Status of Prehistoric Studies in the Twenty First Century in India/Etat de lart detudes rehistoriques au XXIe siecle en Inde Bar S1924

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