CONTENTS: Foreword, Preface, 1. Introduction: Facets of South Asian Past from Pluralistic Perspectives-V Selvakumar, S K Aruni and Hemant Dave, 2. Celt Grinding Sites in Raichur: The Economy of Dolerite Tool Production in Southern Neolithic Culture-R Arjun, 3. Rise of Early Urban Centres in Karnataka: an Appraisal-S K Aruni, 4. Re-thinking Heritage: Creating a New Sense of the Past?-Bishnupriya Basak, 5. Old World links of Ancient Tamizhakam as revealed through Pattanam Archaeological Evidence-P J Cherian, 6. Funerary Practices through the Ages in Tamil Nadu: A Study of Texts, Traditions and Burials-S B Darsana, 7. Apropos of Ayodhya-Hemant Dave, 8. Conceptualising ‘Rural’: Linkages, Settlement Hierarchy and Urbanization in the Early Medieval Shorapur-Doab-Suchi Dayal, 9. Urbanization in Coastal West Bengal-Kaushik Gangopadhyay, 10. The Curation of a National Archaeological Heritage: With Notes from the National Museum, New Delhi-Sudeshna Guha, 11. Looking beyond the Stone Structures of the Iron Age: Early Historic Burials-Smirti Haricharan, 12. Rethinking Northeast Indian Prehistory: Reappraisal to an Old Problem-Tiatoshi Jamir, Marco Mitri and Tilok Thakuria, 13. Archaeological Perceptions and Practices: Viewing a Harappan Object Over Time-Jaya Menon, 14. Problems and Prospects of Management of Prehistoric Sites in India with a Focus on Odisha-Debasis Kumar Mondal and Ranjana Ray. 15. Taking the Middle Path: Understanding the ‘Early’ Middle Palaeolithic of South Asia and Its Relationship with the Preceding Late Acheulean-Yezad Pardiwalla and Parth R Chauhan, 16. ‘Etched’, ‘Bleached’ or ‘Decorated’ Carnelian Beads? A Reassessment of the Terminology of a Special Category of Agate-Carnelian Beads from the Harappan Civilization-V N Prabhakar, 17. Rock Paintings at Wyndham Falls, Mirzapur Vindhyas, Uttar Pradesh-Ajay Pratap, Anand P Pathak, Rajeev Pratap, Nawal Kumar and Ruman Banerjee, 18. Molars of Tropical Rainforests: Lingual-Labial Axis of Cercopithecidae Molars as an Index of Ecologies, Dietary Patterns, and Species Overlap during Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene in Sri Lanka-Kalangi Rodrigo and Wijerathne Bohingamuwa, 19. Issues in the Meaning and Identification of Archaeological Cultures-V Selvakumar, 20. Early Historic Terracotta of West Bengal: An Overview-Gautam Sengupta, 21. Shifting Time Frames: From Deep History to Archaeology of the Contemporary Past-Supriya Varma, 22. Archaeological Investigations in the Lower Tungabhadra Region of Andhra Pradesh-P C Venkatasubbaiah.