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Chapter 7
Comparative study of the other sites
Number of sites, belonging to the history period, has been studied. A few of them are in Gujarat, some in Maharashtra and some in South India.
While working on this research I studied the work done at these sites, and tried to compare my finds with the artifacts found from there. In this chapter we will briefly go through finds from these sites and compare them with the antiquities found from Nani Rayan. The sites in Gujarat: 1 Devnimori (Excavation conducted from 1960 to 1963) 2 Somnath (Excavation conducted in 1956)
Shamalaji (Excavation conducted in 1962)
Nagara (Excavation conducted in 1963) 5 The fields around the Buddhist caves of Siot. The sites in Maharashtra:
Nasik
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Paithan
Nevasa Ter Kondapur
Kolhapur The sites in Pondichery & Tamilnadu: Site of Arikamedu (On the Coromandel Coast near Pondichery) The Coastal Sites in Tamil Nadu.
Arikamedu, on the coromandel coast near Pondichery, is the Indian site at which the largest concentration of Mediterranean amphorae has so far been found The pioneering work by Sir Mortimer Wheeler and his Indian colleagues in 1945, The French Excavations in 1943 1944 and 1947 and recently Indian American excavations which commenced in 1989-1990 have found ample evidence that Arikmedu was just one of the several centers importing Mediterranean products along the south east coast of India, 108 The comparable finds are of roullated ware and Roman amphorae. Sites in Gujarat: Dev Ni Mori:
The excavations and explorations at Dev Ni Mori had shown that this valley was occupied from the prehistoric period and the occupation continued with occasional break ups to the present 109
108 Elizabeth L. Will. The Mediterranean shipping amphorae from Arikamedu 109 A Report on Excavation at Dev Ni Mori by Dr. R.N.Mehta and Dr.S.N.Chaudhari published by Dept of
archeology M.S Uni Vadodara
Comparative study of the other sites
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