Preface by the President of EASAA 22 / Eva Myrdal
List of contributors
Representing the past: early India / Romila Thapar
Late pleistocene microlithic industries in the Ayodhya HIlls, West Bengal, Eastern India: reconstructing a past use of landscape / Bishnupriya Basak
Investigating adaptation to climate change in the archaeological record: a conceptual framework and an isotopic approach in the Indus civilization / Penelope J. Jones, Ravindra Nath Singh, Cameron A. Petrie, Tamsin C. O'Connell, Martin K. Jones
Regional variations of the Harappan seals in light of their design and carving techniques observed trhough SEM and PEAKIT (3D) analyses / Ayumu Konasukawa
New ivory rods from Mohenjo-daro and an exploration of this object class / Heidi J. Miller
Inscriptions incised on Harappan ivory/bone rods and their parallels among other types of inscribed object / Asko Parpola
Weight metrology in the Harappan civilization / Lorenz Rahmstorf
Aristobulus of Cassandreia: an engineer at the court of Alexander the Great / Manuel Albaladejo Vivero
Pastoral elements in Mathurā art (1st-3rd centuries CE) / Chandreyi Basu
Contextualizing the representation of Avalokiteśvara and Tārā in the Buddhist clay moulded tablets in Eastern India and Bangladesh (7th-13th centuries CE) / Suchandra Ghosh
Śiva Dakṣiṇāmūrti or Sage Nārāyaṇa? Reconsidering an early terracotta panel from Ahichhatrā / Laxshmi Rose Greaves
The production landscapes of southern Andhra Pradesh: the Swarnamukhi River Valley survey 2013-2014 / Praveena Gullapalli, Shinu Anna Abraham, K.P. Rao
The elephant in the room: archaeology and the early medieval period in India / Jason D. Hawkes
A forgotten source about the ancient Indian Ocean trade / Klaus Karttunen
The religious background of Mahasthan / Vincent Lefèvre, Jean-François Salles
The pottery from Mazar excavations at Mahasthangarh (Bangladesh) and its implications for the early medieval period of the ancient North Bengal / Coline Lefrancq
New architecture in old Pakistan: Mari-Indus, Zalamkot, and Katas / Michael W. Meister
Devapaṭṭas at Gaya, Bihar / Gerd J.R. Mevissen
Shell bangles, body adornment and "Indianization" process: some insights from the late Kushan phase at Bīr-koṭ-ghwaṇḍai (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan) / Roberto Micheli
The chronological benchmarks for Gandhāran sculptures / Satoshi Naiki
Inscribed images donated by merchants in Bihar and Bengal (8th-12th century) / Satantani Pal
Messing up the system: Gupta gold coin forgeries / Ellen M. Raven
A new glimpse on hypaethral Yoginī temples of India / Caroline Riberaigua
From narrative to iconic picture: when image becomes a pictogram / Marion Le Sauce-Carnis
Far and wide across the Indian Ocean: an analytical investigation into distribution networks across the Indian Ocean and beyond / Joanne E. Shoebridge
Maruya Pāṭaliputra: a re-assessment of the structural remains / Daniela De Simone
A study on a newly found triton image from Gandhāra / Tadashi Tanabe.