India an Archaeological History - 9780198064121

This book presents archaeological history from the palaeolithic beginnings to c. ad 300, when early historic India assumed its basic form. It lucidly reconstructs the historical developments of human-natural resource interaction in the subcontinent using maps, illustrations, and tables. The second edition updates the research to include new ideas and discoveries---of tools from the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic ages and human fossil finds---in Indian archaeology between 1998 and 2008.

This comprehensive and up to date book will be an essential reading for students and teachers of archaeology and ancient Indian history.

`This book strikes a fine balance between compilation and interpretation and is interspersed with thought-provoking comments, which sustain one's interest throughout. These qualities ... should render this text indispensable to any course on South Asian archaeology.'---MARG

`[This] book presents [archaeological] history in all its continuity and diversity... covering a vast area through a long period...'---The Hindu

`The difficulty of this exercise can be well appreciated...due to the long time span, the wide geographical-area, [and the] study of different aspects [of archaeological history of India]...'---Antiquity