Studies in Indian Archaeology
Author: Hasmukhlal Dhirajlal Sankalia
Publisher: Popular Prakashan
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780861320882
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Bureaucratic Archaeology
Author: Ashish Avikunthak
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-10-31
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 1009082000
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBureaucratic Archaeology is a multi-faceted ethnography of quotidian practices of archaeology, bureaucracy and science in postcolonial India, concentrating on the workings of Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). This book uncovers an endemic link between micro-practice of archaeology in the trenches of the ASI to the manufacture of archaeological knowledge, wielded in the making of political and religious identity and summoned as indelible evidence in the juridical adjudication in the highest courts of India. This book is a rare ethnography of the daily practice of a postcolonial bureaucracy from within rather than from the outside. It meticulously uncovers the social, cultural, political and epistemological ecology of ASI archaeologists to show how postcolonial state assembles and produces knowledge. This is the first book length monograph on the workings of archaeology in a non-western world, which meticulously shows how theory of archaeological practice deviates, transforms and generates knowledge outside the Euro-American epistemological tradition.
Recent Studies in Indian Archaeology
Author: K. Paddayya
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIllustrations: Numerous B/w Illustrations & Maps Description: This volume contains papers contributed by senior scholars from both India and abroad who have first-hand and longstanding experience in Indian archaeology. The papers aim to synthesize existing knowledge on major topics in Indian archaeology. These topics cover prehistory, proto-history, rock art, historical and medieval archaeology, scientific studies, human skeletal biology and dating methods. While serving as comprehensive reviews on the retrospective topics, these essays will also fulfill the purpose of highlighting the gaps in our current knowledge and help plan further research to fill them up.
Studying Early India
Author: Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 1843311321
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA focal study of the methodological changes that confront historians of pre-colonial India.
Indigenous Archaeology
Author: Joe Watkins
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Published: 2001-01-17
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0759117098
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs a practicing archaeologist and a Choctaw Indian, Joe Watkins is uniquely qualified to speak about the relationship between American Indians and archaeologists. Tracing the often stormy relationship between the two, Watkins highlights the key arenas where the two parties intersect: ethics, legislation, and archaeological practice. Watkins describes cases where the mixing of indigenous values and archaeological practice has worked well—and some in which it hasn't—both in the United States and around the globe. He surveys the attitudes of archaeologists toward American Indians through an inventive series of of hypothetical scenarios, with some eye-opening results. And he calls for the development of Indigenous Archaeology, in which native peoples are full partners in the key decisions about heritage resources management as well as the practice of it. Watkins' book is an important contribution in the contemporary public debates in public archaeology, applied anthropology, cultural resources management, and Native American studies.
An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology
Author: Amalananda Ghosh
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 9789004092648
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology" is a significant reference work on archaeology in India. It is an authoritative work of permanent value in which the knowledge and expertise of Indian archaeologists from the Archaeological Survey of India, universities and other institutes have been pooled together under the editorship of the late A. Ghosh, former Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India. The "Encyclopaedia" has been planned in an ambitious manner; it is not merely an alphabetical listing of entries with sketchy information on topics. Volume 1, which deals with certain broad subjects relating to Indian Archaeology, is divided into twenty chapters, alphabetically arranged. Each chapter is further divided into sections and subsections containing independent and self-contained essays. For example, in the chapter on "Cultures," detailed information can be found on various cultures in India; the chapter on "Basis of dating" contains articles on archaeological dating, archaeomagnetic dating, 14C radio-carbon dating, numismatic dating, palaeographic and epigraphic dating, thermoluminescent dating, etc. For those interested in getting further information on the subjects and in looking into the original sources and references, each entry also carries an exhaustive bibliography. Volume II is the Gazetteer. It contains basic data and information on all the explored and excavated sites in India along with reference to published reports and/or notices on each.
Methodological Issues in Indian Archaeology
Author: K. Paddayya
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9788173055805
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Oxford Handbook of Maritime Archaeology
Author: Alexis Catsambis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014-02
Total Pages: 1234
ISBN-13: 0199336008
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title is a comprehensive survey of maritime archaeology as seen through the eyes of nearly fifty scholars at a time when maritime archaeology has established itself as a mature branch of archaeology.
The Archaeology of Ancient Indian Cities
Author: Dilip K. Chakrabarti
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780195641745
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Book Offers A Definitive Archaeological Perspective On The History Of Early Urban Growth In India. It Does This By Looking At Both Protohistoric And The Early Historic Periods, Covering Ad 300 And Later.
Bioarchaeology and Climate Change
Author: Gwen Robbins Schug
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2017-01-10
Total Pages: 175
ISBN-13: 0813059933
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Using subadult skeletons from the Deccan Chalcolithic period of Indian prehistory, along with archaeological and paleoclimate data, this volume makes an important contribution to understanding the effects of ecological change on demography and childhood growth during the second millennium B.C. in peninsular India."--Michael Pietrusewsky, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa In the context of current debates about global warming, archaeology contributes important insights for understanding environmental changes in prehistory, and the consequences and responses of past populations to them. In Indian archaeology, climate change and monsoon variability are often invoked to explain major demographic transitions, cultural changes, and migrations of prehistoric populations. During the late Holocene (1400-700 B.C.), agricultural communities flourished in a semiarid region of the Indian subcontinent, until they precipitously collapsed. Gwen Robbins Schug integrates the most recent paleoclimate reconstructions with an innovative analysis of skeletal remains from one of the last abandoned villages to provide a new interpretation of the archaeological record of this period. Robbins Schug’s biocultural synthesis provides us with a new way of looking at the adaptive, social, and cultural transformations that took place in this region during the first and second millennia B.C. Her work clearly and compellingly usurps the climate change paradigm, demonstrating the complexity of human-environmental transformations. This original and significant contribution to bioarchaeological research and methodology enriches our understanding of both global climate change and South Asian prehistory.
