Puratattva
No. 36 (2005-06)
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Contents

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Editorial

Felicitations to Shri M.N. Deshpande
ARTICLES

Archaeological Theory: A Perspective from outside the Western Academy
Nayanjot Lahiri 1

Interpretation in Indian Stone Age Archaeology: A Reappraisal
D.K. Bhattacharya 12


Aryan Agro-Pastoralists in the Ganga Valley

M.K. Dhavalikar 24

The Interaction Networks of Pre/Early-Harappan Gujarat
Shweta Sinha-Deshpande 30

Bhirrana Excavation - 2005-06
L.S. Rao, Nandini B. Sahu, U.A. Shastry, Prabash Sahu and Samir Diwan 45


Interpreting Rock Art

Urmi Ghosh and V.H. Sonawane 50

The Harappan Spoked Wheels Rattled Down the Streets of Bhirrana, Dist. Fatehabad, Haryana
L.S. Rao 59

Further Excavations at Lahuradewa, District Sant Kabir Nagar (U.P.) 2005-06: Preliminary Observations
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Rakesh Tewari, R.K. Srivastava, K.K. Singh and K.S. Saraswat 68

Excavations at Abhaipur 2005-06, District Pilibhit, Uttar Pradesh
Anup Mishra and U.P. Arora 76


Excavations at Ramnagar: Discovery of a Supporting Settlement of Ancient Varanasi

Vidula Jayaswal and Manoj Kumar 85

Anai: A Settlement in the Varuna Region
Vibha Tripathi and Prabhakar Upadhyay 93

Excavation at Kopia 2006: A Preliminary Report
A.K. Kanungo 103

The Copper Hoard Culture of the Indo-Gangetic Plains: A Mystery Unravelled
S. Vijayakumar 112

An Archaeological Study along the Damodar-Ajay Interfluve in West Bengal (Circa AD Ninth to Fifteenth Centuries)
R.K. Chattopadhyay, Rajat Sanyal and Sharmila Saha 117

A Group of Temples at Kalna
S.S. Biswas 132

Evidence of Dental Palaeopathology and Diagenesis in the A.P. Khatri Collection of Fossil Vertebrates in the Indraprastha Museum, New Delhi
Vijay Sathe 137

Genetics and the Aryan Debate
Michel Danino 146

On Perceiving Aryan Migrations in Vedic Ritual Texts
Vishal Agarwal 155

Excavations at Sanauli 2005-06: A Harappan Necropolis in the Upper Ganga-Yamuna Doab
D.V. Sharma, K.C. Nauriyal and V.N. Prabhakar 166

Materials and Techniques of Wall Paintings of Rajasthan
Om Prakash Agrawal and Rashmi Pathak 180

Course of Vedic River Saraswati as Deciphered from Latest Satellite Data
J.R. Sharma, A.K. Gupta and B.K. Bhadra 187

Notes and News

Recent Exploration of Harappan Sites in District Rohtak, Haryana

Manmohan Kumar 196

Camps of the Early Settlers in the Sub-Basins of the Chambal River, Rajasthan – An Observation

Sangita Chakraborty and Nayan Anand Chakraborty 205

Excavations at Chandimau 2000-01

Niraj Kumar Sinha and Jalaj Kumar Tiwari 211

Subsistence Pattern in Mesolithic Communities of India

Neelima Pandey 217

Copper Artifacts from Bagasra (Gola Dhora), a Harappan Site of Gujarat, Western India

Ambika Patel 222

Discovery of a Unique Wooden Seal from Khaparkhera, District Dhar, Madhya Pradesh

S.B. Ota 232

Discovery of Pictorial-cum-Epigraphic Depictions of Performing Local Rituals of the Ancient Magadha by the Traders/Travellers from Gandhara Region

A.K. Prasad 235

Fresh Investigations in Early Chronology of Nalanda

B.R. Mani 240

Faunal Remains from Agiabir, Dt. Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh

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Arati Deshpande-Mukherjee, P.K. Thomas, Purushottam Singh and A.K. Singh 248

Cupule Occurrences in Goa

Rohini Pandey and Abhijit Ambekar 254

Parvati’s Penance: an Unnoticed Sculpture from Bengal
Gautam Sengupta 257

Recent Discovery of a Chariot Shaped Shrine at Nalanda
P.K. Mishra 262

Contemporary Indian and Ancient Iranian Bracelet (Kada): A Comparison
Gholamreza Karamian, Shahida Ansari and Vasant Shinde 264

Animal Representation in the Rock Art of Chotanagpur Plateau
Mukta Raut Dey 268

New Copper Hoards from Rajasthan
Ambika Dhaka 272

Application of Remote Sensing in Archaeology with Special Reference to Study of Palaeochannels of River Varuna in Varanasi District, Uttar Pradesh
Santosh Kumar 276

Understanding the Post-depositional Bone Modification Processes: An Actualistic Approach
C.V. Sharada and P.P. Joglekar 280

Neolithic axe from South Kerala
P. Rajendran and V.L. Divya 288

Book Reviews 

Kanungo, Alok Kumar (Ed.) 2005 Gurudakshina: Facets of Indian Archaeology – Essays Presented to Prof. V.N. Misra
S.P. Gupta

Dhavalikar, M.K. 2002 Environment and Culture: A Historical Perspective
K.N. Dikshit

Singh, B.P. and A.K. Singh, Excavations at Sarai Mohana 1967-68 (A Satellite Settlement of Ancient Varanasi)
B.R. Mani

Mitra, Debala (Ed.) Exploration in Art and Archaeology of South Asia-Essays dedicated to N.G. Majumdar
K.N. Dikshit

Haque, Enamul 2001 Chandraketugarh: A Treasure-House of Bengal Terracottas
B.R. Mani

Srivastava, Gyanendra Nath 2006 Ancient Settlement Pattern in Orissa (With special reference to Bhubaneswar)
Arundhati Banerji

Chhattopadhya, B.D., Gautam Sengupta and Shambhu Chakrabarty (Eds.) 2005 Annotated Archaeological Atlas of West Bengal, Vol. I,
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K.N. Dikshit

Banerjee, Arundhati (Ed.) 2006 Hari Smriti Studies: Art, Archaeology, and Indology
S.S. Biswas

Soundararajan, K.V. 2006 Nagarjunakonda (1954-60)
K.N. Dikshit

Wakankar, V.S. 2005 Painted Rock Shelter of India
Mukta Raut Dey

Pande, B.M. 2006 Qutub Minar and its Monuments. Monumental Legacy Series
Nayanjot Lahiri

Lal, Krishna 2006 Peacock in Indian Art, Thought and Literature
K.N. Dikshit

Mani, Chandro Mauli 2005 A Journey through India’s Past
I.M. Tripathi

Mushrif-Tripathy, Veena and S.R. Walimbe 2006 Human Skeletal Remains from Chalcolithic Nevasa
S.P. Gupta

Jain, V.K. 2006 Prehistory and Protohistory of India – An Appraisal
Mukta Raut Dey

Annual Report
Report of the XXXIX Annual Conference of Indian Archaeological Society held at M.H. Krishna Institute of Indology, Bangalore from 15th – 18th December, 2005 304

SOCIETY'S ACTIVITIES

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Award of Scholarship
Workshop on Buddhist Art ans Archaeology
Report on Archaeological Investigations along the Kerala Coast

Balance Sheet

311
Office Bearers 313
Board of Management 313
Plates 315


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