Contents: 1. Presidential address/K.V. Ramesh. 2. Alien views on ancient mathematics/V. Kannan. 3. Mathematics in ancient Tamil poetry/K. Sathiyabama. 4. India's contribution to ancient mathematics/V. Anusuya and A. Nagoor Gani. 5. Vedic Sutras to mathematical problems/S. Bagyalakshmi and G. Rani. 6. Mathematics in ancient India/K. Thilakam. 7. Rock art of India/V. Indira, K. Angamnal and K. Mathuram. 8. Archaeological excavations in the Lower Valley of Tambiraparani River/S. Murugavel. 9. Cultural ecology of Neolithic age in Tamil Nadu/Maruthi Kalaiselvi and G.S. Vijayalakshmi. 10. Genesis of Vimana in Pallava Art/M. Nalini and R. Kalaikkovan. 11. Virtual archaeology/I. Rajeshwari. 12. Archaeology and other sciences - dating methods/M. Maruthi Kalaiselvi and N. Pankaja. 13. Groundwater, 'divining' and 'prospecting'/V. Subramanian and S. Sathyamoorthy. 14. Quantitative chemical analysis of ancient lead coins and sources of lead for making them/D. Raja Reddy. 15. A gold Venetian Ducat of Francesco Loredan (1752-62 A.D.)/R. Gopal. 16. Brahmin hegemony during the Chola period/R. Shanta Kumari. 17. Legitimizing a modern monstrosity by linking with ancient practices/T.S. Rajeswari. 18. Long standing traditional background of Buddhist education/S. Premalatha. 19. Economic ideas of a philosopher-Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)/M. Ramadevi. 20. Women's position as gleaned from the ten Tamil idylls/Mahatman Rao. 21. Kautilya's Arthasastra-The Economics of Great Chanakya or Vishnugupta/N. Vijayalakshmi. 22. Taxation in ancient India/S. Malarkodi. 23. Village administration in Chola country/K. Thiripurasundari and V. Gurumoorthy. 24. Internal and external trade during Chola period/K. Thiripurasundari. 25. Role of guilds in promoting trade and traders/R. Malliga. 26. Ancient taxation system during the Pallava and Chola periods/S. Kayarkanni. 27. The influence of maritime trade on Telugu maxims/I.C. Mohan. 28. Ancient commerce-India/K. Sathyabama. 29. Travel of ancient/Cecilia Pandian. 30. Impact of science in Tamil literature/Joycy Jay Manoharam. 31. Mesozoic Era-the golden age of reptiles/R. Drusilla Victoria. 32. The evolution of microbiology/S. Mariammal and K. Mariammal. 33. The historical significance of bull/P. Kalyani. 34. Early land plant and their evolution/K. Angammal, V. Indira and K. Mathuram. 35. Ethnobotany-an aid to explore ancient remedies/K. Saroja and J. Uma Chitra. 36. Horse-its evolution and representation/L. Lakshmi Bai and G.S. Vijayalakshmi. 37. Ancient and modern science/R. Esakkiammal and T. Saradha. 38. Biology of archaeopteryx as evidenced by palaeontology/L. Lakshmi Bai and G.S. Vijayalakshmi. 39. The vegetation during Jurassic period/S. Muthulakshmi. 40. The ancient product-ghee/P. Kalyani. 41. An efficient algorithm for mining of generalized association rules using inverted hashing method/S. Kiruba alias Kiruthiga. 42. Creation of graphical user interface for identification of Brahmi scripts/H.K. Anasuya Devi. 43. An efficient algorithm for discovering generalized association rule in massive databases/D. Gunaseelam and R. Lawrence. 44. Non-destruction to proton induced x-ray emission studies/V. Vijayan, T.R. Rautray, P.K. Nayak and D.K. Basu. 45. When to eat? how to eat? and what to eat?/R. Kalaikkovan. 46. Ancient science: medicine in the fifth century hippocrates/T. Sardha and M. Senthil Kumari. 47. Ancient wisdom in modern medicine/K. Saroja and J. Uma Chitra. 48. Ancient herbal charms in Siddha medicines and its applications in the treatment of cancer/Antoinette Ramola Elizebeth and G. Parimala. 49. Man's fight against diseases/M. Senthilkumari and T. Sardha. 50. Cheese-the ancient dairy product/K. Marimmal and S. Mariammal. 51. Herbs as curatives from ancient period to present millennium/R. Vimala, R. Selvameena and M. Sangeetha. 52. Ecology in Vedas/N. Kannan. 53. Sarvatobhadra of Srinivasa Ramanujan/N. Pankaja. 54. When modern wisdom fails/G.S. Vijayalakshmi and Maruthi Kalaiselvi. 55. Agricultural methods in ancient India: a study of manuring system/G.S. Vijayalakshmi and L. Lakshmi Bai. 56 Women's property rights-stridhana-during Chola period/S. Saroja. 57. Trade of the West Coast/R. Geetha. 58. Trade and commerce of the East Coast/R. Jainilasundari. 59. Trade during pre-Vedic and Vedic periods/P. Nageswari. 60. Study of the early amphibians with reference to geological period/V. Seema, N.S. Vijayalakshmi and L. Lakshmi Bai. 61. Proboscideans-the gigantic mammals/N.S. Vijayalakshmi and V. Seema. 62. Irrigation system prevailed at Uttaramerur during the ancient period/S. Amirthavalli. 63. Role of numismatics in history and archaeology/D. Sankaranarayanan. 64. Computer analysis of the study of place names of Tambaraparani Basin in Western Ghat/M. Sivajothi, N. Pankaja and V. Kumuthavalli. 65. Origin of man from the view of palaeontological studies/B. Esakkiammal and T. Saradha. 66. Symbol formation in Brahmi: construction of an alternative paradigm/Subrata Kumar Acharya.
"This volume includes the articles presented on the occasion of the National Conference on Ancient Sciences and Archaeology held from March 7 to 9, 2003 at Sri Parasakthi College for women, Courtallam. Scholars from different parts of the country took part in the academic deliberations and presented papers on various topics of ancient sciences and archaeology. It was aimed at the interactions of the scholars on different issues and the recent researches done in the field of archaeology, ancient mathematics, ancient physics, archaeological chemistry, ancient biology, ancient economics and commerce, epigraphy, history, numismatics, onomastics, computer analysis of ancient data, science in Sanskrit and other languages, etc." (jacket)
