[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989) › v1.c26.1 # An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c26.1 An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c26.1 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c26.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c26.1) Abbevillian, 20, 22, 24; feeble element of, 20; hand-axe, pebble tools, massive flakes in, 23 Abbevillio-Acheulian culture, axes and cleavers (Madras type) at, 165; industries in, 24; subdivisions of, 21 Abbevillio-Acheulian tradition, hand-axes of, 23 Abyssinia, 7 \*Acacia nilotica\* (L.) Del (\*babul\*), 8 \*Acacia\* sp. (\*babul\*), 8 \*Acacia\* spp. (\*Lequiminosae: Mimosodae\*), 47 Acheulian, 24, 26, 27, 31, 39, 165; artefacts, 26; assemblage, 25; culture, 208; facies, 24, 25; habitation, 26; implements, 22, 23, 24, 25, 32; industry, 20, 24, 25, 199; man, 285; period, 285; phase, 22; remains, 23; sites, 200, 285; stages (Early, Late, Middle), 20; times, 200, 281, 286; tools, 24, 30, 199, 200, 215, 285; tradition, 23, 24, 25, 26, 31 Achutrajapuram (Orissa), bronze \*ghanta\* and \*pūrna-ghata\* at, 265 acrophony, 364 Acyu, coins of, 172 Adamgarh, 20, 24, 30, 281; animal remains from, 37; archaeozoological remains at, 1; bones of domestic animals at, 47; bones of domestic pig at, 5; \*Bos namadicus\*, at, 2; ¹⁴C date from, 192; ¹⁴C dated time-spreads of, 170; cattle and dog domestication at, 41; dating, 170; domestic buffalo remains from, 2; domestication of animals at, 314; faunal assemblages from, 314; faunal evidence from, 40, 314; hunting and gathering with stock-breeding at, 41; industries at, 24; Mesolithic awls from, 176; Mesolithic deposits at, 39; Mesolithic levels of, 4; Mesolithic site, 37, 41; microlithic industry at, 47; Neolithic awls at, 176; rock-shelters at, 20, 21, 22, 39, 40, 279, 281, 284, 286, 287; settlers taking to animal husbandry at, 287; skeletal remains of animals at, 314; skeletal remains of domestic dogs (Mesolithic level) from, 4; tool assemblage from, 30 Adichanallur, bridle-bits at, 336; bronze diadems at, 223; celts from 111; dagger at, 356; double-edged sword at, 357; gold diadems at, 223, 327; handled vessels at, 189; hoard of iron swords at, 357; iron arrowheads grouping of, 353; iron axes from, 177; iron sickles at, 187; knives at, 356; knobbed and animal-topped lid-finial from, 249; Megalithic chisels of iron from, 178; Megalithic skull from, 116, 317, 318; moulded plaques at, 347; non-lithic urn burials at, 114; non-Mongoloid brachycephalic race from, 318; pottery at, 249; spearheads from, 357; urn burial objects at, 328 \*Adina cordifolia\* Hook f. (\*haldu\*), 8 Adis of Nefa, 358 adzes (metallic), 45, 56, 57, 58, 59, 63, 66, 68, 76, 121, 136, 176-77, 299, 334 adze hammer, 181 adze wedges, 46 Aegean Megarian Ware, 257 Aegean Sea region, gems in, 222 Afghanistan, 1, 3, 7, 70, 85, 189, 220, 260, 327; import from, 88; silver ores from, 327 Africa, 1, 6, 7, 8, 19, 21, 47, 164, 192, 193, 204, 212, 267, 310, 311, 312, 313, 331; cereal originated in, 6; east, 1; indurated laterite in, 204; north, 1 - [Previous: v1.c25.s4.t1.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c25.s4.t1.11) - [Next: v1.c26.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c26.2) - [Up: v1.c26](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c26) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c26.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c26.1) · Pramāṇa