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Sigiri Graffiti Intro 001
INTRODUCTION 1. SIGIRI, ITS HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION 1. THE rugged mass of granite forming the rock of Sigiri(1 Sigiri is in the Inämaluve...
Jul 24, 20234 min read
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Sigiri Graffiti: New Readings
BENILLE PRIYANKA This article is a continuation of an earlier paper on the same subject which appeared in The Settlement Archaeology of...
Jul 24, 202310 min read
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Relic-Chamber Paintings & Polonnaruva Murals
Relic-Chamber Paintings The use of painted decoration and ritual or didactic representations in association with free-standing...
Jul 23, 20236 min read
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SIGIRIYA The Cultural Tangle
One of Asia's major archaeological sites, Sigiriya presents a uniq concentration of fifth-century urban planning, architecture, gardenin eng
Jul 5, 202324 min read
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The Sigiriya Royal Gardens Analysis of the Landscape Architectonic Composition
The Sigiriya Royal Gardens Analysis of the Landscape Architectonic Composition
Jan 4, 202256 min read
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Early and middle period painting
THE ROCK AND WALL IPAINTINGS OF SRI LANKA EARLY AND MIDDLE PERIOD PAINTING 25 The Art of Sigiriya 26 The Boulder-Garden Paintings ...
Nov 8, 202135 min read
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The evolution of a pictorial tradition
THE ROCK AND WALL IPAINTINGS OF SRI LANKA The evolution of a pictorial tradition Prehistoric Art ...
Nov 6, 202134 min read
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THE ROCK AND WALL IPAINTINGS OF SRI LANKA
SENAKE BANDARANAYAKE WITH PHOTOGRAPHS BY GAMINI JAYASINGHE THE EVOLUTION OF A PICTORIAL TRADITION Prehistoric Art ...
Nov 6, 20213 min read
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Plants Used in the Household
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...
Sep 1, 202118 min read
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Appendix I: The Methodology of the 1992 SARCP Pottery Analysis Workshop.
One of the most striking features of the excavations in rural settlement sites, conducted as part of the SARCP program, has been the very...
Sep 1, 20215 min read
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Approaches to the Prehistory of the Sigiriya-Dambulla Region
Gamini Adikari When compared with prehistoric research undertaken so far, there is some special significance in this study, in that it is...
Aug 31, 202113 min read
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FURTHERSTUDIES IN THE SETLEMENT ARCHAEOLOGYOF THESIGIRIYA-DAMBULLAREGION
Editors Senake Bandaranayake Mats Mogren Associate Editors Eva Myrdal-Runebjer Seneviratne Epitawatte Amy de Silva Nilu Abeyaratne...
Aug 30, 20212 min read
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The System of Land and Domestic Measurement Used in Nagalavava
PRISHANTHA GUNAWARDANE Figure 19.1 A Laha used for measuring dry grains. Nagalavava Village. Photo: Prishantha Gunawardane. The system of...
Aug 28, 202112 min read
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Dwelling and Household: Activity Areas, Tools and Auxiliary Devices
EVA MYRDAL-RUNEBJER, DAMAYANTHI GUNAWARDENA, SUDARSHANI FERNANDO* * Damayanthi Gunawardena was responsible for the study of rural...
Aug 27, 202155 min read
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Hunting, Trapping, Catching and Fishing
Eva Myrdal-Runebjer and Anura Yasapala This presentation has two aims. One is simply to present the traditional hunting, trapping,...
Aug 26, 202140 min read
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Food Procurement: Labour Processes and Environmental Setting
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,...
Aug 23, 202153 min read
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Premodern Sigiriya Region an Ethno-archaeological Perspective
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...
Aug 23, 202125 min read
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Epigraphy of the Sigiriya-Dambulla Region
RAJ SOMADEVA INTRODUCTION Scattered in the 446.6 square miles which form the study area (Bandaranayake 1990:14) lie nearly 300 lithic...
Aug 17, 202144 min read
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The Archaeology of Irrigated Agriculture. A Case Study ofVavalavava - Sigiri Mahavava Irrigation Sys
EVA MYRDAL-RUNEBJER INTRODUCTION The present study is an archaeological case study of an aban doned pre-modem irrigation system in...
Aug 16, 202126 min read
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The Eastern Precinct of the Sigiriya ComplexPRIYANTHA KARUNARATNE
Studies of Sigiriya have in the main concentrated on the western sector of the royal city complex. The Water Gardens, summer palaces,...
Aug 16, 202121 min read
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New Information on Mapagala
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...
Aug 15, 202135 min read
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A Brief Report of the Excavation at Ibbankatuva, a Proto and Early Historic Settlement Site.
PRIYANTHA KARUNARATNE This is a report of the excavation carried out at Ibbankatuva, in Dambulla, situated within the Matale district....
Aug 14, 20216 min read
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SIGIRIYA city , palace , gardens monasteries, paintings
Senake Bandaranayake CONTENTS Plan of Sigiriya 6 Sigiriya - World Heritage city 9 History 10 Historical periods 12 The Sigiriya complex...
Aug 8, 202148 min read
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Excavations at Tammannagala
RAJ SOMADEVA AND MANJULA KASTHURISINGHE Tammannagala site is situated about 1km west of Sigiriya rock, within the Sigiri Oya basin. This...
Aug 7, 202114 min read
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