Recent Researches on Indus Civilization and Maritime Archaeology

Contents: Preface. 1. Maritime trade of the Harappans : antecedents efflorescence and afterglow/R.S. Bisht. 2. Rural settlements of mature Harappan phase: a case study of Gujarat/V.H. Sonawane. 3. Environmental impact on cultural landscape in hinterland of a Harappan metropolis/Tejas Garge. 4. Further excavations at Khirsara (2011-12), Kachchh, Gujarat/Jitendra Nath, R.N. Kumaran, Bipin Chandra and Ramraj Meena. 5. Packaged food from the sea: dietary use of marine molluscs at coastal Harappan settlements in Gujarat, India/Arati Deshpande Mukherjee. 6. Animal remains from the mature Harappan context at Karanpura, Hanumangarh District, Rajasthan: A Preliminary report/P.P. Joglekar, V.N. Prabhakar and S.K. Mitra. 7. Climate induced vegetational evolution: palynological and thecamoebian study from coastal archaeological sites, Saurashtra/Anjum Farooqui and A.S. Gaur. 8. Expansion of Harappan culture in North-Western Maharashtra/Manoj Kumar Kurmi. 9. Relation between art and archaeology: its possibilities in marine studies in India/Nalini Rao. 10. Some early historic ports of Tamilakam: revisited/N. Athiyaman. 11. Early historic shipwreck archaeology of the Indian subcontinent region/A.S. Gaur. 12. Maritime trade of Goa from times immemorial/Fr. Cosme Jose Costa sfx. 13. Ancient ports on Kerala coast-recent investigations/M. Nambirajan. 14. Ships and shipbuilding in Bengal as gleaned from Mangalakavya corpus/Shahnaj Husne Jahan. 15. A study of Chinese porcelain found in the Indian Ocean/Aprajita Sharma. 16. Persian Gulf to Western India-the role of ceramics in the study of early medieval maritime settlements/Rukshana Nanji. 17. Underwater cultural heritage-the hidden treasures and their unseen enemies in Indian waters/L.N. Santhakumaran. 18. Possible location of Gaspar Dias fort in relation to the present River Bank/Antonio Mascarenhas, Sila Tripati and R. Mani Murali. 19. Applications of remote sensing and geographic information system (GIS) in archaeology/R. M M