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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


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


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


Sigiriya
Senarath Dissanayaka Location ‘ Sigiriya rock is reached traversing 8km to the left from the Inamaluwa Junction on the Dambulla...
Aug 3, 202125 min read


The Archaeology ofTalkote
MATS MOGREN Settlement patterns The concept of settlement patterns, when encountered in the reality of field research, is one of the...
Aug 2, 202138 min read


An Early Iron Production Site with a Highly Developed Technology
Dehigaha-ala-kanda (KO. 14) at Alakolavava: An Early Iron Production Site with a Highly Developed Technology SVANTE FORENIUS AND ROSE...
Jul 29, 202116 min read


Excavations at the Sigiri-Potana Cave Complex: A Preliminary Account
GAMINI ADIKARI In the field season of 1990, the PGIAR excavation and ex ploration team visited a cluster of caves at Potana, which...
Jul 29, 20213 min read


Appendix II: 14 C-dating
Appendix II: 14C-datings In the Settlement Archaeological Research and Collaboration Project (SARCP) a considerable part of the budget...
Jul 28, 20214 min read


Objectives, Methods, Constraints and
Perspectives MATS MOGREN The general objectives for the Settlement Archaeology Program for the Sigiriya-Dambulla region were outlined in...
Jul 27, 202141 min read


Excavations at Aligala Prehistoric Site
Priyantha Karunaratne and Gamini Adikari Deraniyagala, the foremost authority on the prehistory of Sri Lanka, has done most of his...
Jul 24, 202118 min read


ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE PREHISTORIC PERIOD
Priyantha Karunaratne and Gamini Adikari Deraniyagala, the foremost authority on the prehistory of Sri Lanka, has done most of his...
Jul 24, 202118 min read


Traversing an Archaeological Landscape
Seven years ago, we began what we described as the study of the settlement archaeology and palaeoenvironment of a diagnostic micro-region...
Jul 23, 202114 min read
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