PURATATTVA NO. 35 (2004-05) CONTENTS Page Editorial (vi) Felicitations to Prof. A.K. Narain (ix) ARTICLES Symbolic Approaches to the Study of Early Agropastoral Communities of Lower Deccan 1 K. Paddayya Pre-Harappan Village Settlements and Early Farming Communities in Northern South Asia 7 (c. 9th – 4th millennia BC) B.R. Mani Harappan Environment as One Variable in the Preponderance of Rhinoceros and Paucity of 21 Horse J. Manuel A Study of Early Harappan Pottery Motifs 27 Anisha Saxena Early Chalcolithic Ceramic Traditions of Gujarat 38 Preeti Panjwani Baror: A New Harappan Site in Ghaggar Valley – A Preliminary Report 50 Urmila Sant, T.J. Baidya, N.G. Nikoshey, N.K. Sinha, S. Nayan, J.K. Tiwari and A. Arif New Light on the Excavation of Harappan Settlement at Bhirrana 60 L.S. Rao, Nandini B. Sahu, Prabash Sahu, Samir Diwan and U.A. Shastry Stylised Terracotta Animal Head with Horns from Bhirrana – Identification and 69 Significance L.S. Rao Dholavira’s Geometry: A Preliminary Study 76 Michel Danino Chronological Assessment of the Bara Culture 85 K.C. Nauriyal Salvaging the Vanishing Harappans in Haryana 94 Tejas Garge Site Catchment Analysis of the Chalcolithic Settlement of Gilund in the Banas Basin 102 Debasri Dasgupta Geoarchaeological Observations of Man Basin in Solarpur District, Maharashtra 111 Sushma G. Deo, Shivaji Kshirsagar, S.N. Rajaguru, S.S. Hampe and P.P. Joglekar 1 Iron Objects from the Iron Age-Early Historic Level at Badmal 118 Pradeep K. Behera and Pranab K. Chattopadhyay Excavation at Kopia 2005: A Preliminary Report 126 A.K. Kanungo and V.S. Shinde A Stylo-Chrono Appraisal of Pitalkhora Sculptures 135 Ajit Kumar Reflections on the Shikharas of Kalachuri Period Temples in Eastern Madhya Pradesh 143 A.K. Singh Plant Remains from Excavation of Terraces of the Nile at Afyeh, Nubia and Egypt 154 K.A. Chowdhury and G.M. Buth NOTES & NEWS Palaeolithic Tools from Memom, Thiruvananthapuram District, Kerala 160 S. Vijayakumar New Discovery of Mesolithic Sites in Lower Bheden Valley, Orissa 164 Jaya Shankar Naik Neolithic Coastal Karnataka: An Assessment 167 C.B. Patil The Excavation of a Neolithic Site at Lakkundi 170 R. Gopal and A. Sundara Excavation of Kudachi: An Ashmound in Dist. Belgaum 172 S.V. Padiger and A. Sundara Identification of Buddhist Sites in Trans-Ghaghra Plain 174 Vimal Tiwari Significant Discoveries around Sudarshan Lake, Junagadh 179 Shubhra Pramanik Excavations at Siyapur, District Kannauj 182 D.P. Tiwari and D.K. Srivastava Excavations at Sanchankot, District Unnao, U.P. (2004-05) 186 D.P. Tiwari and D.K. Srivastava Excavations at Naurangabad, Haryana – 2000-01 191 P.B.S. Sengar Historical Tripura in the Light of Excavations at Thakurani Tilla, Pillak 196 G.C. Chauley Shiva’s Fury with Special Reference to a Rare Relief Sculpture from Bhubaneshwar 201 M. Krishna Kumari Newly Discovered Gupta Sculptures from Rangpur (Rajasthan) 205 Ambika Dhaka 2 BOOK REVIEWS B.B. Lal (with contribution from Palaeobotanist K.S. Saraswat), The Homeland of the 209 Aryans: Evidence of Rigvedic Flora and Fauna & Archaeology S.P. Gupta Bhagwan Singh, Bharatiya Sabhyata ki Nirmiti 213 S.P. Gupta Birendra Pratap Singh, Early Farming Communities of the Kaimur 213 P.K. Trivedi Rewant Vikram Singh, Settlements in the Yamuna-Hindon Doab: An Archaeological 214 Perspective Arun Kesarwani D.P. Tiwari, Excavations at Saunphari and Explorations in Ganga Plain 215 S.P. Gupta Vimala Begley et al. (Eds), The Ancient Port of Arikamedu-New Excavations and Research 216 T. Arun Raj Alok Tripathi (Ed.), Remote Sensing and Archaeology 217 Arun Kesarwani P.P. Joglekar, V.D. Misra, J.N. Pal and M.C. Gupta, Mesolithic Mahadaha: The Faunal 218 Remains P. Ajithprasad Michael Witzel, ‘Ein Fremdling im Rigveda’, In Journal of Indo-European Studies 221 Vishal Agrawal INDEX TO PURATATTVA NOS. 24-34 226 ANNUAL REPORT 247 Report of the XXXVIII Annual Conference of Indian Archaeological Society held at the State Department of Archaeology, Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow from 28th to the 31st of December, 2004 THE INDIAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY-A BRIEF 250 BALANCE SHEET 256 OFFICE BEARERS 258 BOARD OF MANAGEMENT 259 PLATES 3 .