INDIAN ARCHAEOLOGY

 

The Uren Story: Ascent of Human Society

Illustrated lecture by Dr. Goutami Bhattacharya, Deputy Superintending Archaeologist (Excavation Branch IV), Archaeological Survey of India, Bhubaneswar

Chair: Shri B.M. Pande

 

Two seasons of excavations (2016-18) at Uren, district Lakhisarai, Bihar by the Archaeological Survey of India, Excavation Branch III, Patna has revealed a complete unbroken sequence of cultures starting with the proto-historic village culture and ending with a flourishing Buddhist establishment during the Pala period. The site has brought to light, evidence of an ancient habitation that traversed the entire journey of human settlement from an incipient village that quickly learnt to gainfully exploit its immediate surroundings and developed first as an urban mercantile settlement and finally transformed as a famed religious centre