TABLE OF CONTENTS Volume I
Preface and Acknowledgements Opening Addresses
v IX
Select Bibliography ofJohn Irwin
XVl1
Obituaries
xxv
Abbreviations .
xxvii
Editorial Remarks
XXIX
ListofContributors
XXXI
Proceedings ofPrevious Conferences
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W.R. BELCHER, Marine Subsistence ofthe Indus Valley Tradition - Fish Remains from Balakot
3
B. BARTHÉLEMY DE SAIZIEU & A. BOUQUILLON, Faience Beads ofthe Third Millennium BC in the Indus
17
P.c. lENKINs, The Pottery from Cemetery R37: Chronology and the Changing Social Structure ofHarappa Society
35
1.M. KENOYER & R.H. MEADOW, The Ravi Phase: A New Cultural Manifestation at Harappa
55
H.M.-L. MILLER, Reassessing the Urban Structure ofHarappa: Evidence from Craft Production Distribution
77
D.L. SOPER, Harappan Period Hearts: New Insights from Ethnoarchaeological Data.......................
101
M. VIDALE & H.M.-L. MILLER, On the Development ofIndus Technical Virtuosity and Its Relation to Social Structure .
115
L. COSTANTINI & A. LENTINI, Studies in the Vegetation History ofCentral Baluchistan, Pakistan: Palynological Investigations of a Neolithic Sequence at Mehrgarh
133
R. BESENVAL, New Data for the Chronology ofthe Protohistory ofKechMakran (Pakistan) from Miri Qalat 1996 and Shahi-Tump 1997 Field-Seasons
161
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U. FRANKE-VOGT, S. SHAMS UL-HAQ & M.H. K. KHATTAK, Archaeological Exploration in the Kanrach Valley (Las Bela, Balochistan)
V. MARCON & M. LECHEVALLIER, Lithic Industries of the Indo-Iranian Border - Technological Approach of Biade Debitage in the Assemblages of Mehrgarh, Nausharo and Miri Qalat in Balochistan, Pakistan C. JARRlGE, The Mature Indus Phase at Nausharo: Elements of Urban Infrastructure J.-F. JARRlGE, Mehrgarh Neolithic: New Excavations P.P. PETRONE, Mehrgarh: New Bio-Cultural Evidence from the Neo1ithic Graveyard :.............................................................. H.l MILLER, A Functional Typology for Metal Objects from Chanu-daro R.H. MEADOW & lM. KENOYER, The 'Tiny Steatite Seals' (Incised Steatite Tablets) of Harappa: Some Observations on Their Context and Dating S. WINKELMANN, Some New Ideas about the Possible Origin of the Anthropomorphic and Semi-human-creature Depictions on Harappan Seals lR. LUKACS & S.R. W AUMBE, Health, Climate, and Culture in Prehistoric India - Conflicting Conclusions from Archaeology and Anthropology? B.M. pANDE, Burzahom Beads .. E. OLIJDAM, Additional Evidence of a Late Second Millennium Lapis Lazuli Route: The Fullol Hoard (Afghanistan) B.E. HEMPHILL, Do Foreign Artifacts Mean Foreign People? A Skeletal Analysys of Anomalous Buria1s from the Period III Necropolis at Tepe Hissar . L.B. KIRCO, Burial Rite of Altyn Tepe in the 3rd Millennium N. SOLOVYOVA, The Wall-Painting ofIlgynly Tepe E. FIANDRA & C. PEPE, Typology and Distribution ofthe Administration Indicators in Eastem Residential Area of Shahr-i Sokhta during Period II (2800-2600 BC) - The Sea1ings G. CATTINI, Administrative Indicators in the Shahr-i Sokhta Eastem Residential Area ofPeriod II (2800-2600 BC) G.L. BONORA, C. DOMANIN, S. SALVATORI & A. SOLDINI, The Oldest Graves ofthe Shahr-i Sokhta Graveyard N. LANERI & S. DI PILATO, Searching for the Archaeological Evidence of Wheel Throwing at Ebla, Susa and Shahr-i Sokhta
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Volume II
M. FORTE, P. MOZZI & M. ZOCCHI, Preliminary Archaeological Map of Southem Sistan and Geoarchaeological Analysis: Remote Sensing Applications and 3D Virtual Landscape Reconstruction from Satellite Imageries
543
S.M.S. SAJJADI, Southem Sistan as Seen by Muslim Geographers and Historians
563
G. LOMBARDO, The Necropolis ofKangur-Tut: Aspects ofSapalli Farming Culture in Southem Tadjikistan in the Late Bronze Early Iron Age
579
M. RANIERI, The Development of Architectural Forms of Prehistoric Turkmenistan - A Perspective for the Evaluation of Social Complexity: Geometrical Aspects
593
K.A.R. KENNEDY, New Data for the Reassessment ofBio-Cultural Adaptations and Racial Affinities of Iron Age Populations of South India
617
H.-J. WEISSHAAR & W. WIJEYAPALA, Tissamaharama Project (Sri Lanka): Excavations in the Citadel Area
633
A.S. HANNIBAL-DERANIYAGALA, Beads trom Tissamaharama
647
H. SCHENK, Rouletted Ware and Other Imports ofTissamaharama ~ Observations on the Pottery Sequence from Southem Sri Lanka
653
M. JACOLI & G. VERARDI, Aerial Imagery, GIS and Predictive Models for Identifying Archaeological Sites, Tarai, Nepal................................
679
G. VERARDI & S. COCCIA, The 1997 Excavations at Gotihawa, Nepalese Tarai
697
M.I. PANNACCIONE APA & A.A. DI CASTRO, A Preliminary Classification and Chronological Sequence ofGotihawaPottery
717
W. DEITCH-VAN DER MEULEN, The Terracotta Human Figurines from Protohistoric Swat
739
G. STACUL, The Late 'Gandharan Grave' Complex and the Following Stage
747
S.V. DERANIYAGALA & M. ABEYRATNE, Radiocarbon Chronology of Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka: A Revised Age Estimate
759
M.L. SMITH, Economic and Social Interactions at an Early Historic Site: Recent Fieldwork at Kaundinyapura, India
793
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D. ALLIOS & S. ELAIGNE, 1ntroduction to the Pottery ofMahastan, Bangladesh
811
N. ODANI, New Discoveries from the Excavations at Ranigat, Pakistan..
831
F. KHAN, R. KNox, P. MAGEE & K. THOMAS, Archaeological Investigations at the Ancient City of Akra
843
P. CALLIERI, Decorated Pottery from the 1sIAO Excavations at Blr-Kotghwa.Q4ai (Swat, Pakistan, 2nd cento BC-15th cento AD)
857
M. DEEG, The Location ofFaxian's Kingdom of Jiecha
877
H. TSUCHIYA, Ancient Routes in Northern Pakistan l 996(II) and 1997(1)
889
1. NEELIS, Kharo~thI and BrahmI 1nscriptions from Hunza-Haldeikish: Sources for the Study ofLong-Distance Trade and Transmission of Buddhism '"
903
F. WIDEMANN, Scarcity of Precious Metals and Relative Chronology ofIndo-Greek and Related Coinages (1 st Century BC - 1st Century AD)
925
K. KARTTUNEN, Ex Occidente Lux
933
t A. HAKEMI, Comparison between tbe Plates ofShahdad and Other Plates that Exist in a Few Museums
943
t V. BEGLEY & S.E. SlDEBOTHAM, Archaeological Excavations at the 1ndoRoman Trading Port at Arikamedu, India: 1989-1992 .. M. MARSMAN, 1797-1997: 200 Years of Buddhist Archaeology in Andradesa - A Small History ofthe stupa Excavations
961 985
H. HARTEL, On the Dating ofPiprahwa Vases
lO Il
F. LUGLI, The Pottery from Simraongarh
1025
Volume III L.S. MARSADOLOV & R!. MARSAK, Early Indian Mirrors and the Problem ofthe Pre-Mauryan Figurative Art
1053
A. FILIGENZI, MarginaI Notes on the Buddhist Rock Sculptures of Swat
1065
K. TANABE, Kubera, Vaisrava.Qa and Brahma in Gandharan Great Departure Scenes
1087
C. WOODFORD SCHMIDT, Buddhist Art of Ancient Gandhara - Reassembling Long-Separated Buddha Triads and Iconographic Programs
1101
A.M. QUAGLIOTTI, A Gandharan Bodhisattva with Surya on the Headdress and Related Problems
1125
Table orContents H. BAKKER, Tala Revisited
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M. ZIN, Two Naga-Stories in the Oldest Paintings in Ajanta IX
1171
C. BAUTZE-PICRON, Nasik: The Late Mahayana Caves 2,15,20 & 23-24
1201
l BAUTZE, Vagisvari
1229
A. MIYAJI, A Bas-Relief of Eight-Anned Avalokitesvara as Saviour of Men, probably from Swat, Pakistan ..
1249
G.J.R. MEVISSEN, hat-pailgu Sanaiscara, the Lame Planetary God Saturn and His viihana.s
1267
R. MORRIS, Some 8th Century Temples of Gopakljetra and Their Relevance for an Assessment ofthe Date ofTelI-ka-Mandir in Gwalior
1299
M.W.MEISTER, Chronology ofTemples in the Salt Range, Pakistan
1321
G. BHATTACHARYA, The Enigmatic Pot
1341
E. ALLINGER, Some Problems about the Green Tara together with the Eight Great Dangers and the 21 Taras. The Indian Origins and Tibetan Resolutions
1367
H.f. NEUMANN, The 11th Century Wall-Paintings of the Rediscovered Caves ofDUI1-dkar in Western Tibet
1383
N. CELLl, Notes on Medieva1 Chinese Representations ofthe Life ofthe Buddha: Maya's Dream
1403
L. FEUGĂˆRE, Some Remarks about Three Paintings of Dunhuang in Pelliot's Collection
1421
R.M. CIMINO, The Battle ofGangvana in a Genre-Painting
1439
1A.B. HEGEWALD, Diversity and Development in South Asian Kw}qa Architecture
1455
R. BRUBAKER, The Infrastructure of Imperial Security at a Pre-colonial South Indian Capitai: Recent Research at Vijayanagara
1471
1M. FRITZ, Archaeological Research at Vijayanagara, 1995-1997..........
1489
C. BRANFOOT, Tempie Architecture in the Nayak-Period Madurai: The Ku!al Alagar Tempie
1505
H. SCHllDT, The Namputiri-Houses in Kerala: An Introducion to an Architectural Study
1515
c.M. RAVEN, Reawakening the Annual Bibliography of Indian Archaeology: The ABIA Project
1533