Andre Baptista

• PhD
• Visiting Consultant and Lecturer at Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture and Environmental Studies

The volume predominantly focuses on various cultural and environmental aspects of the Lower Palaeolithic Acheulian tradition in India, particularly in the peninsular region; however, a few papers are dedicated to the pursuit of other features of Indian prehistory in a broader sense. Cultural typology and technology, adaptive and behavioural strateg...

The questions posed by the inscrutable occurrence of ferricrete in the Karha Basin, especially in the absence of an observable primary source, were only compounded by its association with Acheulian artefacts. Ferricrete, in a detrital form of cobble/pebble size and occasionally boulder size are part of the Acheulian artefact-bearing gravel at Saswa...

Palaeolithic cultures in the Kaladgi region, specifically in the Ghataprabha and Malaprabha River Basins, have been a topic of academic pursuit ever since their mid-19 th century discovery. Palaeolithic investigations over the years have provided insights into site distribution, artefact typology and technology, and transitions therein, raw materia...

We acknowledge with gratitude the comments by Pearce et al on our paper on the Acheulian and Tephra in the Deccan Volcanic Province in Peninsula India with reference to the sites of Bori and Morgaon. These comments are appreciated, and have been duly taken under advisement.

The two Early Acheulian sites of Bori and Morgaon from the Deccan Volcanic Province in Upland Maharashtra, India bear some association with an acidic tephra deposit in a fluvial context. Acheulian artefacts in association with tephra were first reported in India from the site of Bori and numerous efforts to date this tephra have since been undertak...

An efficacious elucidation of man’s cultural past through Archaeology’s primary concern – material culture – can only be effectuated by a meticulous examination and thorough understanding of the context in which these artefacts occur. However, when perceiving the archaeological record from excavations, a direct relationship between the manner in wh...

The Acheulian site of Anagwadi, Karnataka, India was explored and excavated in the 1960s by R.S. Pappu. A pebbly conglomerate present in the dry bed of a channel feeder of the Ghataprabha, a tributary of the River Krishna was excavated. The evidence pointed to the site’s open-air semi primary nature. However, these initial studies merely made a pas...

Laterites or ferricretes, in their detrital form, were first identified in the Karha Valley by Rajaguru and colleagues during the early 2000s. They were reported from various localities such as Saswad, Jejuri and Morgaon, occurring in colluvio-alluvial contexts, and were associated with Acheulian-bearing archaeological horizons comprising sandy-peb...

Culture, that intricate whole of any human society and community, finds form through a myriad of tangible and intangible expressions. Within these expressions are traces of the long and varied legacies of the times and trials of each community. Such expressions are embodied in the food and culinary practices in one of Mumbai’s well assimilated Chri...

The Acheulian site of Anagwadi, Karnataka, India was explored and excavated in the 1960s by R.S. Pappu. An artefact-bearing conglomerate present in the dry bed of a channel feeder (nala) of the Ghataprabha, a tributary of the River Krishna was excavated. The evidence pointed to the site’s open-air semi primary nature. However, these initial studies...

Palaeolithic archaeology has been an important subject for understanding human evolution. These studies in India were initiated in the second half of 19th century by Robert Bruce Foote with the discovery of Palaeolithic sites in parts of peninsular India. The Deccan volcanic province though remained neglected. A major breakthrough was made by Sanka...

The Acheulian site of Anagwadi, Karnataka, India was explored and excavated in the 1960s by R.S. Pappu. A pebbly conglomerate present in the dry bed of a channel feeder of the Ghataprabha, a tributary of the River Krishna was excavated. The evidence pointed to the site’s open-air semi primary nature. However, these initial studies overlooked two gi...

Symbols are considered to be an inextricable part of modern human culture and society. Archaeologists endeavour to document and understand the evolution of cognitive systems capable of symboling activity by juxtaposing objects from the archaeological record remnant of such intent against models prescribed by cognitive science. While there exists am...

During explorations ancillary to the excavations at the early medieval site of Sanjan (2002-2004) the excavators came across the structural remains of a small fort on the Varoli River approximately 1km south of the site. Systematic explorations in the vicinity of the site revealed a number of structures with architectural similarity to a large ruin...