Debarati Mitra RAWAT Archaeological Survey of India Piram Island – A Case Study Gujarat by virtue of its unique geographical position and a coastline of 1600 km was one of the principle maritime regions of India since ancient times. It was the height of international trade and had many prominent ports. The Gulf of...
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Résumés Kolkata 2011
Kolkata 2011 – Abstract M. Nambirajan
M. NAMBIRAJAN Archaeological Survey of India Thrissur, Kerala Pattanam (Muziris?) Excavations – A Port Town on the Malabar Coast: a few observations The Pattanam excavations 2007, ’08, ‘09 & ‘10 undertaken by KCHR in collaboration with the Archaeological Survey of India are important in the early history of South India and the East –West...
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Kolkata 2011 – Abstract I. Strauch
Ingo STRAUCH Institut für Kulturwissenschaften Ost- und Südasiens, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg The Indian inscriptions from the cave Hoq on Socotra – new evidence for Indian intercontinental trade contacts in the first centuries A.D. In the year 2000 a group of Belgian speleologists discovered in one of the huge underground caves on the island Socotra hundreds...
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Kolkata 2011 – Abstract Ch. Zazzaro, J. P. Cooper
Chiara ZAZZARO, John P. COOPER University of Exeter Recent archaeological investigations on Greater Farasan and in the southern Red Sea In May 2010 a team of ethnographers and maritime archaeologists comprising Prof. Dionsius Agius, Dr. John Cooper, Dr. Chiara Zazzaro and Lucy Semaan of the MARES Project, University of Exeter, conducted a three-week preliminary...
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Kolkata 2011 – Abstract H. J. Weisshaar, H. Schenk
Hans Joachim WEISSHAAR, Heidrun SCHENK DAI, Berlin The Citadel of Tissamaharama (Sri Lanka): the development of a city and the Indian Ocean trade. The excavation at the Citadel of Tissamaharama is a joint project of the Archaeological Department of Sri Lanka and the German Archaeological Institute. During the „second urbanization“ in South Asia new...
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Kolkata 2011 – Abstract Ch. Ward, Ch. Zazzaro
Cheryl WARD, Chiara ZAZZARO Coastal Carolina University – University of Exeter Boat related activities at the pharaonic harbour of Mersa Gawasis The Boston University and the University of Napoli “L’Orientale” have been conducting archaeological investigations since 2001 at the pharaonic harbour of Mersa Gawasis, under the direction of Kathryn Bard and Rodolfo Fattovich. Excavations...
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Kolkata 2011 – Abstract E. Vagnon
Emmanuelle VAGNON MeDIan Program, BNF, Paris The Ports of Western India in the Latin Maps, 13th–15th cent.: Toponymy, Location and Evolution Les ports de l’Inde occidentale dans les sources cartographiques latines des XIIIe-XVIe s. Toponymie, localisations et évolutions Les recherches documentaires menées au Département des Cartes et Plans dans le cadre du projet MeDian...
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Kolkata 2011 – Abstract A. Sundaresh, A. S. Gaur (2)
A. SUNDARESH, A. S. GAUR National Institute of Oceanography, Goa Ancient port of Kaveripattinam: its existence and decline Kaveripattinam, a flourishing port in the beginning of the Christian era played a major role in maritime activities and cultural expansion in the history of India. Texts of Sangam literature vividly describe about its location, habitation,...
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Kolkata 2011 – Abstract V. Selvakumar
V. SELVAKUMAR Tamil University, Thanjavur Internal Trade and Exchange Network and the Ports of Ancient Tamizhakam The southern part of the peninsular India, otherwise known as Ancient Tamizhakam in the Early Historic period (ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE), comprised the modern states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala. This region witnessed brisk cultural and...
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Kolkata 2011 – Abstract K. P. Rajan
K. Paul RAJAN Pondicherry University Port cities and hinterland trade in Early Historic Tamil Nadu The paper attempts to highlight the central research question concerns the mutually constituted socio-economic relationships between port sites and their hinterlands. The bulk of analysis will concern the organization and characterization of archaeological findings from the port sites and...
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