Geographical Catalogue of Archaeological Sites of the Part of South West Sundarban Coastal Tract, West Bengal, India

Humans are component elements of physical environment and settlement subsistent pattern of the people are govern by morphogenic evolution of landscape from the early time. Location of any archaeological site is deeply rooted with the local geography in any region, because the history of country is inseparably connected with its geography. The primitive people settled since ancient times on the natural landscape with the favorable geographical environment and sometimes adverse circumstances forced to abandon the settled areas. In this way, the traces of ancient human settlement take position in the natural landscape as archaeological remains. To understand the biodiversity, history, culture and even human behavior are needed to have a clear idea about the geographical environment of any region. Therefore, identification of archaeological remains with respect to local geographical environment is drastically significant. Temporal span of the available archaeological evidences from south west Sundarban region is pro-historic to the Pal-sen periods. The main aim of this study is a systematic arrangement of archaeological sites with a physiographic view.