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Maritime Archaeological Study on Cowry Shells (Monetaria moneta) that discovered from the Ancient Harbour Ambalangoda

Maritime Archaeological Study on Cowry Shells (Monetaria moneta) that discovered from the Ancient Harbour Ambalangoda

Mahinda Karunarathna, Development officer, Regional Office (Central), Department of Archaeology. WM. Chandrarathne, Officer in Charge, Maritime Archaeology Unit, Galle Project, CCF.

  Abstract

The main objective of this research is to explicate the significance of Cowry Shells (Monetaria moneta) that discovered from the Ancient Harbour of Ambalangoda which located at No 85 –Patabandimulla Grama…

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ශිලාලිපි සංඥාර්ථවේදය - සුරෝෂන ඉරංග

ශිලාලිපි සංඥාර්ථවේදය – සුරෝෂන ඉරංග

කතාගෙන් වචනයක්

ශ්‍රී ලංකාව වසර දෙදහස් පන්සියයකටත් එහා ගිය ලිඛිත ඉතිහාසයකට උරුමකම් කියනු ලබන රටකි. එම ඉතිහාසය සාහිත්‍ය මූලාශ්‍රවලින් මෙන්ම ශිලාලිපි වැනි නොබිඳිය හැකි පුරාවිද්‍යාත්මක සාක්ෂ්‍ය ඔස්සේ ද තහවුරු වී තිබේ. විශේෂයෙන්ම සාහිත්‍ය මූලාශ්‍ර මගින් හෙළිවන කරුණු පුරාවිද්‍යාත්මක සාක්ෂ ඔන්සේ තවදුරටත් සත්‍යක්ෂණය වීම නිසා මෙරටේ සැඟවී ඇති ඉතිහාසය ලෝකය ඉදිරියේ ප්‍ර ණය කරනු ලබන කැඩපතක් ලෙස මෙම…

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ENVIRONMENT, TOWN, VILLAGE AND MONASTIC PLANNING - Dr Roland Silva

ENVIRONMENT, TOWN, VILLAGE AND MONASTIC PLANNING – Dr Roland Silva

PREFACE The subject of Architecture and Town Planning in Sri Lanka, during the Early and Medieval Periods, is indeed, vast. It is for this reason that the original plan of publishing a single mega volume on the Religious Edifices and another on the Secular Buildings was revised, to present the full range in a series of volumes, to cover most items of architectural or planning expression.…

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Spolia Zeylanica Vol. 37 - An Introduction to the COSTAL GEOMORPHOLOGY of SRI LANKA - Bernard Swan

Spolia Zeylanica Vol. 37 – An Introduction to the COSTAL GEOMORPHOLOGY of SRI LANKA – Bernard Swan

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This introduction to the coastal geomorphology of Sri Lanka originated in an idea sparked off by the late Professor K. Kularatnam two and a half decades ago. At the practical level it was made possible by field and laboratory studies conducted over the years; by the cooperation and assistance of many persons and organisations in Sri Lanka, particularly by the Division of Coast…

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Inscriptions of Ceylon, Volume V Part II – Prof Sirimal Ranawella

Inscriptions of Ceylon, Volume V Part II – Prof Sirimal Ranawella

There are more than 500 inscriptions belonging to the 8th, 9th and 10th centuries A.D. Out of these 115 inscriptions from the time of Adipada – Kitakbo up to King Kassapa V have been published in Inscription of Ceylon Vol V, Part 1. The Part II of the same volume we added another 74 Inscription in the era of King Dappula IV to King Mahinda V, the last King of Anuradhapura. Most of these…

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Experimental archaeology: fundamentals of the manufacture and use of prehistoric stone artifacts

Experimental archaeology: fundamentals of the manufacture and use of prehistoric stone artifacts

Introduction

The PGIAR is planning to organize a workshop on experimental archaeology: fundamentals of the manufacture and use of prehistoric stone artifacts on 29th -30th of December, 2018 from 9.00 am at the PGIAR labs/auditorium. The objective of this workshop is to understand stone tool making industry and their functions. Students will be provided with raw material, hammerstones, etc. and…

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History of The Kingdom Of Rohana from The Earliest Times to 1500 A.C – Prof Sirimal Ranawella

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The Growth of Buddhist Monastic Institutions in Sri Lanka From Brāhmī Inscriptions Epigraphia Zeylanica Volume VIII Dr Malani Dias

The Growth of Buddhist Monastic Institutions in Sri Lanka From Brāhmī Inscriptions Epigraphia Zeylanica Volume VIII Dr Malani Dias

ABSTRACT

The propagation of Buddhism in Sri Lanka in the third century B.C. as witnessed by the lithic records and the chronicles was due to the efforts of the Buddhist monks who spread Theravada or the orthodox tradition of the religion in the first few centuries. Its spread went parallel with the growth of monastic institutions in the island.

At first the patronage extended by the kings and the…

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A conference on understanding the values embedded in burial archaeological sites in Southernmost India

A conference on understanding the values embedded in burial archaeological sites in Southernmost India

This conference is focused on understanding the values embedded in burial archaeological sites in southernmost India. The objective of the conference is to discuss the importance of burial archaeology to academia and its significance in promoting postgraduate research related to archaeology in the country. It has been said that values embedded in historic buildings, archaeological sites, and…

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Epigraphical Notes Nos 1- 18 - Dr. Malani Dias

Epigraphical Notes Nos 1- 18 – Dr. Malani Dias

Preface The printing of the formal research conducted in Epigraphy by the Department was initiated with the first volume of the Epigraphia Zeylanica, published under the editorship of Dr. D. M. de Z. Wickramasinghe in 1912. Two volumes of the Epigraphia Zeylanica were edited by him and Professor S. Paranavitana brought out the next four volumes. Altogether seven volumes of this journal have been…

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Inscriptions of Ceylon, Volume V Part I - Prof Sirimal Ranawella

Inscriptions of Ceylon, Volume V Part I – Prof Sirimal Ranawella

From the

PREFACE

This is the first part I of the ‘Inscriptions of Ceylon, Volume V; it contains a historical introduction to the texts and translations of 115 inscriptions, both published and unpublished , belonging to the period between 815 to 923 AD, covering the reigns of Kings Dappula II (815-831), Sena I (833-853), Sena II (853-887), Udaya II (887-898) Kassapa IV (909-914) and Kassapa V…

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The Archaeological Heritage of Jaffna Peninsula | යාපනය අර්ධද්වීපයේ පුරාවිද්‍යා උරුමය | யாழ்ப்பாணத் தீபகற்பத்தின் தொல்பொருளியல் மரபுரிமை

The Archaeological Heritage of Jaffna Peninsula | යාපනය අර්ධද්වීපයේ පුරාවිද්‍යා උරුමය | யாழ்ப்பாணத் தீபகற்பத்தின் தொல்பொருளியல் மரபுரிமை

ප‍්‍රස්තාවනාව වර්තමාන ශ්‍රී ලංකා වේ හින්දු දෙමළ සංස්කෘතියේ කැපී පෙනෙන නියෝජනයක් සහිත ස්ථානයක් ලෙස යාපනය අර්ධද්වීපය හැඳින්විය හැකිය. ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ යාපන අර්ධද්වීපය කෙරෙහි යුරෝපීය ජාතීන්ගේ අවධානය යොමුවීමට බලපෑ ප්‍රධාන සාධක කිහිපයකි. ඒ අතුරින් ස්වාභාවික නැව් තොටුපළ, කුළුබඩු වෙළඳාම ප්‍රමුඛත්වයෙහිලා සැලකිය හැකිය.

1505 දී පෘතුගීසින් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට පැමිණෙන විට යාපනය අර්ධද්වීපයේ බල�� නතු කරගෙන සිටියේ…

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ලක් දිව සෙල්ලිපිවලින් හෙළි වන සිංහල භාෂාවේ ���්‍රත්‍යයාර්ථ නාමයන්ගේ විකාශනය (ක්‍රි. පූර්ව 3 ශ.ව. – ක්‍රි.ව. 10 ශ.ව. දක්වා ) ශිලාලිපි සංග්‍රහය III වෙළුම

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A Workshop on Understanding Wetland Palaeoecology/ Environmental Archaeology and Integrated Microscopy Approaches in Archaeobotany

A Workshop on Understanding Wetland Palaeoecology/ Environmental Archaeology and Integrated Microscopy Approaches in Archaeobotany

Introduction

The PGIAR is planning to organize a workshop on understanding wetland palaeoecology/ environmental archaeology and integrated microscopy approaches in archaeobotany on 13th  – 14th of December, 2018. This workshop will include lectures, discussions, and demonstrations on microscopic observations on the materials collected from the Horton Plains, Muthurajawella wetlands/Negombo Lagoon…

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ශ්‍රී ලංකා ශිලාලේඛන සංග්‍රහය IV වෙළුම – මහාචාර්යය ඇස්. පරණවිතාන

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මාර්ග පුරාණය – ආචාර්ය පී. විදානපතිරණ

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ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ප්‍රාග් ඉතිහාසය – ආචාර්ය සිරාන් දැරණියගල