Puratattva : Bulletin of the Indian Archaeological Society, Vol. 44, 2014
Contents: 1. The archaeology of sacred spaces in India: from multi-religious sites to monuments/Himanshu Prabha Ray. 2. Palaeolithic cultural development and modern human dispersal in Gujarat/P Ajithprasad. 3. An archaeological survery of medieval settlements (with special reference to planning of Bbhangarh town, district Alwar)/C. Margabandhu. 4. Past and present stone bead making in India/Kuldeep K Bhan. 5. Antiquities from the sea-bed at Tangasseri, Kollam District, Keralam, South India/P Rajendran. 6. Artistry in the rock shelters of Gawilgarh hills: recent discoveries/Nandini Bhattacharya-Sahu and Prabash Sahu. 7. The Microlithic industries in the Girisul river valley, Western Odisha: a preliminary report/S. Mendaly. 8. Defining the economical space of Harappan Rakhigarhi: an interface of local subsistence mechanism and geologic provenience studies/Amarendra Nath, Tejas Garge and Randall Law. 9. Phytoliths in archaeological soils from Chopani-Mando, Belan Valley: a preliminary study/Tulika Sinha and Prakash Sinha. 10. Archaeological investigations around Kakharua Valley in Keonjhar and Angul Districts, Odisha/Rajendra Dehuri. 11. Appreciating Hoysala sculptures through the media of Natyashastra: a pan-indian text and Manasollasa a regional treatise/Rohitha Eswer. 12. Archaeology of Jodhpur District, Western Rajasthan, India/Astha Dibyopama and Vasant Shinde. 13. Early historical Budigarh, Odisha and its ethnomedicinal environment: a preliminary investigation/Baba Mishra, U.S Kar, MP Singh Deo and Ranvir Singh. 14. Investigations of the ruins of Jain Temples at Chait in District Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh/Arvind K. Singh. 15. Origin of the Tibetan Script/Tobdan. 16. Reassessment of the archaeological antiquity of upper central Ganga plain with reference to data from significant excavated sites and recent researches/Indudhar Dwivedi and Vimal Tiwari. 17. Discovery of Palaeolithic industries in the Vindhyan Hills in Southern Bihar and adjoining Jharkhand/A.K. Prasad. 18. The ceramic traditions from Kampil excavations/D.P. Tewari. 19. Chronological sequences and the problem of early medieval settlement in India/Jason Hawkes. 20. Potential of shape memory alloys in the restoration of Indian heritage monuments/Mihir Mishra. 21. Tilaurakot Excavation - 2014/Mala Malla.
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