Dr Jose Rapheal
After the attainment of Independence, the newly born Indian nation was struggling with the future of 350 million people. Democracy, poverty, unemployment, industrialisation, the idea of unity in diversity were the hot topics of debate. It was during this time that some scholars, armed with maps…
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Jose Rapheal
Bednarik, Robert G. ‘Palaeolithic art in India.’ Man and Environment 18, no. 2 (1993): 33–40.
Gaillard, Claire, Sheila Mishra, Mukesh Singh, Sushama Deo, and Riza Abbas. ‘Lower and early Middle Pleistocene Acheulian in the Indian sub-continent.’ Quaternary International 223 (2010): 234–241.
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Jose Rapheal
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Dr Sheila Mishra is a retired professor of geoarchaeology and the Head of Department of the Department of Archaeology, Deccan College, Pune, with about 30 years of experience in working in the field of Acheulian Studies in India. She has contributed a number of research articles in this field.
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Jose Rapheal
The word Acheulean is derived from the French archaeological site St. Acheul, referring to the tool-making tradition during the Lower Paleolithic period across Afro-Eurasia. In India, the Acheulian culture stretches from the Siwalik hills in the north to areas near Chennai in the south. Owing to…
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Prof. Rajan Gurukkal
The Edakkal [1] Rock is on the crest of a hill known as Ambukuttimala belonging to the Western Ghats, about 4,600 feet above the sea level and situated about 10 km south-west of Sultan Battery in the Wayanad district of Kerala. It is a prehistoric rock shelter formed naturally out of a strange…
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V.N. Misra writes about prehistoric rock shelters in Bhimbetka, their discovery, techniques and themes of rock paintings, and the efforts made to preserve them.
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Agrawal, D.P. 1982. The Kashmir Karewas: A Multidisciplinary Perspective', Man and Environment 6:1–4.
Agrawal, D.P., R. Dodia, B.S. Kotlia, H. Razdan, and A. Sahni. 1990. 'The Plio-Pleistocene Geologic and Climatic Record of the Kashmir Valley, India: A Review and New Data', Man and Environment…
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Abdul Rashid Lone
The valley of Kashmir, located in the lap of the Western Himalayas, has Pleistocene[1] loess[2] deposits which are considered the thickest and most extensive in the Indian subcontinent. In relation to the terrestrial palaeoenvironmental changes these deposits serve as the best and most important…
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In conversation with Dr. Nayanjot Lahiri, Professor of History at Ashoka University, about communication and trade networks during the Prehistoric Period in Kashmir. She talks about the cultural background in the north and north-western landscape of the Indian subcontinent during the third…
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