Conference Presentations by Anne Casile
by Nicolas Maughan, Kathleen Morrison, Erle C Ellis, Zsolt Pinke, Jean Vacher, Boris Vannière, Laura Popova, Elizabeth Kyazike, Rakesh Saini, Anne Casile, Umberto Lombardo, S. Yoshi Maezumi, Sathaporn Monprapussorn, and Albert Hafner
Papers by Anne Casile
Antiquity
During the mid-first millennium AD, new kingdoms and states emerged across South Asia. At this ti... more During the mid-first millennium AD, new kingdoms and states emerged across South Asia. At this time, land grants made to Hindu temples are thought to have led to wide-ranging societal transformations. To date, however, neither the land-grant charters nor the changes they are said to have driven have been studied archaeologically. Here, the authors present the results of the first archaeological investigation of the charters and their landscape context. Bringing together the textual record with a survey of 268 religious and residential sites, the results establish historical baselines against which the longue durée developments of South Asian social, political and economic formation can be profitably re-posed.
Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe - HAL - Diderot, Dec 7, 2016
In South Asian Archaeology 2005, ed. A. Hardy, Proceedings of 17th International Conference of th... more In South Asian Archaeology 2005, ed. A. Hardy, Proceedings of 17th International Conference of the Association of South Asian Archaeologists in Western Europe (Society for South Asian Studies, British Academy, London, 2007), pp. 29-48.
This dataset comprises details of known archaeological sites and remains in the Vidarbha region o... more This dataset comprises details of known archaeological sites and remains in the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, India, dating between the Megalithic and Medieval periods. For further details of these data and the files contained within this dataset, see the readme file enclosed: Vidarbha_Archaeology_Readme.txt For further information about these data, the methods used to collect them and their analyses, please see: Hawkes, J. and Casile, A. 2020 (under review). Back to Basics: Returning to the Evidence and Mapping Knowledge in South Asian Archaeology. Asian Archaeology.
Les Nouvelles de l'archéologie, 2017
Durant la periode medievale, les fluctuations du climat ont joue un role majeur dans l’histoire d... more Durant la periode medievale, les fluctuations du climat ont joue un role majeur dans l’histoire des societes. Il ne s’agit plus d’une idee hautement controversee, ni d’un sujet a eluder. Les indicateurs paleo-climatiques, qu’ils soient de nature biologique, geochimique, sedimentaire ou archeologique, ou proviennent d’archives historiques, sont en nombre croissant ces dernieres annees et temoignent d’une importante variabilite du climat a diverses echelles du temps, de l’interannuel au plurise...
The Medieval History Journal, 2021
Instabilities of the monsoon climate system, along with alternating periods of severe dryness and... more Instabilities of the monsoon climate system, along with alternating periods of severe dryness and wetness, are known to have punctuated and disrupted the lives of peoples and institutions across Asia during medieval times. As far as India is concerned, the topic has attracted little attention from historians and archaeologists. Did climatic variations play a determining role in societal changes in medieval times? The aim of this article is not to answer, but to raise and refine this question by calling for new interdisciplinary initiatives which would enrich our reading and understanding of the past and contribute different threads to the narratives of medieval history and archaeology. While doing so, it highlights two lingering ‘lacks’ underlying the well-established historiography: the lack of attention to nature, and thus to climate; and the lack of archaeology. Attention is then focused on recent advances in palaeoclimatology and in research linking climate and society, in which...
En Inde. l'eau est depuis fort longtemps une préoccupation majeure sur les plans tant de la d... more En Inde. l'eau est depuis fort longtemps une préoccupation majeure sur les plans tant de la disponibilité de la ressource. que de sa gestion. En témoigne le nombre impressionnant de vestiges en surface provenant d'ouvrages hydrauliques qui aujourd'hui encore structurent partout les paysages culturels à travers le sous-continent. Un très grand nombre de ces ouvrages ont été construits durant l'ère dite «médiévale», et sont associés dans l'espace aux vestiges de sites religieux. La plupart sont dans un état d'abandon qui répond au développement de nouvelles pratiques de gestion de l'eau fondée sur une surexploitation des nappes souterraines depuis la révolution verte et l'aménagement de grands barrages (les « temples de l'Inde moderne »). Au regard de ces évolutions récentes et de leurs impacts sur le devenir des sociétés en Inde, il est aujourd'hui essentiel d'interroger les vestiges de ces ouvrages afin d'en comprendre l'importance...
Asian Archaeology, 2020
In this article we advocate a return to the consideration and examination of the basic building b... more In this article we advocate a return to the consideration and examination of the basic building blocks of archaeological enquiry: the evidence. Reacting to a widely held perception that archaeology now understands various commonalities of human experience, we suggest that such concepts and the inevitable oscillation towards “big picture” approaches that stems from them are problematic. They engender a type of scholarship that does not always engage fully with the evidentiary bases of interpretation and that risks assuming a great deal about large parts of the world that have not been studied in as much detail as others. We explore this by looking at the South Asian context, where archaeologists are forced to contend with a number of constraints, chief among which is a relative absence of archaeological evidence. Focusing on one particular sub-region, we piece together exactly what evidence exists and consider what can (and cannot) be said from it. On one level this serves as a usefu...
Asian Archaeology, 2020
In this article we advocate a return to the consideration and examination of the basic building b... more In this article we advocate a return to the consideration and examination of the basic building blocks of archaeological enquiry: the evidence. Reacting to a widely held perception that archaeology now understands various commonalities of human experience , we suggest that such concepts and the inevitable oscillation towards "big picture" approaches that stems from them are problematic. They engender a type of scholarship that does not always engage fully with the evidentiary bases of interpretation and that risks assuming a great deal about large parts of the world that have not been studied in as much detail as others. We explore this by looking at the South Asian context, where archaeologists are forced to contend with a number of constraints, chief among which is a relative absence of archaeological evidence. Focusing on one particular sub-region, we piece together exactly what evidence exists and consider what can (and cannot) be said from it. On one level this serves as a useful comparator for those working in other parts of the world who may not appreciate the evidentiary constraints that exist elsewhere. Yet beyond this and simple questions of analogy, we suggest that detailed consideration of an area such as the one presented here forces us to return to even more fundamental questions relating to when archaeological research becomes "interesting", "ground-breaking", and "new"; and who decides this.
South Asian Studies, 2014
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