The two day long programme dedicated to Robert Bruce Foote at Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya celebrating the 150th year of discovery of first Palaeolithic tool found in India concluded on Sunday with lecture by Emeritus Professor K Paddayya.
The programme was started with workshop on Prehistoric tools making, Rock art and mock trench organised by Shanti Pappu, Professor, Decaan College, Pune and Kumar Akhilesh (Director of Sharma Centre for Heritage Education.
later an exhibition titled “Foote-Prints” was inaugurated at Rockart Centre, IGRMS by SB Ota (Director, IGRMS), KK Chakravarty, (IAS, Chairman, lalit Kala Akademi New Delhi), Professor K Paddayya, renowned archaeologist Professor KC Malhotra.
In his lecture Professor K Paddayya, former director, Deccan College Pune delivered a lecture titled as “Prelude to History: The Romance of the discovery of India’s Prehistoric Past”, where he gave examples of some non-archaeologists to made significant contribution in the field of archaeology. The museum lecture popular lecture was chaired by KK Chakravarty, IAS, Chairman, lalit Kala Akademi New Delhi and former director of Manav Sangrahalaya.
On this occasion archeologists, geologists, scientists, research scholars and students from institutions were present along with anthropol ogists of IGRMS.