7000-3000 BCE The north-west The Vindhyan fringes and other areas NEOLITHIC, NEOLITHIC-CHALCOLITHIC, AND CHALCOLITHIC COMMUNITIES, C. THE NEOLITHIC AGE AND THE BEGINNINGS OF FOOD PRODUCTION WHY DOMESTICATION? THE IDENTIFICATION OF DOMESTICATION AND FOOD PRODUCTION IN THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD The analysis of ancient plant remains THE TRANSITION TO FOOD PRODUCTION IN THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT THE EARLIEST VILLAGE SETTLEMENTS IN THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT, C. Microliths Animal bones at mesolithic sites Graves, subsistence, and settlement patterns The journey to get chalcedony THE MAGNIFICENCE OF MESOLITHIC ART c o n c l u s io n sģ The Transition to Food Production: Neolithic, Neolithic-Chalcolithic, and Chalcolithic Villages, c. Ostrich eggshell beads THE LIFE-WAYS OF PALAEOLITHIC HUNTER-GATHERERS Food resources-now and then THE MESOLITHIC AGE Mesolithic
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JAINA LITERATURE SANGAM LITERATURE AND LATER TAMIL WORKS The stories of the two Tamil epics EARLYKANNADA AND TELUGU LITERATURE Other ancientīanabhatta and his royal biography THE NATURE OF ANCIENT INDIAN HISTORICAL TRADITIONS THE ACCOUNTS OF FOREIGN WRITERS Al-Biruni on the writing of the Hindus ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE EARLY INDIAN PAST SCIENTIFIC TECHNIQUES IN ARCHAEOLOGY Radiocarbon dating INTERPRETING ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE ETHNO-ARCHAEOLOGY The social and cultural aspects of technology PROTECTING SITES EPIGRAPHY: THE STUDY OF INSCRIPTIONS Ancient and early medieval scripts LANGUAGES OF ANCIENT AND EARLYMEDIEVAL INSCRIPTIONS Deciphered and undeciphered scripts DATING THE INSCRIPTIONS How to convert ancient era dates into modern ones THE CLASSIFICATION OF INSCRIPTIONS Memorializing death in stone INSCRIPTIONS AS A SOURCE OF HISTORY NUMISMATICS: THE STUDY OF COINS A BRIEF HISTORY OF INDIAN COINAGE COINS AS A SOURCE OF HISTORY Counter-struck coins of the Kshatrapas and SatavahanasĢ Hunter-Gatherers of the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Ages THE GEOLOGICAL AGES AND HOMINID EVOLUTION What does it mean to be human? HOMINID REMAINS IN THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT PALAEO- ENVIRONMENTS CLASSIFYING THE INDIAN STONE AGE THE PALAEOLITHIC AGE LOWER PALAEOLITHIC SITES Typical lower palaeolithic tools Isampur: a centre of stone tool manufacture MIDDLE PALAEOLITHIC SITES The Levallois technique UPPER PALAEOLITHIC SITES Upper palaeolithic tools palaeolithic art and cults 600-1200 CE A Note on Diacritics Glossary Further Readings References CreditsĬontents Photographs, Maps, and Figures About the Author Preface Acknowledgements A Reader's Guide Introduction: Ideas of the Early Indian Past THE MAIN PHYSIOGRAPHIC ZONES OF THE SUBCONTINENT WAYS OF DIVIDING THE INDIAN PAST CHANGING INTERPRETATIONS OF EARLY INDIAN HISTORY NEW HISTORIES, UNWRITTEN HISTORIES 1 Understanding Literary and Archaeological Sources READING ANCIENT TEXTS FROM A HISTORICAL POINT OF VIEW Ancient palm leaf manuscripts THE CLASSIFICATION OF LITERARY SOURCES: LANGUAGE, GENRE, AND CONTENT THE VEDAS th e tw o S an sk rit epics: th e Ramayana a n d M ahabharata Archaeology and the Mahabharata The chronological layers in the Ramayana THEPURANAS THE DHARMASHASTRA Theory and practice in the Dharmashastra BUDDHIST LITERATURE Songs of Buddhist nuns Cities, Kings, and Renunciants: North India, c. Cultural Transitions: Images from Texts and Archaeology, c. The Transition to Food Production: Neolithic, Neolithic-Chalcolithic, and Chalcolithic Villages, c. Hunter-Gatherers of the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Ages 3. Understanding Literary and Archaeological Sources 2. A Histoiy of Ancient and Early Medieval India From the Stone Age to the 12th CenturyĪ HISTORY OF ANCIENT AND EARLY MEDIEVAL INDIA F r o m t h e S t o n e A g e t o t h e 12 t h C e n t u r yīrief Contents Photographs, Maps, and Figures About the Author Preface Acknowledgements A Reader's Guide Introduction: Ideas of the Early Indian Past 1.
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