[PDF] Puratattva eBook

Author : Nimrod Marom
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 19,31 MB
Release : 2016-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1785701754

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Seventeen papers demonstrate how zooarchaeologists engage with questions of identity through culinary references, livestock husbandry practices and land use. Contributions combine hitherto unpublished zooarchaeological data from regions straddling a wide geographic expanse between Greece in the West and India in the East and spanning a time range from the latest part of the Palaeolithic to the Middle Ages. The vitality of a hands-on approach to data presentation and interpretation carried out primarily at the level of the individual site – the arena of research providing the bread and butter of zooarchaeological work conducted in southwest Asia – is demonstrated. Among the themes explored are shifting identities of late hunter-gatherers through interactions with settled agrarian societies; the management of camp sites by early complex hunter-gatherers; processes of assimilation of Roman culinary practices among Egyptian elites; and the propagation of medieval pilgrim identity through the use of seashell insignia. A wealth of new data is discussed and a wide variety of applications of analytical approaches are applied to particular case studies within the framework of social and contextual zooarchaeology. The volume constitutes the proceedings of the 11th meeting of the ICAZ Working Group - Archaeozoology of Southwestern Asia and Adjacent Areas (ASWA).

Author : Madhukar Keshav Dhavalikar
Publisher :
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 38,50 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN :

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Covers the period from 1000 B.C. to 1800 A.D.

Author : Gregory L. Possehl
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 11,15 MB
Release : 2002
Category : India
ISBN : 9780759101722

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A brief introduction to the history, archaeology, art, language, and culture of the Indus Valley civilization, written by the leading North American Indus archaeologist.

Author : Frank Raymond Allchin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,86 MB
Release : 1995-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521376952

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A study of the cities and states of South Asia between c.800BC and AD 250.

Author : Catarina Ginja
Publisher : Lockwood Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 22,63 MB
Release : 2022-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1948488744

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This volume originates in a conference session that took place at the 2018 International Council of Archaeozoology conference in Ankara, Turkey, entitled "Humans and Cattle: Interdisciplinary Perspectives to an Ancient Relationship." The aim of the session was to bring together zooarchaeologists and their colleagues from various other research fields working on human cattle interactions over time. The contributions in this volume reflect well the breadth of work being undertaken on the ancient relationship between humans and cattle across the continents of Europe, Africa and Asia, and from the late Pleistocene to postmedieval period. Almost all involve the study of archaeological cattle remains and use different zooarchaeological methods, but the combination of these approaches with that of ethnography, isotopes and genetics is also featured. Author Interview

Author : Alok Kumar Kanungo
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 24,43 MB
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9811636567

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This book provides a comprehensive research on Ancient Indian glass. The contributors include experienced archaeologists of South Asian glass and archaeological chemists with expertise in the chemical analysis of glass, besides, established ethnohistorians and ethnoarchaeologists. It is comprised of five sections, and each section discusses different aspects of glass study: the origin of glass and its evolution, its scientific study and its care, ancient glass in literature and glass ethnography, glass in South Asia and the diffusion of glass in different parts of the world. The topic covered by the different chapters ranges from the development of faience, to the techniques developed for the manufacture of glass beads, glass bangles or glass mirrors at different times in south Asia, a major glass producing region and the regional distribution of key artefacts both within India and outside the region, in Africa, Europe or Southeast Asia. Some chapters also include extended examples of the archaeometry of ancient glasses. It makes an important contribution to archaeological, anthropological and analytical aspects of glass in South Asia. As such, it represents an invaluable resource for students through academic and industry researchers working in archaeological sciences, ancient knowledge system, pyrotechnology, historical archaeology, social archaeology and student of anthropology and history with an interest in glass and the archaeology of South Asia.

Author : Vasant Shinde
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 36,62 MB
Release : 2023-10-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1803275928

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Rakhigarhi, situated in Hisar District, Haryana, India, is one of the largest metropolises of the Harappan Civilization found so far. After introducing the excavations that took place 2011-2017 and setting out the objectives of the project, this book focuses on the uncovered cemetery, with detailed analysis and inventories of the burials.

Author : Mahesh Rangarajan
Publisher : Pearson Education India
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 21,89 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9788131708101

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Contributed articles presented at a workshop convened at Department of History, Delhi University in September 2005.