Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sanghralaya is organising a special lecture under the series ‘Public Interest lecture series’ titled ‘Origin of Agriculture in the Southern Neolithic of the Indian Subcontinent’ by Prof Ravi Korisettar, DC Pavate Professor of Art and Archaeology, Karnatak University, Dharwad on Tuesday.
Prof Ravi Korisettar, a renowned name in field of Archeology is currently working as Professor in Department of History and Archeology, Karnataka University Dharwad. A well trained excavator and explorator of archeological sites Prof Settar has guided over a dozen PhD Scholars and have been actively involved in university administration as also chaired a number of academic committees at various universities and other academic organisations.
Prof Settar has successfully held the editorship of Journal like Man and Environment (1989- 2001), Journal of Karnataka University of Social Sciences (2007 onwards) etc.
He has received fellowships and recognition form University of Cambridge, UK, Smithsonion Institution, Washington DC USA etc. He has participated in various National and International academic events all over the world. He has written around 11 books and over 75 research articles and papers in prestigious National and International Journals.
In his lecture Prof. Korisettar will throw light on the new discoveries which reveal the origin of agriculture in Indian subcontinent. According to Prof. Korisettar although the last one and hart decade has witnessed intense archaeo-botanical research at a number of Neolithic sites across the subcontinent delineation of transition from foraging to farming has yet remained elusive, owing to the lack of regional sequences.
However, the archaeological and archaeo-botanical evidences indicate chronological priority of domestication over the emergence of sedentism or sedentary village settlements in various provinces of Indian subcontinent. In other words native food crops were adopted prior to the emergence of village settlements. This inference is based on the fact that the distinctive Neolithic provinces across the subcontinent reveal early adoption of food plants that are native to these provinces.
The lecture will be held on Tuesday, 10th December, 2013 at 3:30 pm in Avritti Bhawan- the lake side building of Museum. The entry to the lecture is free and open for all.