Who was this British archaeologist and officer in the British Army contributed to the excavation of Stone Age and megalithic sites of South India with K. V. Soundararajan?
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K. V. Soundararajan Kodayanallur Vadamamalachery Soundararajan (born 17 February 1925) is an Indian archaeologist who served as Superintendent of the Chennai circle and later, a Joint Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India. He was known for his pioneering work in excavating Stone Age and megalithic sites of South India along with Mortimer Wheeler and V. D. Krishnaswami in the late 1940s and the 1950s. Some of the sites excavated by Soundararajan include Sanur (near Chengalpattu) (1950), Kundrathur (1955–56), Perur (1970–71), Malayamputtu (1970–71) and Poompuhar (1970–71, 1973–74).
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Mortimer Wheeler Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler (10 September 1890 – 22 July 1976) was a British archaeologist and officer in the British Army. Over the course of his career, he served as Director of both the National Museum of Wales and London Museum, Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India, and the founder and Honorary Director of the Institute of Archaeology in London, further writing twenty-four books on archaeological subjects.
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Alec Campbell (archaeologist) Alexander Colin ("Alec") Campbell (16 April 1932 – 24 November 2012) was an archaeologist and museum curator in Botswana. He was Emeritus Director of Botswana's Department of Wildlife and National Parks and National Monuments.
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Panchanan Mitra Dr. Panchanan Mitra (Bengali: পঞ্চানন মিত্র ) (25 May 1892 – 25 July 1936) was the first professor of anthropology in India. He was among the first Indians to study at Yale University and conducted several anthropological expeditions in India and abroad. He was the head of the Department of Anthropology of the University of Calcutta and is most known for his works "Prehistoric India" (1923), "History of Ameri-can Anthropology" (1930) and "Indo-Poly-nesian Memories" (1933). He was awarded the Fellowship of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland and today the Asiatic Society awards an annual ‘Panchanan Mitra Memorial Lectureship’ for outstanding contributions to anthropology.
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Frank Adcock Sir Frank Ezra Adcock, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (15 April 1886 – 22 February 1968) was a British classical historian who was Professor of Ancient History at the University of Cambridge between 1925 and 1951. In addition to his academic work, he also served as a cryptographer in both World War I and World War II.
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Joseph Smith (East India Company officer) Brigadier General Joseph Smith (1732/3-1790) was an officer of the British East India Company's army in the mid-18th Century who served in the Carnatic Wars, the Anglo-Mysore Wars and other conflicts in South India. He served with distinction and rose to the position of commander-in-chief of the Madras Army on three occasions (1767-1770, 1770-1772, and 1773-1775).
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K. Paddayya Katragadda Paddayya is an Indian archaeologist, Professor Emeritus and a former Director of Deccan College, known to have introduced two major perspectives in archaeological theory and methodology. He was honored by the Government of India, in 2012, with the fourth highest Indian civilian award of Padma Shri.
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James Dunlop Smith Lieutenant Colonel Sir James Robert Dunlop Smith (1858–1921) was a British official in the Indian Army.
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James Macdonald (engineer) Sir James Ronald Leslie Macdonald, KCSI, KCIE, CB (8 February 1862 – 27 June 1927) was a Scottish engineer, explorer and cartographer. He served as a British Army engineer, rose to the rank of Brigadier-General and was knighted. A balloon observer as a young man, he surveyed for railways in India and East Africa, explored the upper Nile region, commanded balloon sections during wars in South Africa and China and led a major expedition into Tibet in 1903–1904.
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Harold Williams (British Army officer) Lieutenant-General Sir Harold Williams {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (1 June 1897 – 17 October 1971) was an Irish-born British Army and Indian Army officer, engineer and mountaineer.
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Hasmukh Dhirajlal Sankalia Hasmukh Dhirajlal Sankalia (હસમુખ ધીરજલાલ સાંકળિયા) (10 December 1908 - 28 January 1989) was an Indian archaeologist, specialising in Proto- and Ancient Indian history. He is considered to have pioneered archaeological excavation techniques in India, with several significant discoveries from the Prehistoric period to his credit. He was awarded Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak in 1966.
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Raymond Allchin Frank Raymond Allchin FBA (9 July 1923 – 4 June 2010) with his wife, Bridget Allchin FSA (1927–2017), represent one of the most influential British partnerships in the post-Independence study of South Asian archaeology. Producing a large body of scholarship ranging from archaeological excavations, ethnoarchaeology as well as epigraphy and linguistics, the Allchins made their work and that of others highly accessible through a series of sole, joint and edited publications. Seminal works include "The Birth of Indian Civilisation" (1968), which was later superseded only by their books "The Rise of Indian Civilisation in India and Pakistan" (1982) and "The Archaeology of Early Historic South Asia" (1995).
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Everard Blair Brigadier-General Everard McLeod Blair CMG (26 July 1866 – 16 May 1939) was an Indian-born English soldier and cricketer. Blair was a career soldier in the Royal Engineers, rising to the rank of Brigadier-General when he retired in 1918. He played in seven first-class cricket matches for Kent County Cricket Club between 1893 and 1900.
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Archaeological Protected Monuments in Sri Lanka The archaeological heritage of Sri Lanka is divided in to three ages as Prehistoric (Stone age), Protohistoric (Iron age) and historical periods. The presence of man activities in Sri Lanka probably dates from 75,000 years ago (late Pleistocene period). Prehistoric sites which are presently identified in the country are distributed from the maritime belt and the lowland plains of the wet and dry zones to the high plateaus and rain forest in the central and south western mountain region of the island. The protohistoric period expands from about 1000 BC to the historical period at about 500 BC. The main indicators of the distribution of protohistoric and early settlements in the island are the megalithic burials and pottery sites.
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Norman MacMullen General Sir (Cyril) Norman MacMullen, KCB, CMG, CIE, DSO (13 December 1877 - 12 November 1944) was a British officer in the Indian Army.
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Anthony Legge Professor Anthony James Legge ( 6 June 1939 – 4 February 2013). was a British archaeologist and academic, who specialised in zooarchaeology.
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Henry George Raverty Henry George Raverty (31 May 1825 – 20 October 1906) was an officer and linguist in the British Indian Army.
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Edward Impey Edward Alexander Impey, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 28 May 1962) is a British historian, archaeologist, and museum curator. Since October 2013, he has been Master of the Armouries and Director General of the Royal Armouries.
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M. S. Nagaraja Rao Mirle Srinivasa Nagaraja Rao (3 June 1932 – 24 December 2011) was an Indian archaeologist who served as Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) from 1984 to 1987.
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Arthur Evans Sir Arthur John Evans FRS FREng ( ; 8 July 1851 – 11 July 1941) was an English archaeologist and pioneer in the study of Aegean civilization in the Bronze Age. He is most famous for unearthing the palace of Knossos on the Greek island of Crete. Evans continued Heinrich Schliemann's concept of a Mycenaean civilization, but found that he needed to distinguish another civilization, the Minoan, from the structures and artifacts found there and throughout the eastern Mediterranean. Evans was also the first to define Cretan scripts Linear A and Linear B, as well as an earlier pictographic writing.
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Arthur Dorward (British Army officer) Major-General Sir Arthur Robert Ford Dorward {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (1848–1934) was a British Army officer who commanded the Troops in the Straits Settlements.
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Henry Beauchamp St John Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Henry Beauchamp St John, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (26 August 1874 – 5 October 1954) was a British Indian Army officer and colonial administrator.