Archaeology of North-East India : (A Study on Mizoram) /

Archaeology of North-East India : (A Study on Mizoram) / Sujeet Nayan, - New Delhi : Aayu Publication, 2022. - xxxiii, 430 p. : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour) ; 29 cm.

The book ‘Archaeology of Northeastern India’ is a prolific endeavor to envisage and illuminate the composite cultural history of this region based on recent archaeological excavations and scientific study of available data. It is a comprehensive work that presents vivid facts of the culture of northeastern India with its historical perspective and prospect for wide range of archaeological exploration in future. The objective of this work is scientific reconstruction of the past based on comparative and critical study of the heritages of the seven northeastern states of India with focus on recent discoveries made in Mizoram. In fact, it is an ethno-archaeological study on cultural diversity of northeastern states of India that brings to fore latest report on DNA/genetic study that exposes the colonial conspiracy of narrativising the false notion of the foreign origin of northeastern Indian states. Especially the archaeological explorations in and around Champhai and excavations of Vangchhia has been comprehensively elucidated in this book with archaeological paradigms; its established scientific carbon dating and above all mitochondrial DNA analysis. In fact, this book establishes the fact that there is underlying cultural, historic and most significantly genetic unity of the northeastern states with rest of India since time memorial.

CONTENTS FOREWORD PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ILLUSTRATIONS OF PLATES ILLUSTRATIONS OF FIGURES ABBREVIATIONS 1. Introduction 2. Previous Archaeological works in North -East India 3. Extensive Survey Explorations in Mizoram and Trpura 4. Recent findings of Post-Burial Sites 5. Archaeological Endeavours of Mizoram 6. Megaliths in North-East 7. State Protected Monuments under State Government Conclusion

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Antiquities Excavations (Archaeology) Excavations (Archaeology) India Manipur Excavations (Archaeology) India, Northeastern Fouilles (Archéologie) Inde (Nord-Est) Fouilles (Archéologie) Inde Manipur India Manipur India, Northeastern Antiquities Manipur (India) Antiquities Northeastern India

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