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Exploring archaeology, community engagement and cultural heritage
protection in South Asia, this book considers heritage management
strategies through community engagement, bringing together the
results of research undertaken by archaeologists, heritage
practitioners and policy makers working towards the preservation
and conservation of both cultural and natural heritage. The book
highlights the challenges faced by communities, archaeologists and
heritage managers in post-conflict and post-disaster contexts in
their efforts to protect, preserve and present cultural heritage,
including issues of sustainability, linkages with existing
community programmes and institutions, and building administrative
and social networks. The case-studies illustrate larger-scale
projects to small micro-level engagement, across a range of
geographical, political, social and economic contexts, providing a
framework that links and synchronises programmes of archaeological
activities alongside active community engagement. The chapters
'Introduction', 'Community Engagement in the Greater Lumbini Area
of Nepal: the Micro-Heritage Case-Study of Dohani' and 'Conclusion'
of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at
link.springer.com.
The third volume of the Anuradhapura series documents the results
of six years of settlement survey, excavation and geoarchaeology in
the hinterland of the Citadel. Mapping the response of rural
communities to the growth of Anuradhapura as Sri Lankan capital and
Indian Ocean pilgrimage centre, this interdisciplinary study
presents the establishment and consolidation of settlement within
the island's Dry Zone and the associated investment in hydraulic
infrastructure from the first millennium BC onwards. It also traces
the division of hinterland settlement into either Buddhist
monastery or agricultural village with an absence of towns as well
as the hinterland's subsequent collapse in the eleventh Century AD.
Conforming to a model of Tropical Forest 'Low Density Urbanism',
this volume presents the most detailed archaeology study of the
dynamic and contested nature of a South Asia urban hinterland. (See
also BAR S1508 and BAR S824)
The Bala Hisar of Charsadda is a 23m high mound covering an area of
some 25 hectares close to the confluence of the Swat and Kabul
rivers in North West Frontier Province's Vale of Peshawa.Although
not as formally investigated as Taxila to its south-east, it has
been subject to antiquarian and archaeological interest for over
100 years on account of its historical links with the Achaemenid
Empire and Alexander the Great. The focus of this research may have
changed significantly over time, mirroring broader methodological
and theoretical changes, but all researchers have attempted to
identify when this great tell site was founded and occupied, and
whether there is evidence of Alexander's siege of the site. These
issues are not merely of interest to ancient historians but are of
great interest to archaeologists of both southern and western Asia
as the origins of South Asia second urbanisation are also under
scrutiny.
The site of Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka, is important, from two
principal points of view. In the first place it has played a
significant role in the history and cultural traditions of Sri
Lanka as a whole. Secondly, Anuradhapura has a more immediate,
specific importance from an archaeological point of view on account
of the extent, depth and richness of the occupation deposits. This
has been demonstrated by the research done there by archaeologists
during the last century. This work has opened the way to achieving
a better understanding of Early Historic Sri Lanka than was
hitherto possible and provided an excellent basis for further
investigation. The investigations described here had the advantage
of a number of modern techniques, including geophysical methods of
surface survey, three-dimensional recording of levels and finds in
excavation, and ample radiocarbon measurements. The present, second
volume, The Artefacts, describes the artefacts and other finds and
relates them to the dated sequence of archaeologically identified
layers, thus clothing the dated structural framework with cultural
material.
The excavation project undertaken at Anuradhapura responded to the
general lack of research on early historic cities in India. This
first volume details the environmental and geographical background
of Anuradhapura, the history of the city from the small circular
houses of the Iron Age through to the stone built architectural
structures of the 13th century AD as the city developed into a
thriving fortified metropolis. A large part of the volume is taken
up by the results of the excavations carried out between 1989 and
1994 providing a better understanding of the development of
urbanism on Sri Lanka. The second volume will include the artefacts
and materials discovered during the excavations.
This book offers a critical synthesis of the archaeology of South
Asia from the Neolithic period (c.6500 BCE), when domestication
began, to the spread of Buddhism accompanying the Mauryan Emperor
Asoka's reign (third century BCE). The authors examine the growth
and character of the Indus civilisation, with its town planning,
sophisticated drainage systems, vast cities and international
trade. They also consider the strong cultural links between the
Indus civilisation and the second, later period of South Asian
urbanism which began in the first millennium BCE and developed
through the early first millennium CE. In addition to examining the
evidence for emerging urban complexity, this book gives equal
weight to interactions between rural and urban communities across
South Asia and considers the critical roles played by rural areas
in social and economic development. The authors explore how
narratives of continuity and transformation have been formulated in
analyses of South Asia's Prehistoric and Early Historic
archaeological record.
In this book an international team of archaeologists, philosophers,
lawyers and heritage professionals addresses significant ethical
questions about the rights to access, manage and interpret the
material remains of the past. The chapters explore competing claims
to interpret and appropriate the past and the major ethical issues
associated with them, including handling the sacred; contested
rights over sites, antiquities and artifacts; the involvement of
local communities in archaeological research; and the legal status
of heritage sites. The book covers a range of hotly debated topics
in contemporary archaeological practice, focusing particularly on
the relationship between academic archaeologists and indigenous
communities for whom the material remnants of the past that form
the archaeological record may be part of a living tradition and
anchors of social identity.
In this book an international team of archaeologists, philosophers,
lawyers and heritage professionals addresses significant ethical
questions about the rights to access, manage and interpret the
material remains of the past. The chapters explore competing claims
to interpret and appropriate the past and the major ethical issues
associated with them, including handling the sacred; contested
rights over sites, antiquities and artifacts; the involvement of
local communities in archaeological research; and the legal status
of heritage sites. The book covers a range of hotly debated topics
in contemporary archaeological practice, focusing particularly on
the relationship between academic archaeologists and indigenous
communities for whom the material remnants of the past that form
the archaeological record may be part of a living tradition and
anchors of social identity.
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