PURATATTVA NO.

40 (2010)

CONTENTS Page
Obituaries (vii)
Editorial (xiii)
ARTICLES
Apropos „The Urban Decay in Indian History‟ 1
A.P. Jamkhedkar

Late Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Cultures of North-Central India 8

V.D. Misra

Ionia, Egypt and Baktria (The Greek World of India) 17

U.P. Arora

Language and Evolution of Mind: The Neanderthals 37

D.P. Agrawal

A Preliminary Study on the Stone Age Cultures of Khunty and its Adjoining Regions, 51
Jharkhand
Krishnendu Polley and Ranjana Ray

Archaeological Sequence of the Kumari - Kansavati Valley, District of Bankura, West 71

Bengal: An Appraisal
R.K. Chattopadhyay, Dipsikha Acharya and Shubha Majumder

Geoarchaeological Survey and Excavations at Burj-2010, Fatehabad, Haryana 94

R.N. Singh, C.A. Petrie, C.A.I. French, S. Neogi, A.K. Pandey, D. Parikh and V. Pawar

Excavations at Gachibowli: A Preliminary Report 102

K.P. Rao

New Light on Harappan Animal Based Subsistence from Recent Faunal Studies in the 112
Ghaggar Region
Arati Deshpande-Mukherjee

A Fresh Investigation at Poompuhar: The Port City 120

B.R. Mani, V.K. Swarnkar, M. Saxena and P.P. Pradhan

Discovery of Kharoshti and Kharoshti-Brahmi Rock Inscriptions in the Chotanagpur Hills 127
of Southern Bihar
A.K. Prasad

Animal Remains from the „Medieval‟ Phase at Balupur, Malda District, West Bengal 135
P.P. Joglekar, Sheena Panja, Gauri Bedekar and Pankaj Goyal

Ceramic Traditions of Middle Ganga Plain (From the Beginning to the Early Iron Age) 148
Kulbhushan Mishra

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The Madras School and its place in Nineteenth Century Colonial Orientalism 164
K. Paddayya

NOTES & NEWS

Megalithic Cultures of the Northern Vindhyan Region with Special Reference to the Adwa 188
Valley
Shitala Prasad Singh

Newly Discovered Archaeological Remains from Itkhori Region, District Chatra, Jharkhand 193
Niraj Kumar Sinha and Rajendra Dehuri

A Unique Terracotta Mother Goddess from Bankat 197

Nidhi Pandey and Surendra Kumar Yadav

Archaeological Investigation in Ballia District with Special Reference to Pakka Kot 200
S. Dubey, A.K. Singh and G.K. Lama

Archaeological Remains from Ahrwan, District Palwal, Haryana 205

Devendra Handa

Further Excavations at Badali (2009-10), District, Jhajjar, Haryana 208

R.C. Thakran, Amar Singh, Yashpal, Vikas Pawar and Narender Parmar

Recent Archaeological Investigations at Malhar 214

S.K. Mittra

A Preliminary Report of the Excavation at Manikapatana, Orissa, 2010 222

R.K. Mohanty and P.P. Joglekar

Cotton Textile during the Painted Grey Ware Period from Hatt Excavations, District Jind, 229
Haryana
Manmohan Kumar

A Study on the Meaning and Symbol of Terracotta Objects associated with the Bastu Puja 231
of Atghara, West Bengal
Anwita Dutta

Marine Museum, Nhava, Mumbai 237

Shefalika Awasthi

Making of the Indraprastha Museum of Art and Archaeology: The Ascent of Man 239
S.S. Biswas and Sudipa Saha

BOOK REVIEWS 247

Danino, Michel, 2010, The Lost River, on the Trail of the Sarasvati
Dilip K. Chakrabarti

Chakrabarti, Dilip K. (Ed.), 2010, The Geopolitical Orbits of Ancient India

K.N. Dikshit

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Singh, Upinder and Nayanjot Lahiri (Eds.), 2009, Ancient India New Research
Dilip K. Chakrabarti

Meena, B.R., 2009, Heritage of Rajasthan: Monuments and Archaeological Sites

S.S. Biswas and Gautami Bhattacharya

Ray, Himanshu Prabha (Ed.), 2010, Archaeology and Text: The Temple in South Asia
Vandana Kaushik

Jugnu, Sri Krishna, 2009, Mewar Ka Prarambhik Itihas

J.S. Kharakwal

Mitri, Marco, 2009, An Outline of the Neolithic Culture of the Khasi-Jaintia Hills of Meghalaya,
India: An Archaeological Investigation
Manjil Hazarika

Selvakumar, V., 2010, Tamil Cultural Connections across the World (up to 1600 CE):
Archaeological Evidence from outside Tamil Nadu
Manjil Hazarika

Dutta, Sangeeta, 2010, Ecomuseum: Perspectives in India

Shubha Banerji

Badam, G.L. and K.K. Chakravarty (Eds.), 2010, Heritage of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh
Kulbhushan Mishra

Chenna Reddy, Peddarapu (Ed). 2011. RAJAVIJAYAM: A Spectrum of Historical Studies

Kulbhushan Mishra

Rajeev Srivastava (Ed.), 2010, Proceedings of the National Seminar on Archaeology of Chhattisgarh
& Latest Excavations at Pachrahi
Mohit Srivastava

ACTIVITIES OF THE INDIAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 261

Report of The XLIII Annual Conference

INTERNATIONAL SEMINARS/WORKSHOP 266

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International Seminar on Buddhist Heritage, Gujarat (15 - 17 January, 2010)
K. Krishnan

3rd International Congress of the Society of South Asian Archaeology (SOSAA), Centre for Asian
Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka (20th and 21st August, 2010)
Vasant Shinde and Amrita Sarkar

International Workshop on Digital Preservation of Archaeological Heritage, Indian Institute of

Technology, Kanpur (18th - 19th October, 2010)
Manjil Hazarika

International Seminar “How Deep are the Roots of Indian Civilisation? An Archaeological and
Historical Perspective”, New Delhi (25th - 27th November, 2010)
K.N. Dikshit

BALANCE SHEET 278

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OFFICE-BEARERS 281
BOARD OF MANAGEMENT 282
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