South Asia has a history of drawing its “identity consciousness” from the rich cultural heritage found in classical literary texts and inscriptions, sculptural art, architecture, and from its …
… This paper considers why and how Anuradhapura came to be recreated in this way. … But in its third phase Anuradhapura is divided into two: to create a Sacred City at Anuradhapura, the …
The objective of this chapter is to describe an ancient community of Sri Lanka, which developed a sophisticated hydraulic civilization based on a dry-zone agricultural system utilizing a …
… the data from Anuradhapura, not only to understand better the actual form and character of these monuments but also to test the methodology which our analysis of the Anuradhapura …
… The city of Anuradhapura, capital of Sri Lanka from the fifth … the excavations at trench Anuradhapura Salgaha Watta 2 (… objects from afar, Anuradhapura played an important role in co…
N presenting this enlarged second edition, I am glad that I have realised my hope as expressed in November, 1904, in the preface to my first attempt of" The Sacred City of …
… The record provided by the Anuradhapura sequence makes it … of Anuradhapura's cultural and trading links with other parts of the ancient world. In sum, the excavations at Anuradhapura …
… to the development of modern Anuradhapura, an area that has … examines the making of Anuradhapura as a prime Sinhala-… The Sinhala-Buddhist claim to Anuradhapura was part of the …
… of many of the exotic materials identified in the Citadel of Anuradhapura. We surveyed the first 5 km section of river from the city of Anuradhapura downstream during our pilot field …
www.torrossa.com/it/resources/an/4923746This book represents the publication of my doctoral thesis and while I have edited, nipped and tucked, and expanded some sections, I have resisted the urge to extensively rewrite. …