Technological behavior of the Late Pleistocene Human habitation at Rajagala Maha Lena rock shelter in Eastern Province of Sri Lanka

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suranga E.G.J. ◽  
Kapukotuwa K.M.A. ◽  
Ranasinghe G
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Eastern Province ◽  
Rock Shelter ◽  
Human Habitation

scholarly journals Phytolith Palaeoenvironments at Mumba Rock Shelter

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julio Mercader ◽  
Siobhán Clarke ◽  
Makarius Itambu ◽  
Abdallah Mohamed ◽  
Musa Mwitondi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
East Africa ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Principal Components ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
Later Stone Age ◽  
Rock Shelter ◽  
Shelter Site ◽  
Northern Tanzania ◽  
Plant Habitat

The rock shelter site of Mumba in northern Tanzania plays a pivotal role in the overall study of the late Pleistocene archaeology of East Africa with an emphasis on the Middle to Later Stone Age transition. We used phytolith analysis to reconstruct general plant habitat physiognomy around the site from the onset of the late Pleistocene to recent times, tallying 4246 individual phytoliths from 19 archaeological samples. Statistical analysis explored phytolith richness, diversity, dominance, and evenness, along with principal components to compare phytolith distributions over the site’s sequence with known plant habitats today. Generally, the phytolith record of Mumba signifies paleoenvironments with analogs in the Somalia – Masai bushland and grassland, as well as Zambezian woodlands.

scholarly journals Fruits of the forest: Human stable isotope ecology and rainforest adaptations in Late Pleistocene and Holocene (∼36 to 3 ka) Sri Lanka

2017 ◽  
Vol 106 ◽  
pp. 102-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Roberts ◽  
Nimal Perera ◽  
Oshan Wedage ◽  
Siran Deraniyagala ◽  
Jude Perera ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Stable Isotope ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Stable Isotope Ecology ◽  
Isotope Ecology

Microlithic occurrences associated with sediments dated to terminal Pleistocene-late Holocene in the central Narmada basin, Madhya Pradesh, India

2021 ◽  
pp. SP515-2020-216
Author(s):  
Nupur Tiwari ◽  
P. Morthekai ◽  
K. Krishnan ◽  
Parth R. Chauhan
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Late Holocene ◽  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
Central India ◽  
Madhya Pradesh ◽  
Doctoral Research ◽  
Terminal Pleistocene

AbstractThe earliest occurrence of microliths in South Asia dates back to the Late Pleistocene at Mehtakheri (45 ka) and Dhaba (48 ka) in Central India, Jwalapuram 9 in Southern India (38 ka), Kana and Mahadebbara in Northeastern India (42-25 ka) and Batadomba-Lena (35-36 ka) and Fa Hien Lena (48 ka) in Sri Lanka. Microlithic technology is distributed across the entire Indian Subcontinent and chronologically continues up to the Iron Age and Early Historic periods. This paper discusses new data acquired from the first author's doctoral research in the two districts of Madhya Pradesh (Hoshangabad and Sehore), which fall within the central part of the Narmada Basin in central India. We present here the preliminary dates from key areas of distribution to understand the geo-chronological contexts of microliths at Pilikarar, Morpani, and Gurla-Sukkarwada. Initial dates from these respective occurrences range between 12.5 ka and 2.3 ka.

A Good Place to Live: Plants and People at the Santa Elina Rock Shelter (Central Brazil) from Late Pleistocene to the Holocene

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 273-291
Author(s):  
Rita Scheel-Ybert ◽  
Caroline Bachelet
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Late Holocene ◽  
Vegetation Changes ◽  
Vegetation Types ◽  
Rock Shelter ◽  
Good Place ◽  
Central Brazil ◽  
Cultural Preference ◽  
Vegetation And Climate ◽  
Over Time

The Santa Elina rock shelter (Central Brazil) was recurrently occupied from the Late Pleistocene to the Late Holocene. We compare sets of previously published anthracological analyses with new data to reconstruct the landscape, vegetation, and climate over the several thousand years of occupation, providing information on firewood management from about 27,000 to about 1500 cal BP. Laboratory analyses followed standard anthracological procedures. We identified 34 botanical families and 84 genera in a sample of almost 5,000 charcoal pieces. The Leguminosae family dominates the assemblage, followed by Anacardiaceae, Bignoniaceae, Rubiaceae, Euphorbiaceae, and Sapotaceae. The area surrounding the shelter was forested throughout the studied period. The local landscape was formed, as it is today, by a mosaic of vegetation types that include forest formations and open cerrado. Some regional vegetation changes may have occurred over time. Our data corroborate the practice of opportunistic firewood gathering in all periods of site occupation, despite a possible cultural preference for some taxa. The very long occupation of Santa Elina may be due not only to its attractiveness as a rock shelter but also to the continuously forested vegetation around it. It was a good place to live.

scholarly journals Intimate partner violence in the post-war context: Women’s experiences and community leaders’ perceptions in the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka

PLoS ONE ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. e0174801 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sepali Guruge ◽  
Marilyn Ford-Gilboe ◽  
Colleen Varcoe ◽  
Vathsala Jayasuriya-Illesinghe ◽  
Mahesan Ganesan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Community Leaders ◽  
Eastern Province ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Post War

Sri Lanka in 2008: Waging War for Peace

Asian Survey ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nira Wickramasinghe
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Eastern Province ◽  
Security Forces ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
The North ◽  
High Inflation ◽  
The Government ◽  
Military Campaign ◽  
Government Security

The year 2008 saw a successful military campaign by government security forces against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the North. Elections to the Eastern Province resulted in a break away faction of the LTTE sharing power with the government. People continued to endure high inflation in the price of essential goods and services, and the country's human rights record remained dismal.

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