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Significance of Radiocarbon AMS Chronology of Bandhavgarh National Park And Tiger Reserve From an Archaeological Perspective


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1 The Centre for Interdisciplinary Archaeological Research and Department of History, Ashoka University, Sonepat 131 029, India
2 Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow 226 007, India
3 Agharkar Research Institute, G.G. Agharkar Road, Pune 411 004, India, India

The present communication indicates the timeline-based on accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) dates – that has emerged from a sediment core originating in the Bandhavgarh National Park and Tiger Reserve (Madhya Pradesh, India) and attempts to see if those dates broadly coincide with the changing historical signature as recorded in archaeological evidence in this tract. A comprehensive overview of vegetational and climatic changes in the forested tract of Bandhavgarh across time is under preparation, and the present study aims to report on the first scientific dates from the Bandhavgarh National Park and Tiger Reserve and the rich possibi­lities that open up when they are juxtaposed with its archaeology.

Keywords

Archaeology, AMS dates, Bandhavgarh, forests.
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Nayanjot Lahiri
The Centre for Interdisciplinary Archaeological Research and Department of History, Ashoka University, Sonepat 131 029, India
Binita Phartiyal
Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow 226 007, India
Karthick Balasubramanian
Agharkar Research Institute, G.G. Agharkar Road, Pune 411 004, India, India

Abstract


The present communication indicates the timeline-based on accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) dates – that has emerged from a sediment core originating in the Bandhavgarh National Park and Tiger Reserve (Madhya Pradesh, India) and attempts to see if those dates broadly coincide with the changing historical signature as recorded in archaeological evidence in this tract. A comprehensive overview of vegetational and climatic changes in the forested tract of Bandhavgarh across time is under preparation, and the present study aims to report on the first scientific dates from the Bandhavgarh National Park and Tiger Reserve and the rich possibi­lities that open up when they are juxtaposed with its archaeology.

Keywords


Archaeology, AMS dates, Bandhavgarh, forests.



DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv127%2Fi1%2F98-101