K Paddayya
Biographic Data
| ID | 256068 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K Paddayya |
| GIVEN NAMES | K |
| FAMILY NAME | Paddayya |
| SIGNATURE | PADDAYYA K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Deccan College Post Graduate and Research Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 525 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Grinding stones from the neolithic “Ashmound” site of Budihal, India
The Acheulian quarry at Isampur, Lower Deccan, India
The Hunsgi and Baichbal valleys of southern India have been the subject of prolonged archaeological investigations resulting in the recognition of an elaborate sequence of Stone Age cultures. The two valleys have preserved a dense concentration of Acheulian sites. One of the most remarkable discoveries in recent years has been the identification of an Acheulian quarry at Isampur. Basic information about the locational setting and geoarchaeologica…
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru: His Other Side
A quasi-official campaign is currently afoot in India to denigrate Jawaharlal Nehru, belittling his role in the freedom struggle and in the shaping of India, post-1947. It is, therefore, necessary for us to go to the record, especially Nehru’s own writings. He represented a brilliant combination of a profoundly sympathetic appraisal of the past wisdom of India with a close relationship with India’s poorest of the poor. He did so with a full commi…
A Chapter in the History of Indian Social Thought: Irawati Karve’s Contributions as Public Intellectual
This article seeks to revisit the contributions of Professor Irawati Karve, one of the foremost anthropologists of twentieth-century India. In particular, it highlights her work as a public intellectual and draws attention to her views on various issues of general interest such as concept of culture and its origins and diversity, characters in the epics Mahabharata and Ramayana, language policy, and ban on beef eating
New Archaeology, Development of
Economic transactions in our deep past
The much longer period of mankind’s past is customarily called ‘prehistory’, as if before writing began, there could be no ‘history’. It is, however, true that during what we may call ‘deep past’, there were features in the organisation of human societies that were different from what was to be found when towns arose and civilisations came to be established. This article examines how in the realm of exchange and what goes today by the name of com…
Writing Indian prehistory and history and the societal dimension
In India there is a lamentable absence of planned historical writing, and in such writing as there is, a social perspective, in which the past’s links with the present are grasped, is often lacking. The ‘People’s History of India’ represents a welcome step; but it too makes substantive concessions to conventional archaeology and history. The titles Prehistory and Indus Civilization themselves are indicative of such concessions. Societies with mod…
The Palaeolithic of South Asia
It is remarkable that investigations into the South Asian Palaeolithic commenced close on the heels of the birth of prehistory in Europe in the third quarter of the 19th century. The initiative for these investigations was taken single-handedly by Robert Bruce Foote of the Geological Survey of India; and even before the close of the century, Foote’s findings in South India had attracted considerable attention in the European scientific circles. A…
Stone tool experiments and reduction methods at the Acheulean site of Isampur Quarry, India
What better way to understand how to make a handaxe or cleaver than getting into an Acheulean quarry and doing it yourself. The authors experimented at Isampur Quarry in India, finding that handaxes were best produced by reducing a slab to shape, while cleavers were best made by striking large flakes. There was a good correspondence with the ancient implements, and the authors deduced that Acheulean hominins were learning and transmitting standar…
The Acheulean of peninsular India with special reference to the Hungsi and Baichbal valleys of the lower Deccan
Excavation of an Acheulian workshop at Isampur, Karnataka (India)
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The First Acheulian Quarry in India: Stone Tool Manufacture, Biface Morphology, and Behaviors
An Acheulian quarry was recently identified in the Hunsgi Valley, India. An Acheulian quarry has never been described before on the Indian subcontinent, and this is a site type that has rarely been investigated anywhere in the Old World. The Isampur quarry is at a siliceous limestone bedrock source. Surface survey and test excavations have revealed Acheulian assemblages, including a high density of chipped stone waste (i.e., cores, flakes, chunks…
Evidence of Neolithic Cattle-Penning at Budihal, Gulbarga District, Karnataka
Les recherches de l'auteur et les fouilles qu'il a entreprises sur le site neolithique de Budihal en 1990 et 1991 y ont revele l'existence de plusieurs zones d'activites humaines differenciees, tels un atelier de taille de lames en chert, un atelier de polissage et d'affutage de haches en pierre et autres outils, un site de boucherie a usage de la communaute, un tertre de cendres occupant une place plus ou moins centrale dans le site, ainsi que d…
The New Archaeology and Aftermath. A View from outside the Anglo-American World
On the Earliest Use of Photography as a Documentation Procedure in Indian Ethnology
Recent Advances in Indian Archaeology: Proceedings of the Seminar Held in Poona in 1983
The Acheulian Culture of the Hungsi Valley (Peninsular India): A Settlement System Perspective
The Identification of Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherer Aggregation Sites: The Case of Altamira [and Comments and Reply]
It is a common assumption that an aggregation-and-dispersion pattern characterizes most of the world's hunter-gatherers, both past and present. A clarification of the pattern is put forth in support of the view that there is more to it than factors of subsistence ecology. Because there are many variants of hunter-gatherer aggregations, in terms of both activities and the factors that promote and effect them, it is clear that there will also be va…
Stone Tools, Toolkits, and Human Behavior in Prehistory [and Comments and Reply]
Stone artefacts are usually privileged witnesses, and often the sole preserved witnesses, of prehistoric man and his activities. The study of artefacts is ordinarily restricted to typology, i.e., description, classification, and comparison of these artefacts clustered into assemblages with a view to defining industries and, hence, prehistoric cultures. This approach is somewhat limited, as it registers differences or resemblances between the asse…
On Evidence for Nonutilitarian Activities in Lower Palaeolithic Man
A History of Flint-Knapping Experimentation, 1838-1976 [and Comments and Reply]
The earliest experiments were conducted to discover how to produce chipped stone tools using nonmetallic knapping tools. By 1880, the major perceived problems were solved: ancient stone tools were made by direct stone percussion, later tools might be finished by pressure flaking with an antler tine, and flakes, since they could be duplicated by natural forces, should be accepted as man-made only when found in quantity and made to a pattern. In th…
New research designs and field techniques in the palaeolithic archaeology of India
The paper gives a short review of the growth of Indian Palaeolithic archaeology, pointing out the limitations of studying secondary sites associated with alluvial sediments. Attention is then drawn to the varied information that could be expected from primary sites for understanding the behavioural patterns of Stone Age societies. The usefulness of the new approach and the various field techniques and methods it entails is illustrated with refere…
An Acheulian occupation site at Hunsgi, Peninsular India: A summary of the results of two seasons of excavation (1975-6)
Several Acheulian sites have been discovered recently in the vicinity of Hunsgi, North Karnataka, and one of them (Hunsgi Locality V) appears to be an occupation site in primary context. Such finds are still rare in the Indian sub‐continent. A preliminary report is given, based on the excavation so far carried out. The stratigraphy and lithology of the Acheulian floor are described. The occupation area, of some 60 square metres, was bounded on tw…
The Value-Base of Social Anthropology: The Context of India in Particular [and Comments and Reply]
In keeping with its present state of theoretical and methodological development and the ever accumulating stock of empirical information, the role of social anthropology today is not merely to describe or to explain a phenomenon (or a set of phenomena). Proceedings sequentially by answering the three questions "What is it?", "How is it?", and "Why is it?", social anthropology should now be in a position to answer the fourth fundamental question i…
Cup-Marks in the Shorapur Doab (South India)
The Identification of Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherer Aggregation Sites: The Case of Altamira [and Comments and Reply]
It is a common assumption that an aggregation-and-dispersion pattern characterizes most of the world's hunter-gatherers, both past and present. A clarification of the pattern is put forth in support of the view that there is more to it than factors of subsistence ecology. Because there are many variants of hunter-gatherer aggregations, in terms of both activities and the factors that promote and effect them, it is clear that there will also be va…
Stone Tools, Toolkits, and Human Behavior in Prehistory [and Comments and Reply]
Stone artefacts are usually privileged witnesses, and often the sole preserved witnesses, of prehistoric man and his activities. The study of artefacts is ordinarily restricted to typology, i.e., description, classification, and comparison of these artefacts clustered into assemblages with a view to defining industries and, hence, prehistoric cultures. This approach is somewhat limited, as it registers differences or resemblances between the asse…
The First Acheulian Quarry in India: Stone Tool Manufacture, Biface Morphology, and Behaviors
An Acheulian quarry was recently identified in the Hunsgi Valley, India. An Acheulian quarry has never been described before on the Indian subcontinent, and this is a site type that has rarely been investigated anywhere in the Old World. The Isampur quarry is at a siliceous limestone bedrock source. Surface survey and test excavations have revealed Acheulian assemblages, including a high density of chipped stone waste (i.e., cores, flakes, chunks…
A History of Flint-Knapping Experimentation, 1838-1976 [and Comments and Reply]
The earliest experiments were conducted to discover how to produce chipped stone tools using nonmetallic knapping tools. By 1880, the major perceived problems were solved: ancient stone tools were made by direct stone percussion, later tools might be finished by pressure flaking with an antler tine, and flakes, since they could be duplicated by natural forces, should be accepted as man-made only when found in quantity and made to a pattern. In th…
Stone tool experiments and reduction methods at the Acheulean site of Isampur Quarry, India
What better way to understand how to make a handaxe or cleaver than getting into an Acheulean quarry and doing it yourself. The authors experimented at Isampur Quarry in India, finding that handaxes were best produced by reducing a slab to shape, while cleavers were best made by striking large flakes. There was a good correspondence with the ancient implements, and the authors deduced that Acheulean hominins were learning and transmitting standar…
Evidence of Neolithic Cattle-Penning at Budihal, Gulbarga District, Karnataka
Les recherches de l'auteur et les fouilles qu'il a entreprises sur le site neolithique de Budihal en 1990 et 1991 y ont revele l'existence de plusieurs zones d'activites humaines differenciees, tels un atelier de taille de lames en chert, un atelier de polissage et d'affutage de haches en pierre et autres outils, un site de boucherie a usage de la communaute, un tertre de cendres occupant une place plus ou moins centrale dans le site, ainsi que d…
An Acheulian occupation site at Hunsgi, Peninsular India: A summary of the results of two seasons of excavation (1975-6)
Several Acheulian sites have been discovered recently in the vicinity of Hunsgi, North Karnataka, and one of them (Hunsgi Locality V) appears to be an occupation site in primary context. Such finds are still rare in the Indian sub‐continent. A preliminary report is given, based on the excavation so far carried out. The stratigraphy and lithology of the Acheulian floor are described. The occupation area, of some 60 square metres, was bounded on tw…
Excavation of an Acheulian Site at Hunsgi, South India
The New Archaeology and Aftermath. A View from outside the Anglo-American World
Excavation of an Acheulian workshop at Isampur, Karnataka (India)
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Value-Base of Social Anthropology: The Context of India in Particular [and Comments and Reply]
In keeping with its present state of theoretical and methodological development and the ever accumulating stock of empirical information, the role of social anthropology today is not merely to describe or to explain a phenomenon (or a set of phenomena). Proceedings sequentially by answering the three questions "What is it?", "How is it?", and "Why is it?", social anthropology should now be in a position to answer the fourth fundamental question i…
Cup-Marks in the Shorapur Doab (South India)
On the Social Responsibilities Symposium
On the Form and Function of Perforated Pottery of the Deccan Neolithic Culture
On Evidence for Nonutilitarian Activities in Lower Palaeolithic Man
New research designs and field techniques in the palaeolithic archaeology of India
The paper gives a short review of the growth of Indian Palaeolithic archaeology, pointing out the limitations of studying secondary sites associated with alluvial sediments. Attention is then drawn to the varied information that could be expected from primary sites for understanding the behavioural patterns of Stone Age societies. The usefulness of the new approach and the various field techniques and methods it entails is illustrated with refere…
On the Form and Function of Perforated Pottery of the Deccan Neolithic Culture
On the Social Responsibilities Symposium
The Value-Base of Social Anthropology: The Context of India in Particular [and Comments and Reply]
In keeping with its present state of theoretical and methodological development and the ever accumulating stock of empirical information, the role of social anthropology today is not merely to describe or to explain a phenomenon (or a set of phenomena). Proceedings sequentially by answering the three questions "What is it?", "How is it?", and "Why is it?", social anthropology should now be in a position to answer the fourth fundamental question i…
Cup-Marks in the Shorapur Doab (South India)
Excavation of an Acheulian Site at Hunsgi, South India
An Acheulian occupation site at Hunsgi, Peninsular India: A summary of the results of two seasons of excavation (1975-6)
Several Acheulian sites have been discovered recently in the vicinity of Hunsgi, North Karnataka, and one of them (Hunsgi Locality V) appears to be an occupation site in primary context. Such finds are still rare in the Indian sub‐continent. A preliminary report is given, based on the excavation so far carried out. The stratigraphy and lithology of the Acheulian floor are described. The occupation area, of some 60 square metres, was bounded on tw…
A History of Flint-Knapping Experimentation, 1838-1976 [and Comments and Reply]
The earliest experiments were conducted to discover how to produce chipped stone tools using nonmetallic knapping tools. By 1880, the major perceived problems were solved: ancient stone tools were made by direct stone percussion, later tools might be finished by pressure flaking with an antler tine, and flakes, since they could be duplicated by natural forces, should be accepted as man-made only when found in quantity and made to a pattern. In th…
New research designs and field techniques in the palaeolithic archaeology of India
The paper gives a short review of the growth of Indian Palaeolithic archaeology, pointing out the limitations of studying secondary sites associated with alluvial sediments. Attention is then drawn to the varied information that could be expected from primary sites for understanding the behavioural patterns of Stone Age societies. The usefulness of the new approach and the various field techniques and methods it entails is illustrated with refere…
Stone Tools, Toolkits, and Human Behavior in Prehistory [and Comments and Reply]
Stone artefacts are usually privileged witnesses, and often the sole preserved witnesses, of prehistoric man and his activities. The study of artefacts is ordinarily restricted to typology, i.e., description, classification, and comparison of these artefacts clustered into assemblages with a view to defining industries and, hence, prehistoric cultures. This approach is somewhat limited, as it registers differences or resemblances between the asse…
On Evidence for Nonutilitarian Activities in Lower Palaeolithic Man
The Identification of Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherer Aggregation Sites: The Case of Altamira [and Comments and Reply]
It is a common assumption that an aggregation-and-dispersion pattern characterizes most of the world's hunter-gatherers, both past and present. A clarification of the pattern is put forth in support of the view that there is more to it than factors of subsistence ecology. Because there are many variants of hunter-gatherer aggregations, in terms of both activities and the factors that promote and effect them, it is clear that there will also be va…
The Acheulian Culture of the Hungsi Valley (Peninsular India): A Settlement System Perspective
Recent Advances in Indian Archaeology: Proceedings of the Seminar Held in Poona in 1983
On the Earliest Use of Photography as a Documentation Procedure in Indian Ethnology
The New Archaeology and Aftermath. A View from outside the Anglo-American World
Evidence of Neolithic Cattle-Penning at Budihal, Gulbarga District, Karnataka
Les recherches de l'auteur et les fouilles qu'il a entreprises sur le site neolithique de Budihal en 1990 et 1991 y ont revele l'existence de plusieurs zones d'activites humaines differenciees, tels un atelier de taille de lames en chert, un atelier de polissage et d'affutage de haches en pierre et autres outils, un site de boucherie a usage de la communaute, un tertre de cendres occupant une place plus ou moins centrale dans le site, ainsi que d…
The First Acheulian Quarry in India: Stone Tool Manufacture, Biface Morphology, and Behaviors
An Acheulian quarry was recently identified in the Hunsgi Valley, India. An Acheulian quarry has never been described before on the Indian subcontinent, and this is a site type that has rarely been investigated anywhere in the Old World. The Isampur quarry is at a siliceous limestone bedrock source. Surface survey and test excavations have revealed Acheulian assemblages, including a high density of chipped stone waste (i.e., cores, flakes, chunks…
Excavation of an Acheulian workshop at Isampur, Karnataka (India)
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Acheulean of peninsular India with special reference to the Hungsi and Baichbal valleys of the lower Deccan
Stone tool experiments and reduction methods at the Acheulean site of Isampur Quarry, India
What better way to understand how to make a handaxe or cleaver than getting into an Acheulean quarry and doing it yourself. The authors experimented at Isampur Quarry in India, finding that handaxes were best produced by reducing a slab to shape, while cleavers were best made by striking large flakes. There was a good correspondence with the ancient implements, and the authors deduced that Acheulean hominins were learning and transmitting standar…
The Palaeolithic of South Asia
It is remarkable that investigations into the South Asian Palaeolithic commenced close on the heels of the birth of prehistory in Europe in the third quarter of the 19th century. The initiative for these investigations was taken single-handedly by Robert Bruce Foote of the Geological Survey of India; and even before the close of the century, Foote’s findings in South India had attracted considerable attention in the European scientific circles. A…
Writing Indian prehistory and history and the societal dimension
In India there is a lamentable absence of planned historical writing, and in such writing as there is, a social perspective, in which the past’s links with the present are grasped, is often lacking. The ‘People’s History of India’ represents a welcome step; but it too makes substantive concessions to conventional archaeology and history. The titles Prehistory and Indus Civilization themselves are indicative of such concessions. Societies with mod…
Economic transactions in our deep past
The much longer period of mankind’s past is customarily called ‘prehistory’, as if before writing began, there could be no ‘history’. It is, however, true that during what we may call ‘deep past’, there were features in the organisation of human societies that were different from what was to be found when towns arose and civilisations came to be established. This article examines how in the realm of exchange and what goes today by the name of com…
New Archaeology, Development of
A Chapter in the History of Indian Social Thought: Irawati Karve’s Contributions as Public Intellectual
This article seeks to revisit the contributions of Professor Irawati Karve, one of the foremost anthropologists of twentieth-century India. In particular, it highlights her work as a public intellectual and draws attention to her views on various issues of general interest such as concept of culture and its origins and diversity, characters in the epics Mahabharata and Ramayana, language policy, and ban on beef eating
Archaeology (20 works) · Geography (17 works) · History (15 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (12 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (10 works) · History (10 works) · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (7 works) · Geology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Art (6 works)