The Prehistory of Sri Lanka: An Ecological Perspective, Volume 1; Volume 8, Part 1Department of Archaeological Survey, Government of Sri Lanka, 1992 - Excavations (Archaeology) |
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Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
CHRONOLOGY | 44 |
QUATERNARY ENVIRONMENT | 120 |
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Acheulean Aggradation Allchin Anuradhapura appears artefacts assemblages associated Balangoda basal gravels Batadomba-lena Beli-lena Kitulgala Bellan-bandi Palassa bifaces blade bladelets bone Butzer cave chert chopper chronological climatic coastal comprises Cooray correlation cultural deposits Deraniyagala discoidal nucleus Dry Zone dunes ecozone Elephas evidence excavated Fauna flake form-trimmed Gedige gem gravel geometric microliths glacial hammer-stones Hence Hexaprotodon Holocene horizon hypothesis ibid indicate industry interglacial Iranamadu Kitulgala l4C BP Lanka laterite Latosols lithic Lower Palaeolithic medium-sized Mesolithic microlithic Middle Palaeolithic Monsoon Mousterian Mousterioid namadicus nuclei occur peninsular India phase pitted Pleistocene pluvial Potwar prehistoric quartz Quaternary radiocarbon dates rainfall Rajasthan Ratnapura Ratnapura Beds RBE Fm region represent S.W. Monsoon sample sands Sankalia Sarasin scraper sea level sediments shells small artefacts Spate and Learmonth specimens Stone Age stone artefacts stratigraphic Stratum Sub-Type suggest technological tectonically terrace trimming Type Upper Palaeolithic Vaddas vembu Wet Zone Wiirm
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| Title | The Prehistory of Sri Lanka: An Ecological Perspective, Volume 1; Volume 8, Part 1 Volume 8 of Memoir, Government of Sri Lanka Department of Archaeological Survey Memoirs of the Archaeological Survey of Ceylon, Sri Lanka. Purāvidyā Depārtamēntuva The Prehistory of Sri Lanka: An Ecological Perspective, Sri Lanka. Purāvidyā Depārtamēntuva |
| Author | S. U. Deraniyagala |
| Contributor | Sri Lanka. Purāvidyā Depārtamēntuva |
| Publisher | Department of Archaeological Survey, Government of Sri Lanka, 1992 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | Jan 14, 2010 |
| ISBN | 9559159003, 9789559159001 |
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