How we buried our dead in ancient Lanka
Prof. Raj Somadeva will deliver the monthly lecture of the National Trust on ‘Some evidence of proto-historic burial practice in Sri Lanka’ at the HNB Auditorium, 22nd Floor, HNB Towers, 479 T.B. Jayah Mawatha, Colombo 10 at 6.30 p.m. on Thursday, October 25.
Evidence of clay canoe burials was unearthed recently and excavations have revealed that the tradition prevailed in the second millennium BCE. The canoes were used to cremate the deceased and intern the corporeal remains together with prehistoric stone implements, earthenware vessels etc. suggesting the beginning of a new cultural realm unknown in the history of Sri Lanka.
Prof. Raj Somadeva joined the Post Graduate Institute of Archaeology in 1989 as a lecturer and received his PHD for Archaeology from the Uppsala University in Sweden in 2006.
He won the Charles Wallace Research Fellowship of the Institute of Archaeology of the University of London in 2005. He obtained his BA and MPhil in Archaeology from the University of Kelaniya.
The lecture is open to National Trust members and the public.
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