Asia: South Asia (Other Keyword)

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Beyond Hearth and Pots: Understanding Food Processing and Pottery Functions in the Harappan Culture (2025)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Ahana Ghosh.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The presentation will elucidate the kind of product(s) processed inside the potteries and their potential cultural uses within select Harappan habitational sites from Western and North-Western India. The pottery samples were sourced from the habitational sites of Dholavira, Shikarpur, Bagasra, Karanpura, and Ropar. One of the notable findings of this...


Introducing a Standardized and Adaptable Method for Rock Art Recording (2025)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Laurianne Bruneau.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The authors advocate for the adoption of a standardized method for rock art recording since it is a reproducible archaeological record. As in any other field, standardization strengthens the reliability of data, facilitates comparative studies and enhances collaboration. The method relies primarily on a multiscale approach to rock art (country, region,...


South Indian Landscape Trajectories: Recent Fieldwork at Brahmagiri (2025)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Feng.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The site of Brahmagiri in central Karnataka is significant in the history of South Indian archaeology as the type site for South Indian chronologies and ceramic sequences. First excavated by the Mysore State Archaeological Department between 1929 and 1941 and the Archaeological Survey of India under Mortimer Wheeler in 1947, more recent re-analyses...