Potential geoarchaeological sites for luminescence dating in the ganga bhagirathi-hugli delta, West Bengal, India

Abstract

Archaeological studies in the upper and lower part of the Ganga-Bhaghrathi-Hugli delta were taken up to understand the nature of site formation and human adaptation in a dynamic fluvial zone. This aspect has been neglected in Indian archaeology. However archaeological dating using ty-pological information, has an error margin of a couple of centuries and hence, is of limited use. We suggest that high resolution chronology using Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) and radio-carbon dating can be quite effective in the study of archaeology and human environment relationship in the Ganga-Brahmaputra Delta (GBD). © 2011 Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland. All rights reserved.