Category: Articles

Aug 19
Reading of the contemporary social consciousness through the shipwreck Earl of Shaftsbury*

By A.M.A.Dayananda forex trading software * This article was first published in proceedings of ASIA-PACIFIC REGIONAL CONFERENCE ON UNDERWATER CULTURAL HERITAGE, 2011, Manila Abstract The shipwreck Earl of Shaftsbury is buried on the southern coast of Sri Lanka very close to a frequented tourist destination. It was run aground hitting on a rock at Akurala […]

Nov 15
Underwater Archaeology Short Course 2011

Underwater Archaeology Course 2011 Maritime Archaeology Unit – Central Cultural Fund – Galle – Sri Lanka 05th – 09th DECEMBER 2011 buy cheapest viagra online aeology-short-course-2011/attachment/archaeology-poster/” rel=”attachment wp-att-1531″> The Maritime Archaeology Unit (MAU) of Sri Lanka is the only authorized institute that engaged in underwater archaeological fieldwork. Under this program (with the Archaeology.lk Group) we […]

Nov 01
Sri Lanka Maritime Archaeological Unit – Report on the Avondster Project 2001 – 2002

INTRODUCTION http://www.panonbelievers.org   Avondster Project Report 2011 Sri Lanka is strategically located between Arabia and East Asia, at a natural crossroads of navigational routes, and has been a centre of trade and cultural exchange since ancient times. Sri Lankaʼs seafaring history, and the archaeological riches of her land sites, suggests that her underwater sites may […]

Oct 15
The Archaeological Survey in Neelagiri seya Area in Lahugala of Ampara District – Interim Report

  real viagra online Front Page Image essay services Raj Somadeva PhD Postgraduate Institute of Archaeology Introduction An Archaeological Survey in Neelagiri seya Areawas conducted by the Postgraduate Institute of Archaeology in the area around Nilgiri stupa- a colossal ruined stupa- situated in the woods of the Lahugala Wildlife sanctuary of the Ampara District of […]

Apr 25
Jethawanaramaya Complex as it looked in 9th Century AD

See the Jethawanaramaya Complex as it looked in 9th Century AD and fly down to see famous buildings and monuments in 3D. This is a project by the Digital Committee of the Royal Asiatic Society – Sri Lanka. Please send your comments to following email address. You can join our team as a volunteer to […]

Dec 19
The Library of the Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka goes online…

The Library of the Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka is one of the oldest libraries in the Island having been established in 1845. As such it contains some of the rarest and oldest books available on the Island about its peoples’ – their history, geography, cultures, languages, religions and ways of life. These are […]

Nov 09
A new book – Prehistoric Sri Lanka: Late Pleistocene rockshelters and the open-air site – Dr. Nimal Perera

A new book on Prehistoric Sri Lanka by Dr. Nimal Perera(Deputy Director-General, Department of Archaeology, Sri Lanka) has been published by the British Archaeology Reports. This is the major publication on Sri Lanka Prehistory after the Dr. Siran Deraniyagala’s book. It is available at the Postgraduate Institute of Archaeology Library(407, Bauddhaloka Mawatha, Colombo 07,) and […]

Oct 19
Speleothems in Gneissic Caves of Sri Lanka

Weliange W.S1 & Pathmakumara Jayasingha2 Speleothems are mineral deposits found in caves and karsts, which are classified and named, based on the type of formation, mineral constituents and morphology. Limestone caves are famous since its speleothems are made up of various carbonate compounds. Most of the caves of Sri Lanka have been formed in high […]

Oct 16
Aboriginal Ecology; finding missing link between prehistoric man and the modern man

become man”s heart     Abstract Veddah is the last remaining group of people in Sri Lanka who are believed to be the descendents of the prehistoric man. Therefore an evolutionary point of view Veddah could be the true survival of the fittest present in Sri Lanka. A new project is launched under the auspicious […]

Sep 25
Sinhalese Influence on Laos: From its Beginning to Consolidation – Part II – The regional context

  Asia Map – The Sri Lanka Regional Context Hema Goonatilake PhD (Lond) Visiting Professor, Royal University of Phnom Penh, Cambodia Published in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka, New Series, Vol. LIII, 2008 The development of Sinhalese-Lao relations is tied to Sinhalese relations with the broad South-east Asian region, immediately […]