Pankaj Goyal

Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute · Department of Ancient Indian History, Culture and Archaeology

O.P. Jaggi, the well known historian of medicinal sciences, in a recent article tries to recapitulate the state of Indian hospitals during the ancient and medieval periods. It is remarkable to note that the state in India all through its history functioned as a welfare state and provided well organised health facilities to the destitute and the poo...

Secondary products like traction, milk and wool, etc. are those subsistence products from living animals which do not require the killing of an animal. The use of such products represents diversified and intensified animal husbandry systems. Additionally, secondary exploitation strategies not only expand the resource base but also subsistence surpl...

This article presents the results of 4 excavation seasons in which botanical and animal remains were collected at the Harappan site of Kanmer in the Kachchh District of Gujarat, India. The findings revealed a subsistence economy consisting of food production with domesticated plants and animals, hunting, fishing, and wild plant gathering. Cultural...

An annotated bibliography of Prof. P.P. Joglekar's publications is provided in this article. This article's coverage spans publications between 1986 and 2022. Joglekar wrote more than 200 research articles during this time, in addition to a total of 13 books. He also wrote articles for general audiences in the form of popular articles. This paper i...

While faunal studies in mainland India are constantly expanding and diversifying, the same cannot be said for the northeastern part of the country. The current state of archaeozoological research in Northeast India is reviewed in this paper. The main purpose of this article is to present an introspective appraisal of (a) what has been done so far,...

Archaeological investigations in coastal Odisha have largely focused on early farming culture sites and the succeeding Early Historic sites. Explorations and excavations have suggested that the delta of Daya River has been occupied by humans at least since the 2nd millennium BCE. There was hardly any evidence of pre-existing Palaeolithic cultures o...

This volume originates in a conference session that took place at the 2018 International Council of Archaeozoology conference in Ankara, Turkey, entitled "Humans and Cattle: Interdisciplinary Perspectives to an Ancient Relationship." The aim of the session was to bring together zooarchaeologists and their colleagues from various other research fiel...

The site of Kapasira, district Subarnapur, Odisha, is the northernmost multicultural settlement of the Early Village Farming communities. With the continuation of the late Chalcolithic characteristic features, the site flourished during the Iron Age period and continued up to the Early Historic times. Though just after the earliest phase of the Ear...

The archaeozoological study of the Iron Age site of Kapasira, located about 15 km northwest of Subarnapur district of Odisha, provided valuable evidence for a better understanding of animal-based subsistence strategies of the Iron Age people in Middle Mahanadi Valley. The excavation at the site revealed three broad phases of Iron Age occupation, vi...

The present paper deals with the analysis of archaeofaunal remains excavated from the site of Gottiprolu, located in SPSR Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh, excavations of which revealed a fairly large, fortified settlement of the Satavahana period. A total of 11,722 animal skeletal parts were examined from 14 trenches whose taxonomic identificati...

Through an ichthyoarchaeological approach, 452 fish skeletal elements were identified to taxonomic levels from 1220 fragments of fish bones from the excavation of Harappan settlement at Kanmer in Gujarat datable to c. 2600-1900 BCE. Nine fish families were identified which include Latidae, Bagridae, Sparidae, Ariidae, Siluridae, Carcharhinidae/Dasy...

Kantipuleswar, an Iron Age site in the Middle Mahanadi Valley, is located in Angul District, Odisha. A small-scale excavation at this site was conducted by the Post Graduate Department of History, Sambalpur University, Odisha. The excavation at the site revealed three broad phases of Iron Age occupation, viz., Phase I (Early Iron Age), Phase II (Mi...

Until the beginning of the nineties of the last century, almost nothing was known about the separate cultural status of an Iron Age phase in the archaeological profile of Odisha. It was during the excavation of Golbai Sason in the coastal plains of Odisha that, for the first time, a Ferro-Chalcolithic phase, overlaying a full-fledged Chalcolithic d...

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Present article is an attempt to understand the economic conditions during the reign of the Western Kshatrapas through their silver coins. A total of 168 coins of 14 different kings were taken into the consideration for the work and their silver content is discussed. Statistical analyses have been done to get quantitative support to the inferences...

At most of the archaeological sites in India remains of large bovid species such as cattle (Bos indicus), buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) and the nilgai (Boselaphus tragocamelus) are found. However, being closely related species, it is difficult to separate these three large bovid species. For secure identification osteological keys based on distinguishi...

The present paper presents a fulI report ofthe analysis conducted on the faunal remains excavated from the Megalithic burial-cum-habitation site of Malli, located in Tiroda Taluka of Gondia District, Maharashtra. It is important to note that Malli is the only excavated site in the Upper Wainganga ..iValley. Atotal of 5195 animal skeletal fragments...

The paper deals with the analysis of the faunal remains recovered from the Iron Age deposits at Badmal, located in Western Odisha. Badmal (21º 6’ 22’’N; 84º 03’ 37’’ E) locally known as Asurgarh, lies around half a kilometre south-west of the village of similar name. The site was subjected to limited excavation in 2002-03 by Sambalpur University at...

This article presents the results of 4 excavation seasons in which botanical and animal remains were collected at the Harappan site of Kanmer in the Kachchh District of Gujarat, India. The findings revealed a subsistence economy consisting of food production with domesticated plants and animals, hunting, fishing, and wild plant gathering. Cultural...

This paper deals with the preliminary observations of the analysis conducted on the faunal remains unearthed at the site of Shikarpur. A single trench ES4 was selected as a research sample from the excavation conducted by the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History; M.S. University of Baroda, Gujarat State, India in 2007-08. A total of 6250 s...