List of Tables

Table 4.1 List of test pits and areas excavated in Trench A 27 Table 4.2 The proposed relative and absolute chronology of the two temples 59 Table 4.3 Stages in the development and use of the shrine within the mandapa of the North Temple 68 Table 4.4 Detailed description of the principal walls in Trench A 75 Table 6.1 Occurrence of glazed wares in the Nevasa sequence 90 Table 6.2 Percentage occurrence of Type 1 in the lower parts of the sequences from Trenches B, D1 and D2 94 Table 6.3 C14 dates from the temple foundations 96 Table 7.1 Sherd numbers for the main sequences and secondary assemblages included in the final pottery study 102 Table 7.2 The occurrence of the main fabrics by period, by rim-sherd count above, and by rim-sherd count as a percentage of the total period rim-sherd count below 103 Table 7.3 Summary of selected ceramic classes from Paithan by period (rim-sherd counts above; percentages of total period rim-sherd assemblages below) 109 Table 7.4 Summary of body sherd counts of by period for those wares for which body sherds were counted separately 109 Table 7.5 Types by period based on rim-sherd count (left) and percentages of total rim-sherd count (right) 114 Table 7.6 Types from Trench A: Test Pit 1 by rim-sherd count and layer in stratigraphic sequence 140 Table 7.7 Types from Trench B by rim-sherd count and layer in stratigraphic sequence 142 Table 7.8 Types from Trench C by rim-sherd count and layer in stratigraphic sequence 146 Table 7.9 Types from Trench D1 by rim-sherd count and layer in stratigraphic sequence 146 Table 7.10 Types from Trench D2 by rim-sherd count and layer in stratigraphic sequence 147 Table 7.11 Types from Trench F by rim-sherd count and layer in stratigraphic sequence 148 Table 7.12 The number of sherds and the amount of earth excavated from a sample of period-assemblages from across the site (Trench A Test Pit 1 (TP1) Periods 1–4; Trench B (TrB) Periods 1, 2 and 4; Trench D1 (TrD1) Period 1; Trench D2 (TrD2) Periods 1 and 2; Trench F (TrF) Periods 1, 2 and 3; Trench A Garbha Griha of the North Temple (GGN), Period 3-Temple and Trench A Test Pit 5 (TP5) Period 3-Temple) 150 Table 7.13 The density of sherds per cubic metre from 15 period-assemblages from across the site 150 Table 7.14 Average density of sherds per meter cubed based on the data from Table 7.13 (not including the anomalously high figure for TP1–1 of 10,938 per m3) 151 Table 7.15 Catalogue of unique sherds 152 Table 8.1 The main categories of small finds 158 Table 8.2 Jewellery objects by period 160 Table 8.3 Summary of beads by material and period 160 Table 8.4 Summary of non-terracotta beads by shape and period 163 Table 8.5 Summary of terracotta beads by shape and period 164 Table 8.6 Summary of bangles by material and period 171 Table 8.7 Summary of metal objects by type of metal and period 184 Table 8.8 Summary of copper objects by type of object and period 192 Table 8.9 Summary of iron objects by type of object and period 196 Table 8.10 Summary of play objects by type of object and period 202 Table 8.11 Glass fragments 214 Table 9.1 The occurrence of coins by period 215 Table 9.2 Occurrence of coins by period as an approximate percentage of the total number of coins found in each period 226 Table 9.3 The coins from Trench A summarized by period 229 Table 9.4 The number of coins, sherds and the amount of earth excavated from a sample of period-sequences from across the site 229 Table 9.5 Coins per cubic metre, sherds per cubic metre and the ratio of coins to sherds from a sample of period-sequences from across the site (based on the data in Table 9.4) 230 Table 12.1a Archaeobotanical data from Paithan. P: present; T: total 248 Table 12.1b Archaeobotanical data from Paithan. P: present; T: total 250 Table 12.2 The presence/absence of cereal crops on peninsular Indian sites of Iron Age or Early Historic date. Sources: Cooke et al. (2005), Kajale (1974, 1977b, 1982, 1984, 1989, 1994), Fuller et al. (2004), Fuller (unpublished data) (Piklihal), Vishnu-Mittre (1968), Vishnu-Mittre and Gupta (1968a,b) and Vishnu-Mittre et al. (1971, 1984) 254 Table 12.3 The occurrence of kodo millet in South Asian archaeology 256 Table 12.4 The presence/absence of pulse crops on peninsular Indian sites of Iron Age or Early Historic date. Sources as for Table 12.2 264 Table 12.5 Archaeobotanical and textile remains of cotton from South Asia 271