Description
Beyond Boundaries: Religion, Region, Language and the State publishes books on the religious cultures of Asia. Moving beyond geographical, chronological, disciplinary and historiographical boundaries, the books in this series explore the cultural materials and interactions of people groups in central, south, and south-east Asia, from late antiquity to the close of the medieval period.
This book reports on excavations at Paithan in India revealed the development of two early Hindu temples from the 4th century to the 9th: the key formative phase of Hinduism. The temples started as small shrines but were elaborated into formal temples. In relation to these changes, the excavations revealed a sequence of palaeobotanical and palaeofaunal evidence that give insight into the economic and social changes that took place at that time. Derek Kennet, Durham Universität, U.K.
