All about aquatic foragers who lived 4000 years ago
The National Trust of Sri Lanka’s monthly lecture on Thursday, September 29 at 6 p.m., will be on ‘The Discovery of Early Human Habitation (4000 BP): Southern Coast of Sri Lanka’. It will be delivered online by Samanti Kulatilake, PhD.
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meeting is :
https://zoom.us/j/92434423524?pwd=YTdTanlvVzJiUWZCRkZmeUxZeTVGdz09
(Meeting ID: 924 3442 3524,
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Historic archaeological treasures of Lanka subsumed under the term “heritage” are linked to the hydraulic civilization and agrarian populations. However, rare bioarchaeological remains associated with people who lived in the intersection between the prehistoric and historic periods of Lanka are also treasure troves of information.
The focus of this lecture is the aquatic foragers also known as hunter-gatherer-fisher people, who lived about 4000 years ago in the coastal regions of Lanka. Mini-athiliya is a mid-Holocene shell midden site in southern Sri Lanka. From the archaeological rescue operation conducted from 2007 to 2008 at Mini-athiliya, the bioarchaeological treasures that include human skeletal and dental remains, faunal remains, microlithic implements and information on the cultural and symbolic aspects of these people were recovered.
Samanti Kulatilake is an Associate Professor of Biological Anthropology at Mount Royal University, Canada. She holds a BA in Anthropology from the University of Manitoba and an MPhil and PhD in Biological Anthropology from the University of Cambridge, UK. Researching the evolutionary history of South Asians she has established herself as an international scholar in her field.
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