Excavating Attirampakkam

 

History of Research

 

Our Aims 

 

Methodology

 

Preliminary Results

 

Further Reading

 

Acknowledgements

 

 

Excavating Attirampakkam 

Further Reading on Attirampakkam and associated topics

2005

(Y. Gunnell, C. Rajshekar, S. Pappu, A. Kumar) On the Depositional Environment of Lower Palaeolithic Horizons at the Prehistoric Site of Attirampakkam, Tamil Nadu, Current Science, in press.

2005

Archaeological Research and the Community: An example from Tamil Nadu, in Professor A. Sundara Felicitation Volume, in press.   

2005

(with Kumar Akhilesh) Prehistoric Archaeology and Community Education: earning from Excavations at Attirampakkam, Tamil Nadu, Humankind, 1:131-145.

2005

(with K. Akhilesh). Preliminary Observations on the Acheulian Assemblages from Attirampakkam, Tamil Nadu, paper presented at the Workshop on Acheulian, Large Cutting Tools, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, in press, Equinox. 

2004

(with Yanni Gunnell, Maurice Taieb and Kumar Akhilesh) Preliminary Report on Excavations at the Palaeolithic Site of Attirampakkam, Tamil Nadu (1999-2004),  Man and Environment, Volume XXIX (2):1-17. 

2004

Robert Bruce Foote and the Kortallayar Basin in Indian Prehistory: Old Problems and New Approaches, in Proceedings of the R.B. Foote Memorial National Seminar (1995) on Indian Prehistory and Protohistory (Recent Advances), (A. Sundara Ed.), pp. 45-67  . Directoriate of Archaeology and Museums, Government of Karnataka.

2003

 (with K. Akhilesh), 2003. The Palaeolithic Archaeology of the  Kortallayar river basin,  Tamil Nadu Kalvettu (Publication of the State Department of Archaeology, Government of Tamil Nadu) :16-23.          

2003

 (with Yanni Gunnell, Maurice Taieb, Jean-Philippe Brugal, Yannick    Touchard) Ongoing Excavations at the Palaeolithic Site of Attirampakkam, South India: Preliminary Findings  Current Anthropology, volume 44, number 4: 591-597.           

2003

(with, Yanni Gunnell, Maurice Taieb, Jean-Philippe Brugal, K. Anupama, Raman Sukumar and Kumar Akhilesh). Excavations at the Palaeolithic Site of Attirampakkam, South India, Antiquity, Vol 77 No 297 September 2003.

2002

 Excavations at the Palaeolithic Site of Attirampakkam, 2002, Avanam

2001

Middle Palaeolithic Stone Tool Technology in the Kortallayar Basin, South India, Antiquity 75(2001), No. 287:107-117

2001

The Environment in Prehistoric Research: A Case Study from the Kortallayar Basin, Tamil Nadu, in People and Environment in India: Essays in Environmental Anthropology (K.K. Misra and M.L.K. Murty Ed.); pp.24-38. New Delhi: Discovery Publishing House.

2001

Recent Research Into the Palaeolithic Archaeology of Tamil Nadu,South India, Praehistoria Vol.2:85-96.

2000

Archaeology in Schools: An Indian Example, Antiquity 74(2000): 485-6

1999

A Study of Natural Site Formation Processes in the Kortallayar Basin, Tamil Nadu, South India, Geoarchaeology: An International Journal. Vol.14, Number 2: 127-150.

1998

Discover India Gallery: The First Internet Site on Indian Archaeology, Archaeological Computing Newsletter, 50: 21 

1997

(with Hema Achyutan). Observations on the Geomorphology and Archaeology of Erumaivettipalayam, Red Hills, Tamil Nadu, Man and Environment XXII(1):87-90. 

1996

Geoarchaeological Investigations in the Kortallayar Basin, paper presented at the First Regional GEOSAS Workshop at Anna University, Chennai (Madras) in February 1996, in press

1994

(with A. Kshirsagar and Vijay Sathe). Discovery of a Middle Holocene Sub-Fossil Bone from Tiruvallur Taluk, Chingleput District, Tamil Nadu, Current Science, 67(6):431-433.

 1994

Pleistocene Landforms and Artefact Contexts in the Kortallayar Basin, Tamil Nadu, Draft Papers: Neogene and Quaternary. Settlement and Technology. World Archaeology Congress-3. New Delhi.

1994

Reinvestigation of the Prehistoric Archaeological Record in the Kortallayar Basin, Tamil Nadu, Man and Environment, XXI (1):1-23

 

Submitted two short notes on Birbhanpur Prehistoric Site and on the Madras Industry for publication in the Encyclopaedia of South Asian Archaeology, Ed. Gregory Possehl.

1991-92

Robert Bruce Foote and the Formation Processes of the Archaeological Record,  Bulletin of the Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute, Prof. S.M. Khatre Felicitation Volume, 51-52:647-654.