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Anuradhapura: Volume III: The Hinterland

Robin Coningham and Prishanta Gunawardhana 2013 © BAR Publishing
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The third volume of the Anuradhapura series documents the results of six years of settlement survey, excavation and geoarchaeology in the hinterland of the Citadel. Mapping the response of rural communities to the growth of Anuradhapura as Sri Lankan capital and Indian Ocean pilgrimage centre, this interdisciplinary study presents the establishment and consolidation of settlement within the island's Dry Zone and the associated investment in hydraulic infrastructure from the first millennium BC onwards. It also traces the division of hinterland settlement into either Buddhist monastery or agricultural village with an absence of towns as well as the hinterland's subsequent collapse in the eleventh Century AD. Conforming to a model of Tropical Forest 'Low Density Urbanism', this volume presents the most detailed archaeology study of the dynamic and contested nature of a South Asia urban hinterland. (See also BAR S1508 and BAR S824) With contributions from (in alphabetical order) Gamini Adikari, Paul Adderley, Ian Bailiff, Cathy Batt, C. I. Burbidge, A. J. Cresswell, Christopher Davis, Randolph Donahue, Krista Gilliland, Jennifer Jones, Mangala Katugampola, Krishnan Krishnan, Mark Manuel, Gerry McDonnell, Harendralal Namalgamuwa, Umanga Roshani Rammungoda, David Sanderson, Armin Schmidt, Jayampath Senanayake, Ian Simpson, Ben Stern, Keir Strickland and Ruth Young
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  • BAR pre-2020
  • BAR International Series pre-2020
ISBN(s)
  • 9781407311890 (paperback)
  • 9781407341606 (ebook)
BAR Number
  • S2568
Subject
  • Excavation / Fieldwork / Survey
  • Multiperiod
  • Central and South Asia
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  • Front Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • List of Colour Plates
  • List of Tables
  • List of Figures
  • CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
  • CHAPTER 2: HISTORY OF RESEARCH
  • CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY
  • CHAPTER 4: PHASING THE HINTERLAND
  • CHAPTER 5: SURVEY DATA
  • CHAPTER 6: NON-INTRUSIVE SURFACE SURVEY: GEOPHYSICS AND AUGERING
  • CHAPTER 7: EXCAVATION
  • CHAPTER 8: ENVIRONMENT AND WATER MANAGEMENT
  • CHAPTER 9: GLAZED AND UNGLAZED CERAMICS
  • CHAPTER 10: TERRACOTTA OBJECTS
  • CHAPTER 11: CONSTRUCTION AND BUILDING MATERIALS, STONE, GLASS, METAL, ARCHAEOZOOLOGICAL, ARCHAEOBOTANICAL AND PLASTIC OBJECTS
  • CHAPTER 12: EPIGRAPHY IN THE ANURADHAPURA HINTERLAND
  • CHAPTER 13: DISCUSSION
  • CHAPTER 14: CONCLUSION
  • REFERENCES
  • Appendix A
  • Appendix B
  • Appendix C
  • Appendix D
  • Index
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