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Accepted Paper:

Anthropology in the material world: the case of the rock paintings at Wyndham 3 and 4 (WYN 3 and 4) sites, Uttar Pradesh, India  
Ajay Pratap (Banaras Hindu University)

Paper short abstract:

Amongst the archaeological materials that have been produced by prehistoric humans, the place of the rock paintings, at the Wyndham 1 Site, located by us during a field survey conducted in October 2008 (Antiquity URLhttp://antiquity.ac.uk/antiquityNew/projgall/pratap321/), as situated well-within the Vindhyan Ranges, South of the Varanasi District; has been very well documented (see our project website URL http://www.rockartofindia.webs.com), and, therefore secure. We would propose to discuss the issue of the prehistoric rock paintings of the WYN 1 Site, as the discussion, of Vindhyan Rock Paintings, as contemporary material culture, and the possibilities of its proposed Intellectual Property Right, has not been made until now.

Paper long abstract:

In this paper we propose to discuss the issue of the proper conservation of the prehistoric rock paintings, at WYN 3 and 4 Sites, found by us in the course of an Indian Council of Historical Research funded research project, The Documentation and Analysis of the Rock Art of Mirzapur (2009-2011), of which I am the Director. This is so as a discussion of Indian rock paintings as contemporary material culture and its intellectual ownership and appropriation has not been discussed until now.

It is thus, and therefore, that this paper proposes to consider the pros and the cons of the the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1958, under the Indian Penal Code, to consider how as academic Indian archaeologists we may even begin to define a concept of Intellectual Property Right with regard to Sites and Monuments of India, and how it may be safeguarded, in the Indian Context, and this is all well within the particular ambit of the Indian prehistoric past.

Panel P24
An ambiguous position: traditional knowledge, economic exploitation and research
  Session 1