayakumar 160

New Discovery of Mesolithic Sites in Lower Bheden Valley, Orissa
Jaya Shankar Naik 164

Neolithic Coastal Karnataka: An Assessment
C.B. Patil 167

The Excavation of a Neolithic Site at Lakhundi
R. Gopal and A. Sundara 170

Excavation of Kudachi: An Ashmound in Dist. Belgaum
S.V. Padiger and A. Sundara 172

Identification of Buddhist Sites in Trans-Ghaghra Plain
Vimal Tiwari 174

Significant Discoveries around Sudarshan Lake, Junagadh
Shubhra Pramanik 179

Excavations at Siyapur, District Kannauj
D.P. Tiwari and D.K. Srivastava 182

Excavations at Sanchankot, District Unnao, U.P. (2004-05)
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D.P. Tiwari and D.K. Srivastava 186

Excavations at Naurangabad, Haryana – 2000-01
P.B.S. Sengar 191

Historical Tripura in the Light of Excavations at Thakurani Tilla,, Pillak
G.C. Chauley 196

Shiva’s Fury with Special Reference to a Rare Relief Sculpture from Bhubaneshwar
M. Krishna Kumari 201

Newly Discovered Gupta Sculptures from Rangpur (Rajasthan)
Ambika Dhaka 205

Book Reviews 

B.B. Lal (with contribution from Palaeobotanist K.S. Saraswat). The Homeland of the Aryans: Evidence of Rigvedic Flora and Fauna & Archaeology
S.P. Gupta 209

Bhagwan Singh, Bharatiya Sabhyata ki Nirmiti
S.P. Gupta 213

Birendra Pratap Singh. Early Faming Communities of the Kaimur
P.K. Trivedi 213

Rewant Vikram Singh. Settlements in the Yamuna-Hindon Doab: An Archaeological Perspective
Arun Kesarwani 214

D.P. Tiwari. Excavations at Saunphari and Explorations in Ganga Plain
S.P. Gupta 215

Vimala Begley et al. (Eds). The Ancient Port of Arikamedu-New Excavations and Research
T. Arun Raj 216

Alok Tripathi (Ed.) Remote Sensing and Archaeology 		top
Arun Kesarwani 217

P.P. Joglekar, V.D. Misra, J.N. Pal and M.C. Gupta. Mesolithic Mahadaha: The Faunal Remains
P. Ajithprasad 218

Michael Witzel. ‘Ein Fremdling im Rigveda’. In Journal of Indo-European Studies
Vishal Agrawal 221

INDEX TO PURATATTVA NOS. 24-34
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Annual Report
Report of the XXXVIII Annual Conference of India Archaeological Society held at the State Department of Archaeology, Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow, from 28th to the 31st of December, 2004 247

THE INDIAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY-A BRIEF
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Balance Sheet
256
Office Bearers 258
Board of Management 259
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