Past and Present: Ethnoarchaeology in IndiaPragati Publications in collaboration with Centre for Archaeological Studies and Training, Eastern India, 2006 - Social Science - 479 pages Concentrates on the definition, scope and methodological problems of the discipline of ethnoarchaoelogy with special reference to India. Written by a group of distinguished scholars, this book includes essays which deal with crucial issues such as relevance of ethnohistoric accounts and the role of analogy as an explanatory tool. |
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abandoned activities agricultural Allchin analogy ancient anthropology approach archaeological archaeological record artefacts Asia associated bamboo beads carried central centre century ceramics changes clay communities constructed context continuity cultivation culture Delhi discussed district early Eastern economy ethnoarchaeology ethnographic evidence field forest formation Ghats groups Gujarat Harappan hearths hills historical human hunter-gatherers hunting important India indicates interpretation iron Living located manufacture material means method Nagpur nature noted objects observed Oraons particular past pastoral pattern period phase Pleistocene possible pots pottery practices prehistoric present Press production question range reference region relation remains ritual river seasonal seen settlement shape shell shifting social societies South stone structures subsistence suggests techniques term tion tradition translation tribal tribe types understand University valley village Ware West western