This monograph ‘A Catalogue of Prehistoric Tools’ is a unique presentation of a rare and important collection donated by Late Dr. A.P. Khatri to the Indraprastha Museum of Art and Acchaeology, New Delhi. The entire collection comprises of thousands of prehistoric tools from different parts of the world including rich river (Narmada, Godavari etc.) valley collection from India.
A selection of the representative types has been made from most of the sites distributed in four continents of the world namely, Europe, Africa, Asia and America. These tools are included in the catalogue and elaborately described with good line drawings. In some cases notes are also given to place the collection in their proper context. Appendices with relevant information and maps are to highlights the text. Colour photographs of all these tools are illustrated in the plates at the end.
An introduction ‘A Brief Survey of World Prehistory’ has been provided as background study. The catalogue will enormously benefit the scholars, researchers and students of Prehistoric Archaeology.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR D. K. Bhattacharya
Dr. Bhattacharya, a veteran teacher in the Department of anthropology, University of Delhi, has spent several years in various Laboratories, Museums and Universities in Europe to compile a voluminous reference book on Palaeolithic Europe, which has been published in early 1977 from Holland. He has also taken keen interest in trying to undo the unpopularity of Indian prehistory in the west. He feels the main malady for this neglect is our total disregard of standard methods of research and reporting. In order to help this he has worked on a book of Palaeolithic typology. Which is shortly going to be published. He has studied by now tens of thousands of tools from classic sites in Europe and India and is totally utilizing this hard earned knowledge in trying to improve the teaching of Pre-historic Archaeology in India. His other publications are: 1) Introduction to Prehistoric Archaeology, 1977; 2) Palaeolithic Europe, 1977.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sudipa Saha
Ms. Sudipa Saha (b. 1981) is a young promising scholar in the field of Anthropology and Archaeology. She had obtained her Masters Degree (2004) from the University of Calcutta in Anthropology; Post Graduate Diploma in Archaeology (2006) from Deccan College, Pune as well aas from the Institute of Archaeology (2009), Archaeological Survey of India, New Delhi. Ms. Saha served the Indian Archaeological Society, New Delhi as a Research Associate engaged in documenting the antiquities especially the Prehistoric collection of the Indraprastha Museum of Art and Archaeology which resulted into the present catalogue of Prehistoric tools. She was also associated with editing ‘Puratattva’ the annual journal of the Society as also contributing ‘Book Review’ in it. Ms. Saha had participated as an Indian delegate in the 19th Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association Congress held at Hanoi, Vietnam in 2009. She is presently working in Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts (IGNCA), New Delhi as a Jr. Research Fellow in Life Style Studies.
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