PURATATTVA NO. 47 (2017)

CONTENTS Page Obituaries (vii) Editorial (xi) ARTICLES

Archaeology, Anthropology and the Study of the Human Past 1 Kamal K. Misra

Urban Process and Dynamics of Culture in the Ganga Plain 8 Vibha Tripathi

Neolithic in the Middle Ganga Plain and Neighbouring Vindhyas: One of the Early Centres 35 of Domestication of Plants and Animals J.N. Pal

Jainism and Buddhism in Early Karnataka: A Contrasting Scenario in their Progress and 49 Significance A. Sundara

Dating the Rig Veda: The Western View and the Evidence 60 Varun Singh

Implications of a Recent Hoard of Copper Objects from Harinagar, District Bijnor, Uttar 73 Pradesh Bhuvan Vikrama and Arakhita Pradhan

Revisited Laimanai: A Neolithic Site of Manipur, North–East 83 Manoj Kumar Singh and Naorem Ambravati Devi

Animal Remains from the Mature Harappan Contexts at Farmana, Rohtak District, 101 Haryana, India P.P. Joglekar, C.V. Sharada and V.S. Shinde

Late Pleistocene Stone Age Culture of Upper Basin with Special Reference to 115 Jonk River Basin Tosabanta Padhan

Rock Art of Gawilgarh Hills 131 Nandini Bhattacharya-Sahu and Prabash Sahu

Vartaav: Tradition or Trust? 138 Navjot Kour

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In Shadow of Monumental Remains: Recent Archaeological Research in Aurangabad 146 District, Maharashtra Tejas Garge

Iron Age-Early Historic Pottery from Budhigarh, District- Kalahandi, : A 157 Preliminary Observation Sakir Hussain and Baba Mishra

Ancient Brick Temples in District Sonbhadra (U.P.) 167 Rakesh Tewari and Subhash Chandra Yadav

Unique Jaina Bronze Images from Bhind District, 171 Arvind Kumar Singh and Navneet Kumar Jain

The Contribution of West Asians in the Growth of Kollam as an International Maritime 179 Trade Centre: A Review of Citations and Artefacts Ajit Kumar and Vinuraj B.

Recent Explorations in District Lohardaga, 190 Poonam Vind

Archaeological Investigations at Uren (Urain), District Lakhisarai, Bihar 195 Goutami Bhattacharya, R.K. Chattopadhyay, Ashish Kumar and Niraj Kr. Mishra

NOTES & NEWS

The Aryans were Indigenous: Neither Invaders nor immigrants 205 B.B. Lal

Rock Art in India: with special reference to Isko Rock Art, Hazaribagh 210 Geeta Ojha

Archaeological Reinvestigation at the Site of Abhana, District Balasore, Odisha 213 Dipsikha Acharya and Bidhan Halder

Reappraisal of Hayagriva and Vrishabhanan Sculptures from Govt. Museum, Kota 217 Ambika Dhaka

Notes on Prehistoric Sites Explored in Different River Valleys of Jharkhand 221 Paromita Bose

Published News 232 Greek footprints cast doubt on our African origins

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BOOK REVIEWS 233 Paddayya, K. and Sushama G. Deo, 2017, Prehistory of South Asia (The Lower Palaeolithic or Formative Era of Hunting-Gathering) D.P. Agrawal

Jayaswal, Vidula, Arvind Kumar Singh and Meera Sharma, 2017, The Sacred Landscape of Mundeshwari The ‘Oldest Living’ Temple B.R. Mani

Paddayya, K., 2017, Methodological Issues in Indian Archaeology Ranjana Ray

Mohanty, R.K. and Tilok Thakuria, 2016, Indian Beads – History and Technology Neelima Basudevan

Chakravarti, Ranabir, 2016, Exploring India up to C. AD 1300 (Third Edition) P.K. Trivedi

Hazarika, Manjil, 2017, Prehistory and Archaeology of Northeast India K.N. Dikshit

ACTIVITIES OF THE INDIAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 242 Report of the XLIX Annual Conference

BALANCE SHEET 246 OFFICE-BEARERS 248 BOARD OF MANAGEMENT 249 NEW LIFE MEMBERS 250 GUIDELINES 251 PLATES (1-64)

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