Highlights issues related to cultural heritage and its vulnerability to looting and the illicit antiquities trade. SAFE's mission is to increase public awareness of the importance of preserving cultural heritage worldwide

Offers a source of jobs, news, announcements, consultant listings, and resources for students and professionals interested in archaeology, historic preservation, museums, and architectural history

The archaeology section of the World Wide Web Virtual Library

A directory of photographs for educational use relating to archaeology and art history

Archaeology web sites, with some anthropology thrown in

Covers significant discoveries from archaeology about human origins. Illustrated descriptions of hominids, with references. Articles, images, bookstore and links

Archaeology and related subjects presented through streaming media by the Oregon-based Archaeological Legacy Institute. Videos can be viewed on-line and purchased

Internet directory maintained by Historic Archaeological Research of history and archaeology web sites, including organizations, directories, technical references, online publications

Reviewed and categorized directory of resources on archaeology, anthropology, and ancient civilizations

Articles and directory of Internet sites, including a world atlas of archaeology on the web

An outreach program at the University of Missouri-St. Louis that offers instruction to people of all ages in both cultural and physical anthropology. Site features lesson plans and educational resources

A non-profit consortium of schools and research institutions collecting and compiling information to facilitate cross-cultural studies in ethnography and archaeology. Features list of publications and subscription information

The NAA collects and preserves historical and contemporary anthropological materials that document the world's cultures and the history of anthropology

Banawali Mound lies 14 kms, north-west of Fatehbad on the right bank of the Rangoi Nala. It is spread over an 1kmsq area and is 10 meters high

On the southeast coast of India just south of Pondicherry, is the most famous archaeological site in southern India. Discovered in the 1930s and quickly linked with Roman trade, it was excavated three times in the 1940s. The first excavation was an amate

An article in The South Asian describing excavations at the village of Rakhigarhi, about 150km from Delhi

From IndiaExpress, the roof of a cell on the walls of the Purana Qila collapsed due to heavy rains that lashed the city last week, according to workers at the monument

A nine-year search ended successfully for MSu archaeologists this winter when their two-month excavation in Rajkot's Bagasra opened gates to a new city

Treats the beginning of Brahmanical figures in Northern India which are seen as visual images of cosmogonic theory. Their anthropomorphic figures are emanatory, issuing from a central figure and represent, not a group of figures, but a process of cosmic

From Express India, the State got its first world heritage site on Thursday when the medieval ruins of Champaner-Pavagadh town was declared a world heritage site by UNESCO

From Daily Times, historical sites in Gujrat are crumbling and the district government has made no arrangements to preserve and protect the rich heritage for future generations

From New Inda Press, research team of Kongu Naadu Vellalar Trust has found a 1,000-year-old sculpture at Athanur Amman Temple near Rasipuram, highlighting the importance of trade activities of Tamils

Extensive excavation in the last seven months at Adi Badri site, 40 km north of the Yamunanagar district in Haryana, has yielded a 300 AD Kushan site, and speculation that this may be the spot where the river had originated

From New India Press, Indian government has decided to take up excavation along the entire stretch of what was once the route of the long dried Saraswati river from Haryana to Gujarat

Metallurgists at Kanpur IIT have discovered that a thin layer of misawite, a compound of iron, oxygen and hydrogen, has protected the 1,600-year-old cast iron pillar from rust

Sites sampled included two that were under excavation by the Tamil State Government Department of Archaeology and one which Dr. Rajan has had excavations on in the past

This study, in collaboration with Professor J. N. Pal hopes to assess the evidence for early rice cultivation, as well as other crops, from the Mesolithic to Neolithic archaeological sequence provided by the sites of Chopani-Mando, Koldihwa and Mahagara

Review by D. P. Agrawal of Dilip K. Chakrabarti's 2003 volume

An article by Shailendra Bhandare on approaches to the classification of Archaic Indian punch marked coins

An alternative explanation of alleged artifacts from the Gulf of Cambay, western India

An article from the BBC reporting the discovery of two statues of King Asoka

Features an illustrated article about mesolithic artists who loved to paint animals

A survey of Buddhist archaeological sites with links to photographs of surviving stupas and museum sculpture collections

An article in Frontline reporting that participants at the Kolkata session of the Indian History Congress express concern over attempts to distort history in school textbooks and thus subvert secular education

A description of the Harappan site at Dholavira

Features articles on Banawali, Dholavira, and Burzahom, archaeological sites in India

Significant conceptual developments in Indian prehistory and Quaternary studies had their origin in research at this site, which was also characterised as a type-site of the Acheulian handaxe-based 'Madras Industries'

A brief description and justification for inscription

Discussion with two eminent historians on the underwater discoveries in the Gulf of Khambat, announced in January 2002

An editorial article in Frontline discussing history as projected by Hindutva ideologues, which is being introduced to children through textbooks and is being imposed upon research institutes

Articles and images

An article from the BBC reporting the excavation in Bihar, of one of the world's tallest Buddhist stupas

Recent digs in the ancient town that was Dholavira are revealing a civilization vastly ahead of its time

From the BBC, a city which has been the subject of legend for thousands of years is discovered off the south-east coast of India

In India, copper ores are found in various parts of Rajasthan, Gujarat, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, and Andhra Pradesh. There is evidence of mining and the making of copper artifacts

Article by Dr. Michael W. Meister discussing a red sandstone attached sculpture of Narasimha (Vishnu as the Man-Lion or Killer of Demons)

Asian Perspectives 41(1). Human skeletal remains from a burial site in southern India excavated in the 1960s by the Department of Archaeology and Museums of the Government of Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad, have been analyzed

In ancient times, Mathura was also known by other names such as Madhura and Madhupura

An article discussing research into mDNA base sequences, combined with archaeological and linguistic data as applied to the question of the peopling of India

Examples of cave art dating back over 20,000 years