About the Book :

The book Indian Prehistoric Archaeological Anthropology is a valuable contribution in describing sites, industries, traditions and cultures of our those ancestors who were struggling hard for their survivals as hunters, gatherers, cave dwellers and parasite on nature particularly forest. They had faced environments like glacial and interglacial and pluvial and interpluvial. They were not literate. Their entire lifestyle has been reconstructed on the basis of stone tools, copper tools, bronze tools, iron tools and different types and designs of potteries. On the basis of their struggle they progressed through three successive stages — Savagery, barbarism and civilization. They led a life of savage from lower palaeolithic to mesolithic period. They gave rise to revolution in neolithic period and entered in the stage of barbarism. By establishing organized civil and urban life in Indus Valley they established the civilization. After downfall of Indus Valley civilization they laid the foundation of village civilization along with copper smithy, bronze smithy and ceramic industries. Finally, they gave rise the Iron age culture along with pottery designs, and ceramic industries. The book covers 14 chapters and more than 325 maps, river sections, site sections, picture of stone tools, copper tools, copper objects, iron tools, house designs, potteries, ceramic industries and terracotta figures.

About Author :

Gaya Pandey (b. 1954) is a retired Professor of Anthropology, Ranchi University, Ranchi. During his whole academic career, he has to his credit 30 books and 40 articles. Books are on different papers which are taught in different universities of India in undergraduate and postgraduate departments of Anthropology. The books are in both Hindi and English medium. Articles have been published in different journals of repute. He actively participated in more than two dozen national and international seminars held in India. Nine Ph.D. scholars have been awarded Ph.D. degree under his supervision by the University of Ranchi.