Status of Prehistoric Studies in the Twenty First Century in India / Aetat De L'art D'etudes Rehistoriques Au XXIe Siecle En Inde: Proceedings of the . Archaeological Reports International Series, 1924)

Papers from the session entitled Status of Prehistoric Studies in the Twenty First Century in India presented at the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006). Contents: 1) Prehistoric India: Assessment & Prospects in the 21st Century (Vidula Jayaswal); 2) On the status of Indian Hominoid and Hominid Fossils (A. R. Sankhyan); 3) Understanding Acheulian Culture in the Gandheswari River Valley; Bankura; West-Bengal, India (Asok Datta); 4) Prehistoric Research in Bengal - On the threshold (Bishnupriya Basak); 5) The Neolithic Culture in the Northern Vindhyas and the Middle Gangetic Plain (Jagannath Pal); 6) Experimental Study on the Manufacturing process of the Lower Palaelithic implements from Quartz nodules (Krishnendu Polley, Ranjana Ray); 7) Dohkra Craft of West Bengali: A legacy of Indian Archaeometallurgy (Falguni Chakrabarty); 8) Studies on a human skull fossil entombed within the ferricrete (P.Rajendran); 9) Human Bio-Cultural Diversity in Prehistoric-to-Protohistoric India (A. R. Sankhyan); 10) Is Study of Stone Age Cultures Dead in India? (Manoj Kumar Singh).

Ranjana Ray and Vidula Jayaswal