Browsing Institute's contributions by Subject "MARINE ARCHAEOLOGY"
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A medieval port at Ghogha in the Gulf of Khambhat, west coast of India
(Swati Publications, 2015)The Gulf of Khambhat has been a focal area for the human settlements since the Harappan and it is also famous for the highest tidal range in India. The author of the Periplus of the Erythrenean Sea vividly described the ... -
A traditional boats and navigational history of Odisha, East coast of India
(Indian Society for Prehistoric and Quaternary Studies, 2015)It is Believed that around 60,000 yrs. ago when the sea level was lower people employed floats or rafts for water crossing. Over the centuries, different types of traditional boats were constructed and used for maritime ... -
An overview of maritime archaeological studies in India
(Kaveri Book Service; Ansari Road, New Delhi; India, 2015) -
An overview of shipwreck explorations in Indian waters
(Prestige Books, 2015)The archaeology of ships, called nautical archaeology (from the ancient Greek word for ship ‘naus’), also reveals design and construction details of various types of watercraft, including merchant vessels, warships and ... -
Ancient technology of jetties and anchorage system along the Saurastra coast, India
(Primus Books, 2016)This chapter tries to bring out the ancient technologies opted for the anchorages on jetties and ports of Saurastra, Gujrat -
Applications of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System (GIS) in Archaeology
(Agam Kala Prakashan. New Delhi, 2015)The advancement of remote sensing technology and the analysing capability of Geographical Information System (GIS) can very well be used in the science of Archaeology. Though these subjects look apart, they can be studied ... -
Climate Induced Vegetational Evolution: Palynological and Thecamoebian Study from Coastal Archaeological Sites, Saurashtra
(Agam Kala Prakashan, New Delhi, 2015)Coastal archaeological sites serve as potential archive of past climate-culture and vegetation relationship responding to relative sea level changes. Most of the Harappan dwellers along the coastal region largely depended ... -
Early Historic Shipwreck Archaeology of the Indian Subcontinent Region
(Agam Kala Prakashan, New Delhi, 2015)Shipwreck archaeology in South Asian region is rather recent when one compares with the rest of the world and shipwrecks of the Bronze Age are unknown so far. There is also limited information on the shipwrecks of the early ... -
Indo-Arab trading posts along the Saurashtra coast, Gujarat India (Study based on underwater archaeological explorations)
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Investigations at Antroli: A late Harappan site and maritime archaeological exploration on the coast of Navibandar, Saurashtra, Gujarat
(Indian Society for Prehistoric and Quaternary Studies, 2012)In an effort to thoroughly document archaeological sites along the Saurashtra Coast (before they vanish due to rapid developmental activities), a protohistoric site located at Antroli near Madhopur was chosen to assess the ... -
Khalkattapatna port: The lost archaeological heritage of Odisha, east coast of India
(Current Science Association, 2015)The history of Odisha, lying on the east coast of India, is well documented from the Stone Age onwards. The evidences suggest that the ports of Odisha had contacts with the Arabs, Mediterranean countries and South Asia, ... -
Marine Archaeological Explorations at Kulasekharapattinarn and Manapad Region, Tamil Nadu
(Agam Kala Prakashan, New Delhi, 2015)Maritime activities along the Tamil Nadu date back to the second half of the 1st millennia BC and a large number of port towns developed all along the Tamil Nadu coast. The coastal and offshore explorations have yielded a ... -
Marine Robots : Applications in Marine Archaeology
(Agam Kala Prakashan, New Delhi, 2015)This article explains how underwater robots have the potential to become companions (buddies) to divers, effectively assisting them by carrying tools and instrumentation and taking high resolution images under the commands ... -
Maritime trade contacts of Odisha, east coast of India with the Roman world: An appraisal
(Manohar publishers, New Delhi; India, 2015)The present state of Odisha (previously known as Kalinga, Utkal,Odra and Orissa) lies on the east coast of India, and is known forits maritime contacts with the Roman world since the early histori-cal period, if not earlier. ... -
Possible Location of Gaspar Dias Fort in Relation to the Present River Bank
(Agam Kala Prakashan, New Delhi, 2015)Historical records reveal the existence of a military fort within the Mandovi estuary. The structure was built in 1598 opposite the Reis Magos fort, extended in the adjoining area of the present traffic circle of Miramar, ... -
Stone anchors from Mombasa, Kenya: Evidence of maritime contacts with Indian Ocean countries
(Australasian Institute for Maritime Archaeology, 2015)For 2000 years or more, the East African Coast has had contacts with other parts of the world and that was possible because an understanding of the monsoon winds and current patterns of the region encouraged the interchange ... -
Teak (Tectona grandis L.f.): A preferred timber for shipbuilding in India as evidenced from shipwrecks
(Current Science Association, 2016)One of the greatest achievements of man is the design and development of a variety of watercraft suitable for marine and riverine purposes and safer for the environment. From ancient times, timber was the main component ... -
क्या सिन्धु सभ्यता के समय में कच्छ के रण मे नौवहन होता था? पुरातात्विक साक्ष्यों पर आधारित एक अध्ययन.
(CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, 2012)