Journal of Indian Ocean Archaeology (Vol.6: 2009-10)

by: Sunil Gupta

This Journal embodies the results of explorations and excavations conducted by scholars in various countries which witnessed the growth of the personality of the shared culture of the Indian Ocean Rim countries, including the countries of Southwest Asia. It also includes all aspects of cultural, economic and socio-political histories of these countries.

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ISBN: 9788124607862
Year Of Publication: 2009
Edition: 1st
Pages : viii, 176p.
Language : English
Binding : Paperback
Publisher: Centre for Research and Training in History, Archaeology and Palaeo-environment
Size: 28 cm.
Weight: 600

Overview

Journal of Indian Ocean Archaeology was launched in 2003 by one of Indias leading academic institutions, the Centre for Research & Training in History, Archaeology and Palaeo-environment, New Delhi. The second issue is in the Press. The Journal is an outcome of the realization on the part of the international community of archaeologists and historians that India has no journal devoted exclusively to the archaeology of the Indian Ocean Rim countries, starting from the Red Sea through the South China Sea, although Indian occupies the central position in this vast area, with three-fourths of its land facing the gulfs and bays of the Indian Ocean. It is common knowledge that Egypt, Ethiopis, Kenya, Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Bahrain and countries bordering the Persian Gulf, including Iraq and Iran, as well as Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, China, were closely connected with each other through long-distance sea-borne trade-routes for thousands of years. This particular phenomenon had led to the development of what is now generally called Shared Culture with its distinct personality which is Afro-Asian. It is reflected in the material items dug up every year at a number of sites in India and all other countries along the coasts of the Indian Ocean. This journal embodies the results of explorations and excavations conducted by scholars in various countries which witnessed the growth of the personality of the shared culture of the Indian Ocean Rim countries, including the countries of Southwest Asia. It also includes all aspects of cultural, economic and socio-political histories of these countries. The contributors to this journal are from all over the world. It is a MUST for every scholar and layman interested in the history and arachaeology of the coastal countries of the Indian Ocean, from Africa, and West Asia through China.

Contents

Introduction
Editorial
A Proto-Historic Culture in the Udawalave Basin of the Sabaragamuva province in Sri Lanka
— R. Somadeva, D. Gamalat, S. Ranasinghe, M.W. Indika, S. Chandrakumara, P. Ranasinghe, A. Samanmalee, K. Edirisinghe and S. Wijesekara
Stone Age Archaeology of the Tanzanian Coast and Adjacent Islands: A Review
— Emanuel Thomas Kessy
From the Indus Valley to Mesopotamia: Meluhha as Trader Between East and West
–Mehdi Mortazavi
Roman Penetration into the Southern Red Sea and the Aksumite Campaign in West Arabia (Reconsideration of the Latin Dedicatory Inscription From the Farasan Archipelago) Part – I
— Mikhali D. Bukharin
Sri Lankas Late Pleistocene Rockshelters
— Nimal Perera
Arikamedu Type 10 and the Reconstruction of Indian Ocean Networks of Contact
— Joanne Shoebridge and Robin Coningham
Red Polished Ware from Padri, Gujarat: A Preliminary Report
— Prabosh Shirvalkar, Vasant Shinde and Sachin Joshi
Notes & News
Pattanam to Challenge Euro-centric Notions and help reqrite the History of Indian Ocean trade
— P.J. Cherian
Report on the Environment and Civilization: Past, Present and Future
— Sunil Gupta
Book Review
Eivind Heldaas Seland, 2010. Ports and Power in the Periplus: Complex Societies and Maritime Trade on the Indian Ocean in the first century AD
— Sunil Gupta

Meet the Author

Sunil Gupta

1961

Dr Sunil Gupta (b. 1961– ) is Assistant Keeper at the Allahabad Museum, an autonomous institution of the Ministry of Culture, Government of India. Dr Gupta completed his PhD in Archaeology from the Deccan College, Pune in 1998. He had been Nehru Fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum (1997) and JSPS Post-Doctoral Fellow at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto (1998-99). Dr Gupta is widely travelled, having done archaeological fieldwork in Japan, China and East Africa. He was co-director of excavations of the Early Historic port-site of Kamrej (Gujarat) in 2003. He has chaired sessions in international conferences and has been invited as PhD examiner by the universities of Uppsala (Sweden) and Bergen (Norway). Dr Gupta has papers in referred journals and in prestigious edited volumes published in India and abroad. He is the co-editor of the Journal of Indian Ocean Archaeology. His current focus is the archaeology of “trade and civilization” in the context of the early Indian Ocean world.

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