Archaeology

About the Book Alexander Cunningham, India's first professional archaeologist, became the first Director General of the Archaeological Survey of In...

About the Book Research work on coastal Bengal has mostly focused on maritime trading networks. In a clear departure from the existing scholarship,...

About the Book "Paleoperformance" is a pioneering work which examines the emergence of theatricality at the birth of human societies. In the Upper ...

This pioneering work presents the results of the first archaeological project ever undertaken in Bhutan: the excavation of Drapham Dzong, a fortres...

This book interleaves the history of post- Independence archaeology in India with the life and times of Madhukar Narhar Deshpande (1920-2008), a le...

In January 1901, the Dutch Sanskritist Jean Philippe Vogel (1871–1958) entered the Archaeological Survey of India to direct the activities for the ...

These concepts can deepen study of plasticity, disease, gender, violence, and race and ethnicity, as well as advance the field's decolonization eff...

The Archaeoastronomy of a Few Megalithic Sites of Jharkhand discards the belief that megaliths are only sepulchral monuments and illustrates that t...

This is a lively overview of the major ideas and concepts in archaeological theory.