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 India 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 Mahanadi 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, Odisha: 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, Madhya Pradesh 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, Jharkhand 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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