Vol-6 Number-4 October 2021
Chief Editor: Vijay Kumar
Publisher: National Trust for Promotion of Knowledge, Lucknow
Mode of Publication: Online (e-Journal)
This article by Shubhrakanti Baul gives the result of archaeological explorations in the Dulung River valley of the Subarnarekha basin, West Bengal in eastern India. Plenty of lithic implement has been found from the drainage basin of the river. The exploration has been conducted in different phases over the past two years. Implements are from twenty-eight different locations of the valley. These sites have yielded Lower Palaeolithic tools like hand-axes, choppers, bifacial cutting tools, cleavers, scrapers, and cores of and microliths like lunates, scrapers, microblade and debitage. Most of the sites are located near the paleochannels of the Dulung river and in the vicinity of rivers. Palaeolithic tools are mostly found on the ferricrete surface exposed after the erosion of the topmost latosol layer, sometimes tools have been found stuck in the ferricrete layer. Microliths have been found over loosely ferruginous surfaces and also at the junctions of the ferricrete layer and latosol layer.
This article by Ubaid Ahmad Dar explores the initial findings that could be utilized to link the still persistent crucial cultural elements of the Bakarwal pastoral tribe based in Kashmir Himalayas with those of excavated Neolithic sites of Kashmir valley i.e. Burzahom Srinagar, Gufkral Anantnag and Kanispura J & K, through the study of continuity and change. The aim is to draw a general comparative analogy between the two cultural periods and give groundwork for the forthcoming Ethnoarchaeological study in the region.
This article by Dr. Nilkamal Singha and Dr. Oinam Ranjit Singh is about ever-changing landscape of Assam. The landscape has undergone considerable changes since human set foot in the region. These changes initially were insignificant but after the introduction of agriculture, these have become significant and visible. There are other factors responsible for shaping and reshaping of landscape of Assam up to 1200 A.D. The present paper examines various periods from prehistoric to early medieval. It also examines the aspects like Agriculture specially rice cultivation, migration & religion and their role in shaping of the landscape of Assam.
This article by R.N. Singh, C.A. Petrie, A. Alam, J. Bates, A. Ceccarelli, S. Chakradhari, S. K.Singh, A. Chowdhary, A.S. Green, E. Lightfoot, A.K. Pandey, A. Ranjan, D.I. Redhouse, D.P. Singh, U. Singh, M.C. Ustunkaya, and J.R. Walker presents an overview of the survey and excavation work at Masudpur I in 2018 that was carried out jointly by the Banaras Hindu University and University of Cambridge under the auspices of the TwoRains project. The site of Masudpur I is situated c.12 km to the west of the Indus city-site of Rakhigarhi. It appears to have been occupied in the Mature and Late Harappan periods. The investigations that were carried out in 2018 included the excavation of a horizontal trench, local-scale surface and subsurface landscape survey, and large-scale settlement location survey.
This article by Vijay Kumar, Alok Ranjan & Swami Virjanand Daivkarni gives the details of 1674 seals & sealings collected from the sites of Agroha, Ahichhatra, Jaunpur, Kaushambi, Lucknow, Mohanbadi, Naurangabad, Sugha and Sunet etc. kept at Haryana State Archaeological Museum, Gurukul Jhajjar District Jhajjar Haryana. The highlights of this collections are Greek Sealings found from different sites of North India, Indo-Parthian Sealing from Kaushambi, Sealings of commercial Settlements, a sealing with the image of Ganesh, sealings of Shrenis, the Banker’s sealing, Vrishani sealings, sealings of Kumaramatya & Dandanayak, sealing with legend Dharmorakśatirakśitah, the rise of local Gurus, the sealings of Padmanabha, the sealings with legend siddhirastu, Dharmakartavyam, Jitam Bhagwata and datvyam bhotvyam, sealings of Shalabhanjika, sealing of combined cult of Shiva & Vishnu and Royal Sealings of Panchala, Magha & Yaudheya kings.
This article by Dhanushka Kumara Jayaratne examines the original location of the Wāyā Ulpatha (Commonly known as Viyaulpatha) pillar inscription in Anuradhapura District of Sri Lanka. At present, this pillar inscription is located in the Wāyā Ulpatha temple premises and it has been moved from its earlier location several times. Recent archaeological explorations conducted in this region uncovered evidences from many settlements including some ancient monastic sites. The methodology of the present work is in fivefold: literature and cartographical review, field survey, personal communications and remote sensing data. The purpose of this study was to identify the physical and spatial relationships between the pillar inscriptions and to gather newly discovered archaeological evidences.
This article by Shamoon Ahmad and Amit Jain gives the details of the coin hoard containing 18 coins found from village Khedi Khushnaam district Shamli U.P., and presently kept in Shahjad Rai Research Institute. The examination confirms that all coins are silver tankas belonging to the reign of Alā-ud-dīn Muhammad Shāh of Khiljī dynasty of Delhi Sultanate who ruled from 1296 A.D. to 1316 A.D. Out of 18 coins, 8 coins were issued from Hazrat Delhi and 7 coins were issued from Dār-ul-Islām, mint of 3 coins could not be deciphered
This article by Alka Srivastava gives the atlas of pollen characters of Subfamily Papilionoideae which includes trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants under light microscopy. This can be used as reference for the identification of Pollen found from different excavations. The subfamily Papilionoideae includes a number of important pulse and vegetable crops. Fifteen taxa of subfamily Papilionoideae, growing in Kanpur area were studied for their pollen morphological characters
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