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Compulsory subjects and post-related subjects for professional and technical cadres. Confirm the applicable subject code in the recruitment notice.
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8. Human achievements during Paleolithic and Neolithic periods.
9. Urban Revolution and Criteria of Civilization.
10. Egyption Civilization, Mesopotamian Civilization and Indus-Civilization.
11. Second Urbanization: Various Resource and sequences.
12. Paleontology: Its history and development from classical stage to the present.
13. Meaning of Epigraphy, types, nature and importance of Epigraphy and Numismatics in the Context
of Archaeology of South Asia, especially Bengal.
14. Social, economic, religious and cultural aspects as reflected in ancient and ear ly medieval Indian
Coins.
15. Geographical Information System (GIS) and its implications in archaeology.
16. Archaeology and Fieldwork and the Basic Units Archaeology.
The Goals and the Framework of Archaeological Inquiry. What is field archaeology? Theoretical
Archaeology vs. Field Archaeology: Meaningless Opposition. Theoretical basis of archaeological
Fieldworks; Culture, Historical, Processual and Post -processual theoretical paradigms in
Archaeological Fieldwork. Archaeological Fieldwork Management in the socio cultural context of
Bangladesh.
17. Definition of terms: Preservation, Conservation, Restoration, Artifacts, Cultural Property,
Archaeology and archaeonetry.
(a) Ethics and principle of conservation purpose of conservation.
(b) Conservation of organic objects, building materials and other archaeological materials.
18. Definition, scope and limitation of Ethnoarchaelogical research. Role of Ethnographic evidence in
the interpretation of archaeologica record and reconstruction of past societies and culture.