Sakir Hussain

Ispat Autonomous College · Department of History

The State of Odisha is a rich storehouse of rock art that includes both paintings and engravings. To date, 116 rock shelters have been reported from different parts of Odisha that preserve evidence of 6905 human signatures in the form of rock art. However, unlike other parts of the Indian subcontinent, a naturalistic representation of human activit...

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 is a preliminary report on the small-scale excavations carried out at single period Iron Age site of Kantipuleswar, a south-easternmost site in the middle Mahanadi valley of Odisha. It is one of the oldest dated Iron Age settlements in the region with three discernible developmental phases. The available evidence suggests an agro-...

Archaeological investigations conducted in the middle Mahanadi valley region of Odisha during the last three decades have brought to light evidence of human occupation ranging in date from the Lower Palaeolithic to the Early Historic period, without much discernible habitation hiatus. However, compared to the prehistoric and proto-historic settleme...

This edited book entitled "Recent Developments in Historical and Archaeological Researches in Odisha", incorporating seventeen essays on Odisha’s past from prehistory to the modern period. All the seventeen essays are original research papers based on primary and secondary data. These essays are arranged in chronological order and focused on differ...

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...

Recent archaeological investigations conducted in the tributaries of the Middle Mahanadi Valley region of Odisha have brought to light evidence for large-scale bead manufacturing workshop sites, i.e. Badmal Asurgarh and Bhutiapali belonging to the Early Historic period. Most interestingly, while the Badmal site is a fortified settlement, the latter...

Last few years' research in the state of Odisha has brought to light several megalithic sites of ethnic community and most of them belong to Austro-Asiatic group of family. Their megalithic structure is as that of other ethnic communities that follow megalithism in the present day in central eastern part of India. During the course of our research,...

Last three decades of systematic archaeological investigations conducted in the middle Mahanadi valley region of Odisha brought to light different aspects of human behaviour right from the Palaeolithic down to the early medieval period. One of such important aspects is the Megalithic tradition. The evidence for Megalithism in the present study area...

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The present-day Chhattisgarh region and western part of Odisha was known as Kosala (South Kosala) kingdom in historical literature. There are several archaeological settlements surrounded by moat/s and rampart wall/s. Majority of such settlements are located in Chhattisgarh, while a few are in the western part of Odisha. The present paper presents...

Archaeological investigations conducted in the middle Mahanadi valley region of Odisha during the last three decades have brought to light evidence of human occupation ranging in date from the Lower Palaeolithic to the Early Historic period, without much discernible habitation hiatus. However, compared to the prehistoric and protohistoric settlemen...

Last few years’ research in the state of Odisha has brought to light several megalithic sites of ethnic community and most of them belong to Austro‐Asiatic group of family. Their megalithic structure is as that of other ethnic communities that follow megalithism in the present day in central eastern part of India. During the course of our research,...

Last three decades of systematic archaeological investigations conducted in the middle Mahanadi valley region of Odisha brought to light different aspects of human behaviour right from the Palaeolithic down to the early medieval period. One of such important aspects is the Megalithic tradition. The evidence for Megalithism in the present study area...

The present investigation at Subulia, District- Subarnapur, Odisha brings to light Late Chalcolithic-Iron Age habitation site in the Middle Mahanadi Valley. The site was surveyed with several objectives i.e. to ascertain the stratigraphic context of the white-painted Black-and- Red Ware and associated materials and to understand the extension of Ch...

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Studies on Ceramic ethnoarchaeology provide valuable insight into the early pottery-using communities and the modern potters for both the archaeologists and the anthropologists alike. Pottery recovered in excavations and explorations from different parts of western Odisha provide data about the ancient settlements and also shed light on the diachro...

The antiquity of microlithic research in Odisha goes back to pre-independence era, and has brought to light extensive remains of lithic assemblages from the post-Pleistocene deposits in different parts of the state. All these sites have been reported from three distinct geomorphologic contexts, viz. along the banks of the rivers and its tributaries...