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The exploration of ancient Sri Lankan frescoes, particularly those found at the Sigiriya rock fortress, offers a profound insight into...

In the pursuit of fostering a vibrant and informed audience around the ancient Sigiriya rock fortress, it becomes increasingly evident...

INTRODUCTION 1. SIGIRI, ITS HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION 1. THE rugged mass of granite forming the rock of Sigiri(1 Sigiri is in the Inämaluve...

BENILLE PRIYANKA This article is a continuation of an earlier paper on the same subject which appeared in The Settlement Archaeology of...

Relic-Chamber Paintings The use of painted decoration and ritual or didactic representations in association with free-standing...

One of Asia's major archaeological sites, Sigiriya presents a uniq concentration of fifth-century urban planning, architecture, gardenin eng

The Sigiriya Royal Gardens Analysis of the Landscape Architectonic Composition

THE ROCK AND WALL IPAINTINGS OF SRI LANKA EARLY AND MIDDLE PERIOD PAINTING 25 The Art of Sigiriya 26 The Boulder-Garden Paintings ...

THE ROCK AND WALL IPAINTINGS OF SRI LANKA The evolution of a pictorial tradition Prehistoric Art ...

SENAKE BANDARANAYAKE WITH PHOTOGRAPHS BY GAMINI JAYASINGHE THE EVOLUTION OF A PICTORIAL TRADITION Prehistoric Art ...

T.R. PREMATHILAKE, S. EPITA WATTE, ANURA YASAPALA, EVA MYRDAL- RUNEBJER This is a list of plants and material of plant origin used in the...

One of the most striking features of the excavations in rural settlement sites, conducted as part of the SARCP program, has been the very...

Gamini Adikari When compared with prehistoric research undertaken so far, there is some special significance in this study, in that it is...

Editors Senake Bandaranayake Mats Mogren Associate Editors Eva Myrdal-Runebjer Seneviratne Epitawatte Amy de Silva Nilu Abeyaratne...

PRISHANTHA GUNAWARDANE Figure 19.1 A Laha used for measuring dry grains. Nagalavava Village. Photo: Prishantha Gunawardane. The system of...

EVA MYRDAL-RUNEBJER, DAMAYANTHI GUNAWARDENA, SUDARSHANI FERNANDO* * Damayanthi Gunawardena was responsible for the study of rural...

Eva Myrdal-Runebjer and Anura Yasapala This presentation has two aims. One is simply to present the traditional hunting, trapping,...

EVA MYRDAL-RUNEBJER "Thus in a sense, the history of the Island has been viewed in the main as the history of the activities of kings,...

EVA MYRDAL-RUNEBJER "Usually, facts are seen only in as much as there is place for them in the observer ’s mind - it is for this very...

RAJ SOMADEVA INTRODUCTION Scattered in the 446.6 square miles which form the study area (Bandaranayake 1990:14) lie nearly 300 lithic...

EVA MYRDAL-RUNEBJER INTRODUCTION The present study is an archaeological case study of an aban­ doned pre-modem irrigation system in...

Studies of Sigiriya have in the main concentrated on the western sector of the royal city complex. The Water Gardens, summer palaces,...

W.A. KUMARADASA Figure 9:1 Great retaining wall around Mapagala on the western side of the rock. Seen from the north. Photo: Mats Mogren...