EASAA 2005 TIMETABLE

Monday, 4 July 2005

9am Registration and Orientation (Clore Centre, The British Museum)
10.00am 11.00am Welcome Addresses (BP Lecture Theatre)
N. Macgregor (British Museum)
P. Ucko (Institute of Archaeology, UCL)
P. Robb (SOAS)
J. Cribb (BM)

11.30am 1pm Morning Session

INDO-IRANIAN BORDERLANDS PANEL
(Sackler Seminar Room)
Convenor: Morteza Hessari (National Museum of Iran) and Prof. Vasant Shinde (Deccan
College, Pune)

11.30am 5.30pm
Part I: French Archaeological Mission in Makran (Balochistan, Pakistan)
(11.30am 1.10pm)
11.35am 11.50am Roland Besenval and Aurore Didier
Plundering in the Indo-Iranian Borderlands (Afghanistan,
Pakistan and Iran). A case study: The Dasht Plain (KechMakran)
11.55am 12.10pm Vincent Marcon
Shahi-Tump, Balochistan, Pakistan: Results of the last two fieldcampaigns and first stratigraphical study
12.15pm 12.30pm Ccile Buquet
First presentation of Period II inhumations in Shahi-Tump
12.35pm 12.50pm Benjamin Mutin
Short Account of the pottery of Kech-Makran Period II: First
Preliminary Results
12.55pm 1.10pm Dr Sophie Mry and Dr James Blackman
Material analysis of Bronze age pottery samples from the
Makran sites, and comparisons with other assemblages from
Pakistan and Eastern Arabia
1.15pm 2pm Lunch Break

Part II: Iranian Research (2pm 5.30pm)

2.05pm 2.20pm

Loredana Mugavero (University of Genoa)

Polychrome ware: A variable figuration system in a cultural
continuity

2.25pm 2.40pm

Assad Bashokat
Survey of Zaboli Region, South-East Iran

2.45pm 3pm Morteza Hessari (National Museum of Iran) and Nima Bagheri
Tadi (University of Hamburg)
A marble human head from Jiroft, South-East Iran
3pm 3.30pm Coffee Break
3.30pm 3.45pm Morteza Hessari and Abolghasem Hatamy (University of Iran)
Shahr-e Babak petroglyphs, Kerman province, South-East Iran
3.50pm 4.05pm

Mehdi Mortezavi (University of Zahedan)

The economic role of complex societies of southeastern Iran
during the third millennium BC

4.10pm 4.25pm

Morteza Hessari and Abolghasem Hatamy

Soft-stone weights from Jiroft, south-eastern Iran

4.30pm 4.45pm Alireza Khosrowzadeh (Research Centre in Iranian Cultural

Heritage, Zahedan)
The settlement pattern of Bard Sir Plain from prehistoric to
Islamic period
4.50pm 5.05pm Morteaza Hessari, Mohammed Heidari and Hassan Akabri
(Research Centre in Iranian Cultural Heritage, Zahedan)
Recent archaeological surveys and excavations in Bazman
Region, Iranian Baluchistan
5.10pm 5.25pm

Discussion

12.30pm 2pm General Lunch Break

2pm 5pm Afternoon Sessions

MIND THE GAP PANEL

CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN SOUTH ASIAN ARCHAEOLOGY
(BP Lecture Theatre)
Convenors: Prof. Robin Coningham (University of Bradford) and Dr. Ruth Young (University
of Leicester)

2.00pm 5.30pm
2.00pm - 2.05pm Dr. Ruth Young (University of Leicester)
Introduction: The Importance of Comparative Studies
2.05pm - 2.25pm Prof. Rafique Mughal (Boston University)
The Late Harappan at Harappa: Re-analysis of Strata I & II of
Cemetery Hand Fresh Interpretation
2.30pm - 2.50pm Elke Rogersdotter (University of Umea)
The Forgotten: A proposal of how to approach Toy classified
Material of the Indus Civilization
2.55pm - 3.15pm Dr. K. Krishnan (MS University, Baroda)
Ceramic Analysis as a key tool in understanding technological
changes and continuity between major cultural phases in South
Asia
3.20pm - 3.40pm Dr. Piotr Eltsov (Harvard University)
The Idea of the Harappan City: From historical agents to
historical structure
3.45pm - 4.05pm Prof. Ihsan Ali (Head of Museums for NWFP, Pakistan)
Shedding light on the changing face of urbanism: What really
happens at the end of the Harappan? A case study of new
excavations from the Gomal Plain
4.10pm - 4.30pm Dr. Sunil Gupta (Allahabad University)
Trade, Polity and Urbanization: Continuities in the First and
Second Maritime Traditions on the western coastlands of South
Asia (2500 BC 300 AD)
4.30 pm 4.50pm Dr. Sudeshna Guha (University of Cambridge)
Practice and evidence of the Indus Civilization and Early Historical
India
4.40pm - 5.20pm Prof. Robin Coningham (University of Bradford)
Summary and conclusion: Continuity or change: Archaeology,
archaeologists and urban forms in South Asia

HIMALAYAN ETHNOARCHAEOLOGY PANEL

(Stevenson Theatre)
Convenors: Dr. Tadeuz Skorupski (Himachal Pradesh University) and Lindsay Zamponi
(Ph.D candidate, SOAS)

2.00pm 5.00pm
2.30pm 2.50pm Dr. John Clarke (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
The Tibetan Amulet Box, or Ga'u
2.55pm 3.15pm Lindsay Zamponi (PhD candidate, SOAS)
Issues and Conclusions Arising from an Examination and Analysis
of Ritual Implements of the dGe-lugs-pa Order of Tibetan
Buddhism
3.20pm 3.40pm Dr. A.K. Singh (Reader, Dept of History of Art, BHU,
Varanasi)
Western Himalayas wooden sculptures: Stylistic definition and
connections with the art of Kashmir
3.45pm 4.05pm Prof. L. S. Thakur (Dept of History, HP University, Simla)
"Wooden Sculpture of Vajrayana Buddhism from Kinnaur (Khunu)
during the bstan-pa phyi-dar: An Analysis of Recent Discoveries
and aSearch for the Emerging New 'Style'"
4.10pm 4.30pm Dr. Michael Willis (Curator, Dept of Asia, British Museum)
The Translation of Tibetan Dharani
4.35pm 4.55pm Dr. Richard Blurton (Curator, Dept of Asia, British Museum)
Recent Research in the Tawang District of Arunachal Pradesh.

6pm 8pm Evening Reception hosted by UCL at Gordon Square

Tuesday, 5 July 2005

9.30am 12.30pm Morning Session
TEMPLE IN SOUTH ASIA PANEL
(BP Lecture Theatre)
Convenors: Dr. Crispin Branfoot (De Montfort University, Leicester) and Prof. Adam Hardy
(University of Cardiff)

9.30am 5.00pm
9.35am 9.50am Michael W. Meister (University of Pennsylvania)
Early Architecture and its Transformations: Kanganhalli
9.55am 10.10am Enamul Haque (Dhaka)
New Evidence on Early Architecture of Bengal
10.15am 10.30am M. Nasim Khan (University of Peshawar, Pakistan)
A Shaivite Temple at Kashmir Smast
10.35am 10.50amJean-Yves Breuil (INRAP) and Sandrine Gill (Paris)
New researches on Paharpur Buddhist monastery (North
Bengal)
10.55am 11.10am M. Mizanur Rashid and Heng Chye Kiang (Singapore)
A Study of the Development of the Vihara Archetype in Medieval
Bengal, on the Basis of the Archaeological Findings
11.15am 11.30amFalk Reitz (Freie University, Berlin)
The Cruciform Temple Type of the Buddhists in Comparison with
that of the Hindus
11.35am 11.50amVerena Widorn (University of Vienna)
The Ritual Function of the Decorative Portals of the 8th 10th
Century in Chamba State and the Himalayan Area: The
Archaeological Evidence
11.55am 12.10pm Christiane Papa-Kalantari (University of Vienna)
The Vault of Heaven: Some Observations on the Function and
Symbolism of Ceiling Decorations in Indian Hill Architecture
12.15pm 12.30pm Helmut F. Neumann (Independent Scholar)
Defining the Sacred Space: Painted Ceilings in Dung-dkar and
Tsaparang in Western Tibet

12.30pm 2pm Lunch Break

2.05pm 2.20pm Adam Hardy (University of Cardiff)
Part and Whole: the Story of the Horseshoe Arch
2.25pm 2.40pmAjay Khare (BITS, Mesra, Ranchi, India)
Use of the Valabhi mode of Nagara Architecture in Bengal during
the Pala Period
2.45pm 3.00pm Gerard Foekema (Amsterdam)
Architectural Features of the Surviving Medieval Temples of
Maharashtra
3.05pm 3.20pm Anne Casile (Paris III)
Newly Discovered Temple Remains at Ramgarh
3.25pm 3.40pm Leslie Orr (Concordia University, Montreal)
Cholas, Pandyas, and Imperial Temple Culture in Medieval
Tamilnadu
3.45pm 4.00pm Crispin Branfoot (De Montfort University, Leicester)
Regional pasts, imperial present: Vijayanagara
architecture in Karnataka

temple

4.05pm 4.20pm Julia A. B. Hegewald (Oxford)

Domes, Tombs and Minarets: Islamic Influences in Jaina
Architecture
4.25pm 4.40pm Dr. Shikha Jain
Vaishnava Havelis in Rajasthan: Origin and Continuity of a
Temple Typology
4.45pm 5.00pm Discussion

TECHNOLOGY, REGIONAL INTERACTION AND THE INDUS

CIVILISATION PANEL
(Sackler Seminar Room)
Convenors: Prof. J. Mark Kenoyer (Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin,
Madison, USA) and Dr. Rita Wright (Dept. of Anthropology, New York University, USA)

9.30am 5.00pm
9.30am 9.50 am Rita Wright (Dept of Anthropology, New York University,
USA)
Precursors to urbanism in Beas regional settlements
9.50am 10.10 am Qassid Mallah (Khairpur University, Sindh, Pakistan)
Specialized craft production and trade between periphery and core
area sites from Hakra to Harappan period: A view from the Thar
Desert
10.10am 10.30 am Hideo Kondo et al (Tokai University, Japan)
Kot Diji Phase reconsidered: A preliminary report
10.30am 10.50 am Dr. Fazal Dad Kakar (Director-General of Archaeology and
Museums, Pakistan)
Contributions of Baluchistan in the Formation of the Indus
Civilization: Craft and Technology Traditions
10.50am 11.10 am Dr. Kuldeep Bhan (MS University, Baroda, India)
Some important aspects of craft production and organization in
Harappan tradition of Gujarat
11.10am 11.30 am Prof. J. Mark Kenoyer (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Indus technology and interaction networks: Textiles, transport and
long distance trade
11.30am 11.50 am Irene Good (Peabody Museum, Harvard University, USA)
Evidence for early silk use in the Indus Valley
11.50am 12.30 pm Discussion
12.30pm 2.00 pm Lunch Break
2.00pm 2.20 pm Randall Law (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
Indus rock and mineral trade networks: The view from Harappa
2.20pm 2.40 pm Massimo Vidale (IsMEO, Rome, Italy)
Development of metallurgy and other technologies in the KopetDagh Piedmont Strip (c. 4000-2000 BC)
2.40pm 3.00pm Benot Mille & David Bourgarit (Muse Guimet, UMR 9993 du
CNRS); Jrme-F. Haquet & R. Besenval (Centre de

Recherche et de Restauration des Muses de France, UMR 171

du CNRS)
From the 7th to the 2nd millennium BC in Balochistan (Pakistan):
The development of copper metallurgy before and during the Indus
Civilisation
3.00 pm 3.20 pm Brett C. Hoffman et al (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
The procurement of copper during the Harappan Period: New
evidence from Pb isotope analysis
3.20pm 3.40 pm Gurudev Das Allin (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Harappan debitage analysis: Discriminating primary craft
production activity from secondary deposition
3.40pm 4.00 pm Dennys Frenez (University of Bologna, Italy)
The Lothal Sealings: Evidence for administrative technology and
procedures from an Indus Civilization site in Gujarat
4.00 pm 4.20 pm G.M. Shar (Khairpur University, Sindh)
The role of standardized measurement units in Indus Period
Technologies, Architecture, Town Planning, Trade and Commerce
4.20pm 4.40pm Sharri Clark (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA)
Manufacturing ideology: The construction of the anthropomorphic
terracotta figurines from Harappa
4.00 pm 5.00 pm Akinori Uesugi (Kansai University, Osaka, Japan)
Reconsideration of Late or Post Harappan Phase in northern
part of the Indian Subcontinent

NUMISMATIC, LITERARY AND EPIGRAPHIC EVIDENCE ON

CHRONOLOGY IN GANDHARA PANEL
(Stevenson Theatre)
Convenor: Prof. Osmund Bopearachchi (CNRS, Paris)

9.30am 12.30pm
9.30am 9.45am Prof. Osmund Bopearachchi (CNRS, Paris)
Introduction: Numismatic, Literary and Epigraphic Evidence on
Chronology in Gandhara
9.50am 10.05am Prof. A.D.H. Bivar (Professor Emeritus, SOAS)
Notes on the Vikrama Era
10.10am 10.25am Dr. David W. MacDowall (Independent Scholar, UK)
Links between Coinage and the Greek Eras Used in Gandhara
10.30am 10.45am Bob Senior (Independent Scholar, UK)
Epigraphic and Numismatic Evidence on the Chronology of
Gandhara
10.45am 11.15am Coffee Break
11.15am 11.30am Prof. Harry Falk (Freie Universitt, Berlin)
Another inscribed reliquary vase from Wardak, Afghanistan
11.35am 11.50am Dr. Michael Alram (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)
From the Rabatak Inscription to the Sasanian Rock Relief of Ragi Bibi: Problems of Chronology in the History of Greater
Gandhara
11.55am 12.10am Dr. Nikolaus Schindel (Austrian Academy of Sciences,
Vienna)
The Chronology of the Sasanian Kushanshahs
12.15pm 12.30pm Discussion

ISSUES IN GANGETIC ARCHAEOLOGY PANEL

(Moser Seminar Room)
Convenor: Dr Robert Harding (Institute of Archaeology, UCL, London)

9.30am 12.30pm
9.35 am 9.55 am Rakesh Tewari (U.P. State Archaeology Department)
Changing perspectives in archaeology of the Ganga Plain
9.55 am 10.15 am D. Allios (Maitre de conferences, Univ Rennes II & Md. S.
Alam, (Regional director, Dhaka division)
Excavations at Mahasthangarh: new results
10.15 am 10.30 am Dr. Barbara Faticoni
Bairagi Bhita: an intra muros temple from Mahasthangarh
10.30 am 10.45 am Dr. O.P. Srivastav: Centre of Advanced Study, Department
of History, Aligarh Muslim University
Terracotta discs of PGW period: A concept of primitive coins
10.45 am 11.05 am Ravindra N. Singh: (Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi)
The archaeology of Middle Ganga plain: a note on copper
objects from Imlidih Khurd, Gorakhpur, India
11.15 am 11.35 am Liliana Camarda & Daniela De Simone
Early ceramic assemblages of Sarayupar in the light of the
excavations at Gotihawa, Nepalese Terai
11.35 am 11.50 am Abhishek Singh (Ph.D candidate SOAS, London)
An archaeological study of ritual and pilgrimage at Bodhgaya
11.50 am 12.10 pm Jason Hawkes (Ph.D candidate, Department of
Archaeology, Cambridge)
Bharhut: A reassessment
12.10 pm 12.30 pm Prof. Paul Yule (Heidelberg University)
New results on Early Historic fortification
12.30 pm 12.50 pm Rakesh K. Srivastava: U.P. State Archaeology Department
Storage bins from Chalcolithic deposits at Lahuradewa

12.30pm 2pm General Lunch Break at SOAS (Brunei Gallery Caf)

Publications exhibition and sale in Brunei Gallery

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2pm 5pm Afternoon Sessions

ISSUES IN NORTHWESTERN ART & ICONOGRAPHY PANEL

(Stevenson Theatre)
Convenors: Dr Martha Carter and Dr. Carolyn Schmidt

2.00pm 5.00pm

2.05 pm 2.25 pm Dr. Christine Frohlich

A study of some deities in Indo-Scythian and Indo-Parthian
coinages
2.25 pm 2.45 pm Prof. Katsumi Tanabe (Faculty of Policy Studies, Chuo
University)
Not the Buddha but Zeus on the gold token from Tillya-tepe
2.45 pm 3.05 pm Chantal Fabregues
Greek and Graeco-Roman jewellery from Bactria and Gandhara
3.05 pm 3.25 pm Dr. Monika Zin: Institut fr Indologie, Munich
Vajrapani in the narrative reliefs
3.25 pm 3.45 pm Carolyn Woodford Schmidt, Ph.D.
Hieratic, hierarchical reliefs and stelae from Sahr -Bahlol: a
typological study
3.45 pm 4.00 pm Coffee Break
4.00 pm 4.20 pm Dr. Martha L. Carter
Indo-Scythian Buddhists in Han Dynasty China: The visual
evidence and its significance

4.20 pm 4.40 pm Prof. Haruko Tsuchiya: University of California, Berkeley

The Gates to the Darel Valley from the Singal Valley, the
Batakhun & the Yajur Passes: field research in northern Pakistan
in tracing Fa Hsiens route from Pamir to Darel, 2003 & 2004.
4.40 pm 5.00 pm Rachel Mairs, Ph.D candidate, University of Cambridge
Grid-Planningat Taxila
5.00 pm 5.15 pm Discussion

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TIBETAN EPIGRAPHY AND PETROGLYPHS PANEL

(Moser Seminar Room)
Convenor: Philip Denwood (Dept. of Art & Archaeology, SOAS, University of London)

2.00pm 5.00pm
2.00 pm - 2.40 pm Luca Maria Olivieri (IsIAO, Rome)
Recent discoveries of rock-carvings and rock- artefacts from Swat
valley (Pakistan)
2.40 pm - 3.20 pm Prof. Laxman S. Thakur (Himachal Pradesh University)
Petroglyphs and the Bonpos of the Western Himalayas
3.20 pm-3.50 pm Dr. Philip Denwood (SOAS)
The Tibetans in the western Himalaya and Karakoram, 7th-11th
cnturies: rock art and Inscriptions
3.50 pm 4.10 pm Coffee Break
4.10 pm - 4.50 pm Kurt Tropper (Vienna)
New Evidence on the "Renovation Inscription" at Tabo Monastery

5pm 6pm Informal Gathering in the BM Great Court

6.30pm 8pm Lecture by Dr. Tigran Mkrtychev (State Museum of

Oriental Art, Moscow), hosted by the Circle of Inner Asian Art
(CIAA) at SOAS

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Wednesday, 6 July 2005

9.30am 12.30pm Morning Session

NEW RESEARCH ON PRE-MUGHAL ISLAMIC MATERIAL CULTURE IN

SOUTH ASIA PANEL
(BP Lecture Theatre)
Convenors: Dr. Elizabeth Lambourn (Senior Research Fellow, De Montfort University and
Research Fellow, SOAS) and Finbar Flood (Associate Professor, New York University)

9.30am 4.30pm
9.30 am - 9.40 am Welcome and introduction to the panel
9.40 am - 10.00 am Dr. Alka Patel, Senior Fellow, American Institute of Indian
Studies, Gurgaon, India
From Province to Sultanate - The Architecture of Gujarat during
the mid-12th through 16th Centuries
10.00 am - 10.20 am Sumesh Modi, Consultant to Heritage Trust Baroda
Champaner-Pavagadh World Heritage Site Project,
Vadodara, Gujarat, India
Sultanate Water Systems of Chmpner-Pvgadh - Tracing the
Footprints
10.20 am - 10.40 am Sara Keller, Building archaeologist, Paris, France
Form and function in the Indo-Islamic architecture of
Ahmedabad (Gujarat, India)
10.40 am - 11.00 am Discussion and Coffee Break
11.00 am - 11.20 am Michelle Rein, PhD candidate University of Pennsylvania,
USA
The Function of the Word: Quranic Inscriptions on Early
Sultanate Mosques
11.20 am - 11.40 am Dr. Thalia Kennedy, London
The Late Sultanate Architecture at Mandu, Madhya Pradesh
11.40 am - 12.00 noon Mark Brand, Cambridge University
Mughal Contemporaries and Pre-Mughal Continuities in the
Deccan: The survival of pre-Islamic ritual topography in
Bijapur and Nauraspur
12.00 noon - 12.30 pm Discussion

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12.30 pm - 13.30 pm Lunch Break

13.30 pm - 13.50 pm Annabelle Collinet Muse du Louvre Paris, France
Ceramics in Sind during the Islamic period : material from
Central and Lower Sind, Pakistan
13.50 pm - 14.10 pm Ms. Nargis Rashid, Associate Professor General History
Department, University of Karachi, Pakistan
Banbhore the lost city & the ancient trade links.
14.10 pm - 14.30 pm Dr. Sutapa Sinha, Fellow Centre for Archaeological Studies
and Training, Eastern India, Kolkata, India
Inland Trade Routes of Bengal and Neighbouring Areas During
the Sultanate Period (1205-1576 CE). The Evidence of CoinHoards.
14.30 pm - 14.50 pm Professor Abdul Rehman, Department of Architecture
University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan
Sources for the study of Sultanate Period Architecture in
Pakistan: Zoroastrian architecture in Baluchistan and Arab and
Persian influences along the Baluchi trade routes
14.50 pm - 15.15 pm Emily Shovelton, PhD candidate, SOAS, University of
London
The conundrum of 15th century Sultanate painting
15.15 pm - 15.45 pm Discussion and concluding remarks
15.45 pm Coffee Break

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HEPTHALITES PANEL
(Stevenson Theatre)
Convenors: Dr. Madhuvanti Ghose (Dept. Of Art & Archaeology, SOAS, London) and Dr.
Etienne de la Vaissire (EPHE, Paris)

9.30am 4.00pm
9.35am9.55am Dr Etienne de la Vaissire (EPHE, Paris)
Rethinking the Hephthalites: Political and Ethnic denominations in
Central Asia
10am10.20am Prof. Nicholas Sims-Williams (SOAS, London)
The Hephthalites in the Bactrian documents
10.25 am -10.45 am Mag. Klaus Vondrovec (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Numismatic evidence of the Hephthalites
10.45 am11.15 am Coffee Break
11.20 am11.40 am Dr Judith A. Lerner (New York, USA)
Hephthalite images on the Bactrian sealings and elsewhere
11.45 am12.05 pm Dr Tigran Mkrtychev and Iliya Ahmedov (Moscow)
Manych bowl
12.10 pm12.30 pm Questions
12.30pm1.30pm Lunch Break
1.35pm1.55pm Prof. Frantz Grenet and Pnlope Riboud (CNRS, Paris)
The Hephthalite empire as reflected in the Sogdian funerary reliefs
from Northern China
2pm2.20pm Prof. Deborah Klimburg-Salter (University of Vienna, Austria)
Western Turks as Patrons of Buddhist Monuments in the Hindu
Kush: Reconsidering the Hephtalite Contribution
2.25pm2.45pm Dr M. Nasim Khan (University of Peshawar, Pakistan)
Hephthalites in Gandhara: Some more archaeological evidences
2.50pm 3.10pm Dr Madhuvanti Ghose (SOAS, London)
Is there a Hephthalite style in Indian art?
3.15pm 3.30pm Questions
3.30pm 4pm Discussion

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ECONOMIES IN SOUTH ASIA PANEL

(Sackler Seminar Room)
Convenors: Dorian Q. Fuller (Institute of Archaeology, University College London) and Dr.
Richard Meadow (Director, Harappa Archaeological Project, Peabody Museum, Harvard
University)

9.30am 4.30pm
9.30am 9.55am Preston Miracle (University of Cambridge)
The Stability of Hunting and Gathering in the Prehistory of South
India
9.55am 10.20am Dorian Fuller (UCL) and Nicole Boivin (Universit de Paris X)
From domestic economy to political economy: A framework for
thinking about changes in artefacts and agriculture in prehistoric
South India
10.20am 10.45am S. Rama Krisana Pisipaty (Kanchipuram)
Socio-cultural transformation in Early Bronze Age: a case study of
Sindh region
10.45am 11.15am Coffee Break
11.15am 11.40am Dr. Bernard Gratuze and Prof. Marie-Franoise Boussac
Analysis of glass beads from Bangladesh and north-east of India:
Application to the study of glass trade
11.40am 12.05pm R.K. Mohanty (Deccan College, Pune)
Economics and Technology of Bead Production at the Early Iron
Age and Early historic Site of Mahurjhari, Central India
12.05pm12.30pm Arunima Kashyap (Michigan State University) and Vasant
Shinde (Deccan College, Pune)
Significance of Copper Residue on Microliths from the
Mesolithic site of Bagor, Rajasthan, India
12.30pm 1.30pm Lunch Break
1.30pm 1.55pm Ajita Patel & Richard H. Meadow (Peabody Museum,
Harvard)
A comparative macro-view of Harappan animal economies
1.55pm 2.20pm Bradley A. Chase (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
A First Look at the Bones from Bagasra
2.20pm 2.45pm Norbert Benecke (Deutsches Archologisches Institut, Berlin)
Animal Husbandry, Hunting and Fishing in ancient Mahagama
(Tissamaharama, Sri Lanka)

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2.45pm 3.10pm Dr. Margareta Tengberg (University of Paris I-PanthonSorbonne)

Exploitation and Use of Plants in the Halil Valley during the
Bronze Age. First Results from the Archaeobotanical Analysis at
Kunar Sandal A and B, South-East Iran
3.10pm 3.30pm Coffee Break
3.30pm 3.55pm Emma Harvey (Institute of Archaeology, UCL)
Exploring new frontiers: Archaeobotanical investigation of
prehistoric sites in Orissa
3.55pm 4.20pm M.L. Smith (UCLA) and R.K. Mohanty (Deccan College, Pune)
Excavations at Sisupalgarh, an Early Historic City in Eastern
India

12.30pm 1.30pm General Lunch Break

2pm 5pm Afternoon Sessions
4.30pm Exit British Museum
5.30pm Keynote Lecture by Professor Rafique Mughal at the
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
6.30pm Drinks at the V&A

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Thursday, 7 July 2005

9.30am 12.30pm Morning Sessions

ARCHAEOLOGY OF RELIGION: ISSUES IN HINDU AND BUDDHIST

ICONOGRAPHY
(BP Theatre)
Convenors: Robert Harding (UCL Institute of Archaeology); Dr. Claudine Bautze-Picron; Dr.
John Guy (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)

9.30 5.00
9.35 am 9.55 am Nakao Odani
The banquet scene on the base of a seated Buddha in Gandhara
9.55 am 10.15 am Martina Stoye: Freie Universitt Berlin
The Birth of the Buddha in Gandharan art: on the Western
origin of its iconographic nucleus and resulting implications for
textual and art history of the Buddhist Saviour's nativity episode
10.15 am 10.30 am J. Sadik Sherrier:
A remarkable Gandharan relief of Buddha and the Stupa
10.30 10.50 Dr. Anna Filigenzi
International trends in the late Buddhist art - some reflections on the
sanctuary of Tapa Sardar
10.50 11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 am 11.20 am Doris M. Srinivasin
Imaging Balarama: fusing folk lore and hero myths into a
Vaisnava icon
11.20 am 11.50 am Prof. Hans Bakker (University of Groningen)
A funerary monument of Prabhavati Gupta?
11.50 am 12.10 am Dr. Gouriswar Bhattacharya
Ganesha with a dagger
12.10 pm 12.30 pm Dr. Gerd J.R. Mevissen: (Museum fr Indische Kunst)
A unique Visnu sculpture from Bihar in the National Museum
of Nepal, Kathmandu
12.30 pm 2.00 pm Lunch Break
2.35 pm 2.55 pm Dr. Claudine Bautze-Picron

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Buddhist book-covers from Eastern India: the book-covers of the manuscript SL68 at
the Collge de France, Paris
2.55 pm 3.15 pm Dr. Eva Allinger: (Institut fr Sdasien-Tibet- und
Buddhismuskunde Universitt Wien)
An early Nepalese Gandavyuhasutra manuscript. An attempt to
establish connections between the text and the illuminations.
3.15 pm 3.35 pm Dr. Vincent Lefvre (Muse Guimet)
The portraits of the Chola King Rajaraja I
3.35 pm 3.50 pm Achinto Sen-Gupta
Iconographic Comparison between Burmese Buddhist "Andagu"
and (burnt) clay plaques.
3.50 pm 4.00 pm Coffee Break
4.00 pm 4.20 pm Dr. Archana Verma (JNU, New Delhi)
Archaeology and heroic discourse in India
4.20 pm 4.35 pm Anne Casile (Paris III)
The reclined devi from Badoh: goddess of the city?
4.35 pm - 4.55 pm Dr. Christian Luczanits, Vienna - Berkeley
A first glance on early Drigung painting
4.55 pm5.10 pm Brigitte Khan Majlis, Cologne
Gandabherunda, the monsterbird which feeds on elephants: enigmatic scenes on old
Indian cotton textiles

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PUNCH-MARKED COINS
(Sackler Seminar Room)
Convenors: Dr. Shailendra Bhandare, Asst. Keeper, Heberden Coin Room, Ashmolean
Museum & Joe Cribb, Department of Coins and Medals, British Museum

9.30 12.30
9.35 am 10.00 am Dr. Shailendra Bhandare (Ashmolean Museum)
Silver Punch-Marked Coins of the "Archaic" series: Approaches
to Classification
10.00 am 10.25 am Rehan Ahmed (Research Officer, IIRNS, Nasik)
Imperial Silver Punch-Marked Coin Hoards from Bihar: An
Analysis of the Coin Types
10.25 am 10.45 am Susmita Bose-Majumdar (University of Calcutta)
Punch-Marked Coins of the Barikot Hoard
10.45 am11.00 am Coffee Break
11.00 am 11.20 am .Elizabeth Errington, Dept. of Coins and Medals, British
Museum
Title to be announced
11.20 am 11.45 am Maryse Blet-Lemarquand and Jean-Noel Barrandon,
CNRS, IRAMAT, Centre Ernest-Babelon, Orleans, France
Imperial Mauryan Punch-Marked Coins and their Copper
Imitations: First Analytical Insight
11.45 am 12.10 pm Amiteshwar Jha, Director, IIRNS, Nasik, India
Copper Punch-Marked Coins vis-a-vis Silver Punch-marked
Coins: Investigating the Links, Typology, Sequence and
Distribution
12.10 pm 12.30 Prof. Sufi Mostafizur Rahman, Department of Archaeology,
Jahangirnagar University
A preliminary study on Wari-Bateshwar silver punch-marked coins

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THE CULTURAL DIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN SOUTH ASIA AT

THE TIME OF THE INDUS CIVILIZATION
(Stevenson Theatre)
Convenors: Prof. Gregory Possehl (University of Pennsylvania) and Prof. Vasant Shinde:
Deccan College

9.30 12.30

9.15 am 9.35 am Prof. Maurizio Tosi: University of Bologna

Title to be announced
9. 35 am 9.55 am Dr. Holly Pittman, University of Pennsylvania
Glyptic evidence from Konar Sandal South in Jiroft (Iran)
9. 55 am 10.05 am Dr. Ute Franke-Vogt (DAI-Eurasienb-Abteilung)
Sohr Damb/Nal: new results from the excavations 2004 and
2005
10.05 am 10.20 am Dr. Jochen Grsdorf (DAI-Eurasienb-Abteilung)
New radiocarbon dates from Sohr Damb/Nal, Balochistan
10.20 am 10.35 am Stephanie Langer (DAI-Eurasienb-Abteilung)
The pottery assemblage of Period III from Sohr Damb/ Nal,
Balochistan
10.35 am 10.45 am Dr. Cameron Petrie (Department of Archaeology,
Cambridge) & Dr. Justin Morris: The British Museum
Ceramic production and distribution during the Later
Prehistoric Sheri Khan Tarakai and Tochi-Gomal Phases of the
Bannu Region, NWFP, Pakistan
10.45 am 11.05 am Shweta Sinha Deshpande: Deccan College, Pune & Vasant
Shinde: Deccan College, Pune
Chalcolithic culture of Mewar, the Harappans and
contemporary cultures of Western and Southern India: the
nature and extent of their interactions and influences
11.05 am 11.20 am Coffee Break
11.20 am 11.40 am Marta Ameri: Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
The seal impressions from Gilund: evidence of administration
and contact in Chalcolithic Western India
11.40 am 12.00 noon Uzma Z. Rizvi: University of Pennsylvania
Networks outside of the Indus: re-defining the political
economy of the Ganeshwar-Jodhpura Cultural Complex
12.00 noon 12.20 am Praveena Gullapalli: University of Pennsylvania

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The organization of iron production in southeastern

Rajasthan during the late first millennium BC
12.20 12.40 Dr. Anup Mishra (Department of Ancient History and Culture,
M.J.P. Rohilkhand University, Bareilly)
Chalcolithic pottery technology of Ahar culture with special reference
to Balathal, Rajasthan

12.30pm 1.30pm General Lunch Break

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2pm 5pm Afternoon Sessions

THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF SOUTH INDIAN LANDSCAPES

(Stevenson Theatre)
Convenors: Dorian Q Fuller and Prof. Ravi Korisettar (Chair)

1.30 5.00
1:30 pm-1:50 pm Jamie Hampson, David Robinson and Dr. Christopher
Chippindale (Department of Archaeology, Cambridge)
Making a record of a direct visual record: rock-art research in Kurnool
District.
1:55 pm - 2:15 pm John M Fritz (University of Pennsylvania)
Game boards at Vijayanagara
2:20 pm -2:40 pm David Robinson
Landscapes, soundscapes, and traditions of practice: The rock art
of Hiregudda Hill and environs, Bellary.
2:45 pm-3:05 pm Dr. Eleni Asouti (UCL Institute of Archaeology)
Understanding Neolithic landscapes of South India:
archaeobotanical data versus speculation
3:10 pm -3:30 pm Prof. Barry Lewis (Department of Anthropology, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois)
Village Defences of the Central Karnataka Maidan, South India,
1600-1800
3:40 pm-4:10 pm Coffee Break
4:10 pm -4:30 pm Prof. Marco Madella (Department of Archaeology and
Anthropology, Instituci Mil i Fontanals, Spanish Council for
Scientific Research)
Neolithic Agro-pastoral Landscapes in South India: Insights on
Seasonality and Territory Use from the Ashmound Evidence
4:35 pm - 4:55 pm Dr. Nicole Boivin (Maison de lArchologie et de lEthnologie,
Universit de Paris X) & Dr. Dorian Fuller, Institute of Archaeology,
University College London
Landscape, time and the creation of place in Neolithic South India
5:00 pm - 5:20 pm K. P. Rao (University of Hyderabad)
Recent Evidence from Gachibowli: A Megalithic Site

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5:25 pm - 5:45 pm Prof. Carla M. Sinopoli (Department of Anthropology,

University of Michigan)
Late Prehistoric and Early Historic Landscapes of the
Tungabhadra Corridor

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ARYANS, HARVESTERS AND NOMADS

(Moser Seminar Room)
Convenor: Prof. Asko Parpola: Department of Asian & African Studies University of Helsinki

2.00 5.00
2.05 pm 2.30 pm Ihsan Ali: Directorate of Archaeology & Museums,
Government of NWFP & Muhammad Zahir: Lecturer, Government College,
Peshawar
Excavations at Parwak, Chitral - Pakistan.
2.30 pm 2.55 pm E. Kuzmina: Institute for Cultural Research, Russian
Academy of Sciences
The Vedic Aryans' burial rites and their archaeological parallels
2.55 pm 3.20 pm Emanuele Morigi: Conservazione dei Beni Culturali, Italy
The evolution of the moulding techniques in the ceramic sequence
of the Swat Valley (North-West Pakistan)
3.20 pm 3.45 pm Prof. Asko Parpola: Department of Asian & African Studies
University of Helsinki
The face urns of Gandhra and the cult of the Nsatyas
3.45 pm 4.00 pm Coffee Break
4.10 pm 4.35 pm Prof. Giorgio Stacul: University of Trieste
Stone 'harvesters' of neolithic tradition from northern IndoPakistani valleys
4.35 pm 5.00 pm N. Vinogradova: Russian Akademie Nauk Institut
Vostokovedeniya & E. Kuzmina: Institute for Cultural Research, Russian
Academy of Sciences
Chronology of Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Monuments in the
Northern Bactria

Excursion to St. Pauls Cathedral, The Globe Theatre or the Tate

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Friday, 6 July 2005

9.30am 12.30pm Morning Session

INDIAN PALACE ARCHITECTURE OF THE 18th AND 19th CENTURIES

PANEL
(Sackler Seminar Room)
Convenor: Dr. Jennifer Howes (The British Library, London)

9.30am 12.30pm
9.35am 9.55am Jennifer Howes (The British Library, London)
The British History of the Palace at Madurai
10am 10.20am

John Falconer (The British Library, London)

Early British Photography of South Indian Palaces

10.25am 10.45am Sophie Gordon (Ph.D candidate, SOAS)

The lives of Indian buildings: Uncovering the history of
Lucknow's palaces
10.45am 11.15am Coffee Break
11.15am 11.35amAmin Jaffer ( Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
The Aina Mahal in Kutch
11.40am 12.00pm Rosie Llewellyn-Jones
The Lucknow Palaces, India 1775-1856
12.05pm 12.25pmGeorge Michell
Falaknuma, Hyderabad

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PREHISTORIC TECHNOLOGIES AND CULTURAL TRADITIONS

(Stevenson Theatre)
Convenors: Michael D. Petraglia: Lecturer, Biological Anthropology, Cambridge
Dorian Q Fuller: Lecturer, UCL Institute of Archaeology

9.30 am- 12.30 pm

9.30 am 9.50 am Dr. Michael D. Petraglia: Leverhulme Centre for Human
Evolutionary Studies, Cambridge
The South Asian Palaeolithic: New Insights on Hominid
Cognition, Behaviour and Dispersals
9.50 am 10.10 am Hannah V. A. James: Department of Biological
Anthropology, University of Cambridge
Lithics, Symbolism and the Emergence of Modern Human
Behaviour within South Asia
10.10 am 10.30 am Sacha Jones: Department of Biological Anthropology,
University of Cambridge
In the face of adversity? Hominin population dynamics in Late
Pleistocene India
10.30 am 10.50 am Dr. Salim: Lahore
Lower Palaeolithic in the Soan Valley Rawalpindi, Pakistan
10.50 am 11.20 am Dr. S. M. K. Ahsan: University of Dhaka
Cultural tradition of the prehistoric fossil wood records of
Bangladesh: An investigation into its problems, correlations
and prospects
11.20 am 11.50 am Roberto Micheli & Massimo Vidale
First possible evidence of Paleolithic tools from the Swat valley
11.50 am 12.10 pm Dr. Vijay Sathe: Department of Archaeology, Deccan
College Postgraduate and Research Institute, Pune
Contexts of faunal assemblages and changed perspectives
12.10 am 12.30 pm Ceri Shipton: Department of Biological Anthropology,
Cambridge
Cognition and sociality in the Indian Acheulean
12.30 pm 12.50 pm Prof. Ravi Korisettar: Karnatak University, Dharwad
Understanding early human colonization patterns in
Peninsular South India: Geologic and geomorphic perspectives

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CULTURAL HERITAGE AND MUSEUM COLLECTIONS

(BP Theatre)
Convenors: Dr. K.K. Chakravarty (National Museum of India, Delhi) & Dr. John Guy
(Victoria and Albert Museum, London)

9.30 am 12.30 pm
9.35 am 10.00 am Dr. Poonam Chaudhary (Department of History, University
of Jammu)
Cultural Heritage of Jammu and Kashmir State in Museums and
Libraries: Preservation Concerns
10.00 am 10.25 a.m. Dr. Shahida Perven (UNESCO Bangladesh)
Cultural Heritage Management and Use of International Tools
in DevelopingCountries: A Critical Understanding
10.25 am 10.50 am Rajasri Muhopadhyay (Fellow, Asiatic Society of Bengal)
Community Consciousness and the Interpretation of Heritage:
Local Gaze at the Khiching Museum, Orissa, India
10.50 am 11.00 am Coffee Break
11.00 am 11.20 am Dr .C. C. Mullick: Banaras Hindu University
Cultural Heritage & Museum Management in Northern Indian
Contexts
11.20 11.45 Sudarshan Seneviratne (Sri Lanka)
The ideology of representation of heritage sites in a multicultural
society
11.45 am 12.05 am Sukra Sagar Shrestha (Chief Archaeologist, Department of
Archaeology, Nepal)
Issues of Conservation and Heritage in the Kingdom of Nepal
12.05 am 12.30 Ibrahim Shah (University of Peshawar)
A short survey of Hindu temples in Peshawar, Pakistan

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ARCHAEOLOGY OF WATER
(Moser Seminar Room)
Convenor: Prof. Marco Madella: (Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, Instituci
Mil i Fontanals, Spanish Council for Scientific Research)

9:30 am12:30 pm
9:30 9:50 Dr. Heather M.-L. Miller (Toronto)
Water Management and Land Ownership in Indus Floodplain
Agricultural Systems
10.00 10.20 Prof. Marco Madella (Instituci Mil i Fontanals)
Climate, Water and Culture: A Perspective from the Greater Indus
Valley during the Harappan Tradition
10.30 10.50 Dr. Julia Shaw (Oxford)
Early historic landscapes in central India: recent archaeological
investigations in districts Raisen and Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh, 20035
11.00 11.10 Coffee Break
11.10 11.30 John M Fritz (Pennsylvania)
The Bridge at Vitthalapuram
11.40 12.00 Dr. Vinod Singh
Alwar Fort : Technology involved in the building of Pre-Modern
Waterworks
12.10 12.30 Dr. Shahnaj Husne Jahan (Asiatic Society of Bangladesh)
Maritime Shipbuilding Industry in Early Historic Bengal

12.30pm 2.00pm General Lunch Break

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2pm 5pm Afternoon Sessions

ARTS OF THE MUGHAL PERIOD PANEL

(BP Lecture Theatre)
Convenor: Dr. Jennifer Howes (The British Library, London)

2.00pm 5.00pm
2.05pm 2.20pm Dr Joachim Bautze (Wako University)
The view of Delhi painted in 1842 for Maharao Ram Singh of Kota
and the view of Agra, done in 1866 for Maharao Shatru Sal II of
Kota
2.25pm 2.40pm Barbara Brend
Salim or Jahangir Enthroned
2.45pm 3.00pm Dr. Sheila Canby (British Museum, London)
The Jade Terrapin in the British Museum: Context and Meaning
3.05pm 3.20pm U. Franke-Vogt (DAI-Eurasienb-Abteilung), K. Bartl, and Th.
Urban
Bagh-e Babur: A Mughal Garden in Kabul and its Change through
Time
3.25pm 3.40pm Prof. Ebba Koch (Institute of Art History, University of
Vienna)
The Madrasa of Ghazi al-Din Khan at Delhi
3.45pm 4.00pm Rosie Llewellyn-Jones
Collecting and Patronage in 18th and early 19th Century Awadh
4.05pm 4.20pm Danish Moin (Indian Institute of Research in Numismatic
Studies)
Decorative Art on Mughal Coins vis--vis Sultanate Coins
4.25pm 4.40pm Malini Roy (PhD candidate, SOAS, London)
18th Century Miniature painting from the collections of Antoine
Polier and Jean-Baptiste Gentil
4.45pm 5.00pm Friederike Weis (Freie Universitt Berlin)
Christian Iconography Disguised: Images of Nativity and
Motherhood in Merat al-Qods and Akbarname Manuscripts of
1595-1605

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ISSUES IN INDIAN OCEAN COMMERCE AND THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF

WESTERN INDIA PANEL
(Sackler Seminar Room)
Convenors: Roberta Tomber (Visiting Fellow, Dept. of Conservation, Documentation and
Science, The British Museum); Shinu Abraham (Dept. of Anthropology, St Lawrence
University, Canton, New York); and Lucy Blue (Dept. of Archaeology, University of
Southampton)

2.00pm 5.00pm
Chair: Roberta Tomber
2.00pm 2.05pm Roberta Tomber (Visiting Fellow, Dept. of Conservation,
Documentation and Science, The British Museum)
Introduction
2.05pm 2.25pm Dr. Lucy Blue (Dept. of Archaeology, University of
Southampton)
Boats, routes and sailing conditions between western India and the
West
2.25pm 2.40pm Sunil Gupta (Allahabad Museum)
Kamrej and Elephanta in the shifting patterns of Indian Ocean
trade (1st 7th century AD)
2.40pm 3.05pm Rukshana Nanji & Vishwas D. Gogte, Deccan College
Research Institute
A search for the Early Historic ports on the west coast of India
3.05pm 3.25pm Coffee Break
3.25pm 3.45pm Pia Brancaccio, Department of Art History, Drexel University,
Philadelphia
Molding the west: terracottas, molds and the transmission of
models through Indian Ocean trade
3.45pm 4.15pm V.Selvakumar, Centre for Heritage Studies, Hill Palace,
Tripunithura; Shajan, K.P., M.G. University, Kottayam;
P.K Gopi, Registrar, Centre for Heritage Studies, Hill
Palace, Tripunithura; Roberta Tomber, Department of
Conservation, Documentation and Science, The British
Museum
Archaeological investigations at the Early Historic urban
settlement of Pattanam, Malabar Coast, India: New evidence for
the location of ancient Muziris
4.15pm 4.35pm Shinu Abraham (St Lawrence University, Canton, New York)
From Periyar to Palghat: Integrating overseas trade with local
communities in late Iron Age/Early Historic central Kerala
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4.35pm 4.55pm Roberta Tomber (Visiting Fellow, Dept. of Conservation,

Documentation and Science, The British Museum)
Beyond western India: the evidence from imported finds ()
4.55pm 5.00pm Closing remarks

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ARCHAEOLOGY OF SRI LANKA

Convenor: Dr. Osmund Bopearachchi

2.00 5.00
2.05 2.25 Dr. Reinhold Walburg (Deutsche Bundesbank-Geldmuseum)
The Laksmi Plaques of Ancient Ceylon: a Final Attempt to Convince
Monetarists of their Non-Monetary Function
2.25 2.50 Dr. Osmund Bopearachchi: CNRS, Paris & Senarath Disanayaka,
former Director-General of Archaeology, Sri Lanka
Sculptures of Amaravati style from Tissamaharama:an appraisal of early
Buddhist sculptures from Sri Lanka
2.50 3.20 Dr Benille Priyanka (UCLA)
Sigiriya Paintings Reconsidered: Evidence for Parallel Motifs from
Contemporary Asia
3.20 3.40 Anura Manatunga
Polonnaruva City Plan: Was Half of it Submerged?

3.40 3.55 Coffee Break

3.55 4.15 Dr Gill Juleff (University of Exeter)
Direct smelting to high-grade steel: the technological achievements of Sri
Lanka and evidence for wider Asian interaction
4.15 4.45 Dr Raj Somadeva (Postgraduate Institute of Archaeology, Colombo)
Urban Origins in Southern Sri Lanka: A Settlement Survey of the Lower
Kirindi Oya Basin in the Southern Province.

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