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Vol. XXX (30) for 2005
Issue Number 1 Issue Number 2

Issue Number 1 (January - June 2005)

Title Page
Quaternary Paleoenvironments of the Ganga Plain and Anthropogenic Activity
I. B. Singh
1
Archaeological and Anthropological Research in South Asia: Developments over the Past Fifty Years
Kenneth A. R. Kennedy
36
The Practice of Agastya Worship among the Shankhari Caste of Bengal: an Ethnoarchaeological Investigation in Bishnupur and Kolmijod of West Bengal
Madhulika Samanta
42
Radiocarbon Chronology of Balathal, District Udaipur, Rajasthan
V. N. Misra
54
Towns, Villages, and Desertion: Exploring the Early Medieval Phase in Indian Archaeology
Suchi Dayal
61
Water Management Systems in Guhagar Taluka, Ratnagiri District, Maharashtra
Ashok Marathe and Viraj Shah
67
For Jean-Claude Gardin: Archaeology and the Long Lineages of Tradition
Shereen Ratnagar
79
Terrestrial Gastropod Shell Assemblage from the Mesolothic Cave Site of Muchchatla Chintamanu Gavi in the Kurnool District, Andhra Pradesh
Arati Deshpande-Mukherjee, M. L. K. Murty and G. L. Badam
86
Plant Economy in Ancient Mahorana, Sangrur District, Punjab (c. 2300 B. C. - A. D. 200)
Chanchala Srivastava
94
Ethnographical, Historical and Archaeological Records: Tracing the Metalcraft Tradition in West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand and Orissa
Pranab K. Chattopadhyay and Nupur Dasgupta
103


Short Communications
Some Important Observations: Excavations at Mahurjhari (2001 - 2004)
R. K. Mohanty
106
A Note on the Excavations at Andipatti and Modur, Tamil Nadu
T. S. Sridhar and S. Vasanthi
108


Book Reviews
   V. N. Misra 109
   V. N. Misra 111
   S. Kalyanaraman 113

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Issue Number 2 (July - December 2005)

Title Page
Early Middle palaeolithic: a Transition Phase between the Upper Acheulian and Middle Palaeolithic Cultures in the Orsang Valley, Gujerat
P. Ajithprasad
1
Perceiving the Landscape: Lithic Scatters in Ayodhya Hills, Purulia, West Bengal
Bishnupriya Basak
12
Biological Responses to Subsistence Transitions in Prehistory: Diachronic Dental Changes at Chalcolithic Inamgaon
John R. Lukacs and Subhash R. Walimbe
24
A Late Harappan Port at Kindar Kheda on the Saurashtra Coast
A. S. Gaur and Sundaresh
44
Excavations at Thandikudi, Tamil Nadu
K. Rajan, N. Athiyaman, M. Rajesh and M. Saranya
49
Was Pattanam Ancient Muziris?
K. P. Shajan, V. Selvakumar and Roberta Tomber
66
The Role of the State in the Maritime Trade of Early Historical Bengal
Shahnaj Husne Jahan
74
Brahmana Settlements in a Famine Zone: A Case-study of Shorapur-Doab in the Early Medieval Period
Suchi Dayal
83
Handedness: the Archaeological Record
Amitava Chowdhury and Manas K. Mandal
90


Short Communications
A Note on the Ostrich in India since the Miocene
G. L. Badam
97
Depiction of an Ostrich at the Rock Shelter of Tipatia
Jagat Narain, M. L. Sahu, Surabhi Srivastav, Neha and Tejsingh Mavei
105
A Note on Post-Harappan Seals and Sealings from the Persian Gulf
D. T. Potts
108
Short Note on Early Historic Shell Remains from Gujarat
Atusha Irani
112


Conference Reports
A Report of the Workshop on Early Human Impact on Mega Mollusk held at Isla de Maragarita, Venezuela, 26-29 September 2005
Arati Deshpande-Mukkerjee
117
A Report of the 7th. Harvard-Kyoto Roundtable Pre-symposium held at Kyoto, 6-8 June 2005
P. P. Joglekar
119


Book Reviews
   V. N. Misra 120


Report of the General Secretary 124


Audited Statements 128


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