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Ethnoarchaeology (living archaeology) is an advance and fast growing multidisciplinary subject in which observation has been made by archaeologist on alive primitive societies which can lead to better understanding the past. It has two components of context: the first one is the context of the past and the secodn one is the context of the present which is based on ethnic society which must be pre-literate, non-urbanised and pre-industrail. Considerin the glorious past of rich material culture of India, it has to be admitted that very little work has been done to unforld the mysteries of complicated ancient iron technology through archaeometallurgical study which is rapidly growing discipline world wide. In this work an endeavour has been made to understand the iron metallurgy of the yore in India with the help of ethnographical study of the tribes of Chhotanagpur (Jharkhand) and Bastar (Chhattisgarh).
About Author :
Dr. Ashoka K. Mishra is a distinguished archaeologist in the multidisciplinary field of history of science and technolgy. After his postgraduation (1980) and Ph.D.(1985) in Ancient Indian History, culture and Archaeology from Bararas Hindu University, he joined as Lecturer of History in 1985 at Kashi Vidyapith, Varansi. At present he is Reader of Archaeology in the Department of History, Culture and Archaeology of Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Avadh University, Faizabad. He was awarded Kundkund Gyan Pith Puraskar in 1998 for his outstanding work on `Atomic hypothesis in Jainism;. From 1996 to 1999 he was associate at Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Rashtrapati Nivas, Shimla (an autonomous body running by Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India).
ISBN-8173200548
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Pages : 198
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