02375nam a22002537a 4500 20231130121043.0 231130b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781032656625 : International Book Distributors : Flat No. 17, Prakash Apartment, Building No.-4405/2. : 119858 : 16/11/2023 934 SEN Sen, Swadhin. ;Varma, Supriya. The archaeology of early medieval and medieval South Asia : contesting narratives from the Eastern Ganga-Brahmaputra Basin. / Swadhin Sen. , Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group , 2023. xxxi, 373 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. 9223 "This book looks at the ways in which archaeological methods have been used in debates concerning the early medieval and medieval periods in South Asia. Despite the incorporation and use of archaeological data to corroborate historical narratives, the theories and methods of archaeology are largely ignored in and excluded from the dominating, institutionalized and hegemonic disciplinary discourses. The volume offers contesting insights, polemical narratives, and new data from archaeological contexts to initiate a debate on many foundational premises of archaeological and historical narratives. It focuses on the much-neglected region of the Eastern Ganga-Brahmaputra Basin as a spatial frame to do this, and studies themes such as spatial and temporal scales of concepts and methods, multi-scaler factors and processes of continuity and changes, the settlement archaeology on alluvial landscape, changing patterns of agrarian transformation, and material cultures, including coins, inscriptions, pottery, sculptures, in their contexts in sub-regional, regional and supra-regional intersections. As a crucial and unprecedented intervention in the study of the early medieval and the medieval periods, this volume will be useful for scholars and researchers of archaeology, ancient history, medieval history, water history, earth sciences, palaeoecology, historical ecology, epigraphy, art history, material culture studies, Indian history, and South Asian Studies in general" Archaeology Bangladesh Antiquities South Asia History Swadhin Sen BOOK 61257 61257 0 0 ddc 0 1 SNUL SNUL 2023-11-30 International Book Distributors 9223.00 0 934 SEN 29851 2023-11-30 00:00:00 2023-11-30 BOOK