Puratattva
No. 7 (1974-75)
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Contents
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Editorial 1
Articles


Archaeological and Ethnographic Evidence for the Hafting and Use of Microliths and Related Tools

V. N. Misra

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Misra suggests that microliths were used as elements of composite tools, after being hafted in wood or bone handles.


A Techno-Typological Review of the Middle Paleaeolithic Cultures of India

Vidula Jayaswal

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Jayaswal proposes a comparative study of the proportion of various-types and blank detaching techniques for Middle Paleaeolithic Cultures.


Recent Archaeological Discoveries in North-Eastern India

T. C. Sharma

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Sharma reports on recent Lower Palaeolithic sites discovered in North-East India.


Some Aspects of the Archaeological Evidence Relating to the Indus Script

B. B. Lal

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Lal gives his observation on Indus script, especially on the seals, sealings and inscribed pottery from Kalibangan. 


On the Origin of the Harappan Sign

B. M. Pande

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Pande analyses Harappan signs to understand the relative frequency, juxtaposition of symbols, formation of blocks and contextual occurrence. 


Surkotada : A Chronological Assessment

Jagat Pati Joshi

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Joshi makes a chronological assessment of the Harappan settlement at Surkotada placing it within 2300 to 1750 BC.


Subsistence Pattern of an Early Farming Community of Western India

M. K. Dhavalikar and Gregory L. Possehl

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Dhavalikar and Possehl assess from their study of Chalcolithic Inangaon that the farming communities cultivated black cotton soil in the absence of iron tools.


Functional Significance of the O.C.P. and P.G.W. Shapes and Associated Objects

H. D. Sankalia

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Sankalia suggests that there is an urgent need to fill the gap between the first and second urbanization in India by unearthing a full fledged PGW culture.


Two Urbanizations in India : A Side Study in their Social Structure

S. P. Gupta

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Gupta perceives a vocational class system in the social structure of the first and second urbanizations in India.

Notes and News		 top

Problems of the Neolithic Cultures in India : a Retrospect
B. K. Thapar 61

Harappan Chronology : an Integrated Study
S. B. Roy 65

On the Calibration of C14 Dates
D. P. Agrawal and Sheela Kusumgar 70


Comments on C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky's paper on 'Trade Mechanisms in Indus-Mesopotamian Interrelations'
Dilip K. Chakrabarti 74

Evidence of Horse from the Harappan Settlement at Surkotajda
A. K. Sharma 75

The Domestic Animals in the Early Cultures of India
Roswitha Conrad 76

Ancient Plant Economy at Noh, Rajasthan
Vishnu-Mittre and R. Savithri 77

Megaliths in Yemen Arab Republic
A. Ghosh 81


Cairn Burials of Baluchistan, Makran and South-east Iran : their Character and Chronology
K. S. Ramachandran 82

Some Theoretical Aspects of Early Indian Urban Growth
Dilip K. Chakrabarti 87

Early Historical Urban Growth in India : Some Observations
M. C. Joshi 90


Stratigraphical Position of the N.B.P. Ware in the Upper Ganga Basin and its Date
M. D. N. Sahi 91

A Note on Some Ancient Indian Mirrors
C. Margabandhu 94

The Domestic Art Delineated in the Gandhara Reliefs
K. Krishna Murthy 96

Anthropomorphic Ornaments in Early Indian Sculpture
Himanshu Prabha Suran 103

Pella : where Alexander the Great was Born
S. D. Dogra 106

Book Reviews

A. Ghosh : The City in Early Historical India (Simla, 1973)
D. D. Sankalia 108


C.S. Antonini and G. Stacul : The Proto-historic Graveyards of Swat (Pakistan),
(Rome, 1972)
D. P. Aggarwal 110

D. Mandal : Radiocarbon Dates and Indian Archaeology (Allahabad, 1972)
D. P. Aggrawal 111

Purushottam Singh : Burial Practices in Ancient India (Varanasi, 1970)
M. C. Joshi 112

S.B. Deo and J.P. Joshi : Pauni Excavations (1969-70) (Nagpur, 1972)
S. P. Gupta 113

B.P.Sinha (ed.) : Potteries in Ancient India (Patna)
B. M. Pande 113

Amita Ray : Art of Nepal (New Delhi, 1973)
B. M. Pande 115


Dharampal : Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century (Delhi, 1971)
M. C. Joshi 117


Smita J. Baxi and Vinod P. Dwivedi : Modern Musuem, Organisation and Practice in India (New Delhi, 1973)
B. M. Pande 118




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