South Asian Archaeology 2003: Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference of the European Association of South Asian Archaeologists (7–11 July 2003, Bonn)

Chapters

• Preface by the President of the Association
  Burkhard Vogt
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• Opening Remarks by the Secretary General
  Bridget Allchin
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• In Memoriam Karl Jettmar
  Peter Snoy
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• South Asia's Bamboo Curtain : What's on the Other Side?
  Kenneth A. R. Kennedy
  Chapter 1
• Discovery of Upper Palaeolithic Rock Art in Balochistan, Pakistan
  Fazal Dad Kakar
  Chapter 2
• Human Figurines from the Neolithic Levels at Mehrgarh (Balochistan, Pakistan)
  Catherine Jarrige
  Chapter 3
• Bead-Drilling

  A Look from Mehrgarh and Nausharo : Preliminary Results of Micro-trace Analyses
  Blanche Barthélemy de Saizieu, Jean Rodière
  Chapter 4
• Shahi-Tump

  Results of the Last Field-Seasons (2001–2003)
  Roland Besenval, Vincent Marcon, Cécile Buquet, Benjamin Mutin
  Chapter 5
• The Burial Practices at Shahi-Tump (Balochistan, Pakistan)

  First Anthropological Analyses
  Cécile Buquet
  Chapter 6
• Excavations at Sohr Damb/Nal

  Results of the 2002 and 2004 Seasons
  Ute Franke-Vogt
  Chapter 7
• Radiocarbon Dates from Sohr Damb/Nal, Balochistan
  Jochen Gönsdorf
  Chapter 8
• Faunal and Plant Remains from Sohr Damb/Nal

  A Prehistoric Site (c. 3500-2000 BC) in Central Balochistan (Pakistan)
  Norbert Benecke, Reinder Neef
  Chapter 9
• Excavations at the Later Prehistoric Site of Lewan, North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan
  Justin C. Morris
  Chapter 10
• The Beas River Landscape and Settlement Survey

  Preliminary Results from the Site of Vainiwal
  Rita P. Wright, Joe Schuldenrein, M. Afzal Khan, Susan Malin-Boyce
  Chapter 11
• A Diachronic Examination of Lithic Exchange Networks During the Urban Transformation of Harappa
  Randall W. Law
  Chapter 12
• Butchers, Bones, and Plastic Bags

  An Ethnoarchaeological Study of a Specialized Meat Distribution System in the Indian Punjab
  Bradley Allen Chase
  Chapter 13
• From Massive to Flimsy

  The Declining Structural Fabric at Mohenjo-daro
  Helen Wilkins
  Chapter 14
• The Short-Horned Bull on the Indus Seals

  A Symbol of the Families in the Western Trade?
  Massimo Vidale
  Chapter 15
• Excavations at Gilund 2001-2003

  The Seal Impressions and Other Finds
  Vasant Shinde, Gregory L. Possehl, Marta E. Ameri
  Chapter 16
• Long-Distance Relations of the Iranian Highland Sites during the Late Chalcolithic Period

  New Evidence from the Joint Iranian-German Excavations at Arisman, Prov. Isfahan, Iran
  Barbara Helwing
  Chapter 17
• On the Exploitation of Copper Ores at Shahr-i Sokhta (Sistan, Iran) in the 3rd Millennium BC
  Massimo Vidale, D. Artioli, C. Guida, C. Giardino, A. Lazzari
  Chapter 18
• Deciphering the Intercultural Style?
  Sylvia Winkelmann
  Chapter 19
• The Late Bronze Age Chronology of Southern Uzbekistan

  A Reanalysis of the Funerary Evidence
  Mike Teufer
  Chapter 20
• Symbols of Early Swat (c. 1700-1400 BC)
  Giorgio Stacul
  Chapter 21
• Gogdara I and Beyond

  The Cultural Sequence of the non-Buddhist Rock Art in Swat. Preliminary Conclusions
  Luca Maria Olivieri
  Chapter 22
• New Evidence on the Pottery Sequence of Ghalegay (Swat, Pakistan)
  Emanuele Morigi, P. Bianchetti
  Chapter 23
• Evolution of the Political Relations of the Greek with their non-Greek Neighbours in Central Asia and North-Western India (4th century BC – 1st century AD)
  François Widemann
  Chapter 24
• The Early Indo-Greek Currency of Arachosia
  David W. Mac Dowall
  Chapter 25
• Kashmir Smast (Gandhara) and its Religious Significance

  Study Based on Epigraphic and other Antiquities from the Site
  M. Nasim Khan
  Chapter 26
• Some Important Trade Routes and Trading Centres of Jammu from Ancient Times to 10th Century AD
  Poonam Chaudhary
  Chapter 27
• The Signal Valley as Fa Hsien's route from Pamir to Darel

  Field Research in the Northern Areas of Pakistan 2001-2002
  Haruko Tsuchiya
  Chapter 28
• The Pottery of Khyinga-Khalun, Mustang District, Nepal
  Iken Paap
  Chapter 29
• Preliminary Result on the Pottery from Garab-Dzong, the Surroundings Settlements from Dzo-Khang and Bumche-Khang, District Mustang, Nepal
  Corinne Pohl-Thiblet
  Chapter 30
• Archaeological Excavations at Pipri, Nepalese Tarai
  Giovanni Verardi, Stefano Coccia
  Chapter 31
• Archaeological Research at Sisupalgarh, an Early Historic City in Eastern India
  Monica L. Smith
  Chapter 32
• Preliminary Report of the Third Field Season, 2002

  Contexting Early Historic Western Orissa
  Paul Yule, Pradeep K. Behera, Martin Brandtner, Diana Modarressi-Tehrani, Bijaya Kumar Rath
  Chapter 33
• The Ancient Indian City and the Thought Expressed in it
  Pëtr Andreevič Eltsov
  Chapter 34
• Early Agriculture of the Neolithic Vindhyas (North-Central India)
  Emma L. Harvey, J. N. Pal, M. C. Gupta, Dorian Q. Fuller
  Chapter 35
• Vegetation Context and Wood Exploitation in the Southern Neolithic

  Preliminary Evidence from Wood Charcoals
  Eleni Asouti, Ravi Korisettar, Dorian Q. Fuller
  Chapter 36
• Early Historic Agriculture in Southern Tamil Nadu

  Archaeobotanical Research at Mangudi, Kodumanal and Perur
  Miriam Cooke, Dorian Q. Fuller, K. Rajan
  Chapter 37
• Excavations in the Citadel of Ancient Mahagama (Tissamaharama/Sri Lanka)
  Hans-Joachim Weisshaar, W. Wijeyapala
  Chapter 38
• Pottery of so-called "Kaolin Fabric" at Tissamaharama-Citadel (Sri Lanka) in the 4th and 5th century AD
  Heidrun Schenk
  Chapter 39
• Beads from Tissamaharama, Sri Lanka

  Long Distance Contacts
  Anne Sibylle Hannibal-Deraniyagala
  Chapter 40
• The Earliest Inscribed "Coins" from Tissamaharama

  Why They Are not Truly Coins
  Reinhold Walburg
  Chapter 41
• Stone Images of the Standing Buddha from Mahagama (Sri Lanka)
  Falk Reitz
  Chapter 42
• Archaeological Investigations at Ambalantota 1997-1999 (Hambantota District, Southern Province, Sri Lanka)
  Bernd Steinbring
  Chapter 43
• Early Historic Specialisation and Standardisation

  the Technology of Rouletted Ware and Associated Wares at Anuradhapura
  Louise Ford, Robin Coningham
  Chapter 44
• Buddhist Aspects of the Imagery of Skanda in Gandhara and Central Asia
  Martha L. Carter
  Chapter 45
• Evidence Suggesting the Simultaneous Development of Two Forms of Avalokitesvara in Ancient Greater Gandhara

  A Preliminary Report
  Carolyn W. Schmidt
  Chapter 46
• Images of Avalokitesvara at Dharaut, Bihar
  Claudine Bautze-Picron
  Chapter 47
• A Bronze Votive Stupa of the Shahi Period

  Art, Faith and Ideology in Late-Antique Buddhism
  Anna Filigenzi
  Chapter 48
• Transfer of Merit in Gandharan Buddhism
  Nakao Odani
  Chapter 49
• Early Bronze Masks from Ancient Kashmir and the North-West Region
  John Siudmak
  Chapter 50
• Sun Images from Mathura

  Cult Icons or Emblems?
  Marion Frenger
  Chapter 51
• A Unique Narrative Stone Panel Illustrating Revanta
  Gouriswar Bhattacharya
  Chapter 52
• Comparative Studies and Dating Questions between Nepalese Sculpture and Painting

  The Case of Nepalese Buddhist Ritual Crowns
  Anne-Claire Juramie, Katherine Meahl-Blöndal
  Chapter 53
• Two Unpublished Bronze Hoards from Northern West Bengal, India
  Gautam Sengupta
  Chapter 54
• Paharpur in the 20s-30s

  A Pala Period Buddhist Shrine and Monastery Documented by a Collection of Photographic Plates
  Jean-Yves Breuil, Sandrine Gill
• Paharpur in the 20s–30s: A Pala Period Buddhist Shrine and Monastery Documented by a Collecon of Photographic Plates
  Jean-Yves Breuil
  Chapter 55
• Representations of the Jina's Birth and Enlightenment in Jaina Art, Architecture and Ritual
  Julia A. B. Hegewald
  Chapter 56
• The Riddle of the Four-Armed Marici Image from Udala, Orissa
  Gerd J. R. Mevissen
  Chapter 57
• The Early Royal Murals of Dungarpur, Rajasthan
  Joachim Karl Bautze
  Chapter 58
• Architectural Articulation of Medieval Temples in Maharashtra
  Gerard Foekema
  Chapter 59
• Tukkacci

  A Royal Cola Temple at the Beginning of the 12th Century
  Vincent Lefèvre
  Chapter 60
• Ceramic Production and Distribution in the Late 1st and Early 2nd Millennia AD Akra, Bannu Basin, NWFP
  Cameron A. Petrie
  Chapter 61
• Bagh-e Babur, Kabul

  Excavating a Mughal Garden
  Ute Franke-Vogt, Karin Bartl, Thomas Urban
  Chapter 62
• The Evolution of the Architectural Décor on the Quwwa al-Islam Mosque
  Daniel Redlinger
  Chapter 63
• Indian Sources of the Buraq Iconography
  Tiziana Lorenzetti
  Chapter 64
• Water in a Desert Landscape
  Michael W. Meister
  Chapter 65
• Colonial Visions

  Sir Mortimer Wheeler and Archaeological Representations in India (1944-48)
  Ashish Chadha
  Chapter 66
• List of Authors
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