Excavations at Paithan, Maharashtra

Transformations in Early Historic and Early Medieval India

Derek Kennet, J. Varaprasada Rao, M. Kasturi Bai

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9783110653533
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110653540
• Topic: Theologie & Religion
• Subtopic: Asiatische Geschichte

This book reports on excavations at Paithan in India revealed the development of two early Hindu temples from the 4th century to the 9th: the key formative phase of Hinduism. The temples started as small shrines but were elaborated into formal temples. In relation to these changes, the excavations revealed a sequence of palaeobotanical and palaeofaunal evidence that give insight into the economic and social changes that took place at that time.

Table of contents

• Preface
• Table of Contents
• List of Tables
• List of Figures
• Part I Background to the project
• Chapter 1 The Scope of the Project and Its Background
• Chapter 2 Historical Context
• Chapter 3 Previous Archaeological Work at Paithan
• Part II The Excavations
• Introductory Remarks on the Excavations
• Chapter 4 The Brick Temples in Trench A
• Chapter 5 The Excavation of Trenches B, C, D, E and F
• Chapter 6 Periodisation and Dating of the Sequence
• Summary Remarks on the Excavations
• Part III The Finds
• Brief Remarks on the Finds
• Chapter 7 The Pottery
• Chapter 8 The Small Finds and Glass
• Chapter 9 The Coins
• Chapter 10 Summary of the Finds from the 1996 and 1997 Excavations
• Chapter 11 Objects Displayed in the Balasaheb Patil Government Museum
• Part IV Environmental Evidence
• Introductory Remarks on the Environmental Evidence
• Chapter 12 Archaeobotany
• Chapter 13 The Faunal Remains
• Part V Conclusions
• Chapter 14 Paithan in Its Regional, Historical and Cultural Context
• Chapter 15 Paithan Excavation: Historical, Archaeological, Geographical and Epigraphical Contexts
• Reference list
• Appendix I List of recorded contexts
• General Author Index
• General Subject Index