ABIA: South and Southeast Asian Art and Archaeology Index
ABIA: South and Southeast Asian Art and Archaeology Index

Author: Sita Pieris

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2010-11-19

Total Pages: 897

ISBN-13: 9004191488

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Volume Three offers 1643 annotated records on publications regarding the art and archaeology of South Asia, Central Asia and Tibet selected from the ABIA Index database at www.abia.net which were published between 2002 and 2007.

Principles And Methods Of Archaeology
Principles And Methods Of Archaeology

Author: Dr. Govindu Surendra

Publisher: Academic Guru Publishing House

Published: 2023-12-22

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 8119843231

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The purpose of this book is to give a concise and easily reading introduction to the field of historical archaeology, which focuses on contemporary history across all of its intriguing geographical, cultural, and ethnic varieties. This book covers major methodologies and ideas in an approachable manner, including core theories as well as principles, the history of the profession, and basic terminology. This book discusses the fundamental aspects of archaeological study, such as time and space, survey and excavation procedures, and analytical techniques, and encourages readers to contemplate the many interpretations that might be attributed to artefacts. The book's viewpoint goes from the local to the global to emphasize the true relevance of the subject for the knowledge of the world in which people live today. This book examines the fundamental principles of effective evidentiary reasoning in archaeology by analyzing a range of cases that are considered either successful, disputed, or instructional failures. It explores how archaeologists establish temporary frameworks for investigation as they go, as well as how they effectively traverse the interdisciplinary connections that contribute to archaeology being a fruitful intellectual exchange platform. The book continues to be an excellent resource for readers who are interested in becoming acquainted with this fast-developing subject on a worldwide scale because of the engaging approach it takes to the subject matter.

The Archaeology of Rock-Art
The Archaeology of Rock-Art

Author: Christopher Chippindale

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 9780521576192

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Pictures, painted and carved in caves and on open rock surfaces, are amongst our loveliest relics from prehistory. This pioneering set of sparkling essays goes beyond guesses as to what the pictures mean, instead exploring how we can reliably learn from rock-art as a material record of distant times: in short, rock-art as archaeology. Sometimes contact-period records offer some direct insight about indigenous meaning, so we can learn in that informed way. More often, we have no direct record, and instead have to use formal methods to learn from the evidence of the pictures themselves. The book's eighteen papers range wide in space and time, from the Palaeolithic of Europe to nineteenth-century Australia. Using varied approaches within the consistent framework of informed and proven methods, they make key advances in using the striking and reticent evidence of rock-art to archaeological benefit.

Prehistoric Burials of Kashmir
Prehistoric Burials of Kashmir

Author: Arun Kumar Sharma

Publisher: Agam Kala Prakashan

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13:

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Kashmir Ocupies A Uniqe Position In The Development Of New Stone Age Culture In India. Excavations At Burzahom And Gulfkral Have Revealed Scores Of New Features Unparalled In Teh Sub-Continent. Large Number Of Human And Animal Burials Were Exposed At Burzahom During 1962-64 By The Author But The Report Remained Unpublished. It Is For The First Time That Such A Large Number Of Burials Pertaining To Neolithic Age Were Excavated At Once Site And Throughly Studied. The Present Book Gives A Detailed Description Of All The Burials Including Results Of Morphological Studies Conduccted On Human Skeletal Remains. The Results Bring Forth Not Only The Continuity Of This Culture Of The Valley For Nearly 2000 Years But Also Its Contact With Other Cultures Of The Time Of The Valley For Nearly 2000 Years But Also It Contact With Other Cultures Of The Time.

Archaeology and Conservation Along the Silk Road
Archaeology and Conservation Along the Silk Road

Author: Gabriela Krist

Publisher: Böhlau Wien

Published: 2022-05-23

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 3205215087

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The third international conference on "Archaeology and Conservation along the Silk Road" was met with as much enthusiasm as the earlier ones, with participants joining from near and far. The historic city of Tabriz, which once was the melting pot for cultures across the Silk Road(s), now as venue of this conference from 14–16 November 2018, facilitated dialogues to re-live, re-exchange and re-search the impact that Silk Road has had from then to now. Albeit a century-old topic of academic discourse, the Silk Road(s) continues to open up variety of new disciplinary and regional fronts; included in this volume. The Research Institute for Cultural Heritage and Tourism, Iran, collaborated with the Nanjing University, China, and the Institute of Conservation, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria, for this congress, which saw plenty of scientific studies on material heritage and their resultant significance in shaping the lifestyle and trade in different regions along the Silk Road(s).

The Archaeology of Indian Trade Routes Up to C. 200 BC
The Archaeology of Indian Trade Routes Up to C. 200 BC

Author: Nayanjot Lahiri

Publisher:

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13:

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This study explores the utilization of certain specific raw materials by archaeological cultures in different periods. Lahiri delineates the probable areas which could have supplied the raw materials to these cultures, and, on this basis, the essential direction of routes in and across distinct zones. The earliest proto-historic lines of movement--primarily confined to the north-western part of the Indian subcontinent--that developed in the period antecedent to the Harappan civilization are examined. So is the articulation of commerce and movement under the overarching socio-political authority of the Harappan urban phenomenon. The study also analyzes the opening out of the main and secondary arteries in inner India, i.e. across the Aravalli-Cambay divide, by examining the pattern of resource-use and resource-access of the less spectacular neolithic-chalcolithic cultural pockets, spread over large parts of the subcontinent from Kashmir to Tamil Nadu. In the context of the early historical period, an analysis of the literary image of the grand routes of Uttarapatha and Dakshinapatha, and their material correlates in the form of archaeological data scattered along these routes, are also presented.