A Comprehensive History of Sri Lanka from Prehistory to Tsunami
Author : Nath Yogasundram
Publisher :
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 39,74 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Sri Lanka
ISBN : 9789556650020
Author : Nath Yogasundram
Publisher :
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 39,74 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Sri Lanka
ISBN : 9789556650020
Author : Halawathage Nimal Perera
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Limited
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 22,3 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781407306834
Sri Lanka is a tropical island that lies approximately halfway between Africa and Australia along the northern rim of the Indian Ocean, and has one of the best recorded prehistoric sequences in South Asia. A review of its prehistory is a vast subject. The present study investigates the island's hunter-gatherer archaeology between the Late Pleistocene and the middle Holocene, with lowland Wet Zone rockshelters as the principle topic of study. This work synthesises past and current archaeological research in the island as well as presenting new findings from excavations in the Batadomba-lena rockshelter and the open-air site of Bellan-bandi Palassa. The excavation of Batadomba-lena has provided fresh data for understanding human adaptations to the changing environment between approximately 36,000 and 12,000 years ago. A rainforest environment evidently persisted throughout this period in the environs of the site, but the climate was cooler at around the Last Glacial Maximum. Intensive occupation, succeeded by increased attention to the management of plant resources, followed the Last Glacial Maximum. Microliths, small tools defined by the presence of blunting retouch, as well as the bifacially trimmed Balangoda Point and polished bone points, were evident from the earliest occupation. The symbolic capacities of the inhabitants were also revealed through the recovery of ornaments and ochre fragments throughout the sequence. The Batadomba-lena sequence has important implications for the Out-of-Africa theory on modern human origins, as well as Sri Lanka's recognition of its cultural heritage.
Author : Gwen Robbins Schug
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 47,41 MB
Release : 2016-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1119055482
A Companion to South Asia in the Past provides the definitive overview of research and knowledge about South Asia’s past, from the Pleistocene to the historic era in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal, provided by a truly global team of experts. The most comprehensive and detailed scholarly treatment of South Asian archaeology and biological anthropology, providing ground-breaking new ideas and future challenges Provides an in-depth and broad view of the current state of knowledge about South Asia’s past, from the Pleistocene to the historic era in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal A comprehensive treatment of research in a crucial region for human evolution and biocultural adaptation A global team of scholars together present a varied set of perspectives on South Asian pre- and proto-history
Author : Nira Wickramasinghe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 42,86 MB
Release : 2015-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0190225793
On the ethnic relations and politics in post 1978 Sri Lanka.
Author : Anton Sebastian
Publisher :
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 17,99 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Sri Lanka
ISBN : 9789556651492
Author : S. U. Deraniyagala
Publisher :
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 46,31 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN :
Author : Paulus Edward Pieris Deraniyagala
Publisher :
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 21,73 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Geology
ISBN :
Author : Charles Gabriel Seligman
Publisher :
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 34,21 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Vedda (Sri Lankan people)
ISBN :
Author : Kenneth A. R. Kennedy
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 29,37 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780472110131
Provides the first comprehensive study of the ancient peoples of south Asia
Author : Zoltán Biedermann
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 20,39 MB
Release : 2017-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1911307843
The peoples of Sri Lanka have participated in far-flung trading networks, religious formations, and Asian and European empires for millennia. This interdisciplinary volume sets out to draw Sri Lanka into the field of Asian and Global History by showing how the latest wave of scholarship has explored the island as a ‘crossroads’, a place defined by its openness to movement across the Indian Ocean.Experts in the history, archaeology, literature and art of the island from c.500 BCE to c.1850 CE use Lankan material to explore a number of pressing scholarly debates. They address these matters from their varied disciplinary perspectives and diverse array of sources, critically assessing concepts such as ethnicity, cosmopolitanism and localisation, and elucidating the subtle ways in which the foreign may be resisted and embraced at the same time. The individual chapters, and the volume as a whole, are a welcome addition to the history and historiography of Sri Lanka, as well as studies of the Indian Ocean region, kingship, colonialism, imperialism, and early modernity.