Gurudakshina-Facets of Indian Archaeology

This volume is presented as a tribute to Prof. V. N. Misra (Misraji), one of the most respected archaeologists of India. The 17 contributions, all based on the revised doctoral research of scholars who completed their Ph.D. under the honorand's supervision, cover a time span from the Palaeolithic to the early historic period and treat regions across India, while one covers the early historic period of Bangladesh. Topics covered include lithic technology studies; topographic analyses of the subsistence strategies of hunter-gatherers and fishermen; discussion of ceramics, bone tools, rock art, cist burials and archaeometallurgical sites; reports from megalithic sites; accounts of settlement patterns in the context of landscape, soils, climate, water sources, flora and fauna; discussion of early maritime trade; archaeozoological analysis; reports of ethnoarchaeological field work and more.