S24D



S24D

Room 2.3

The archaeology of play: Unearthing the role of games in ancient community / L’archéologie du jeu : mettre au jour le rôle des jeux dans les communautés anciennes

Session organizers: Ananya Chakraborty, Abhijit S. Ambekar

S24D, Wed Sep 2 2026, 9:00 - 12:50, Room 2.3

9:00-9:20 - Introduction / Session organizers

9:20-9:40 - The Iconography of Board Games on Roman Tokens: An Attempt to identify the Game Depicted / Kostiantyn Kurylenko

9:40-10:00 - Leisure Practices In PGW Society: Archaeological Indicators And Interpretation / Priya Saxena, Mohit Sharma

10:00-10:20 - Archaeology of Leisure: The Antiquity of the Tigrean Game Board, Gebeta, in Northern Ethiopia / Hadgu Zeru

10:20-10:40 - The Ethnoarchaeology of Aadu Puli Aattam: Site Context, Materiality, and Social Dynamics of an Ancient Asymmetrical Board game / Kaustubh Singh

10:40-11:00 - Pāśaka and Play: Integrating the Archaeological and Literary Perspectives on Dice from Ancient Vadnagar, Gujarat / Ananya Chakraborty, Abhijit S. Ambekar

11:00-11:30 - Coffee break

11:30-11:50 - Miniature Mechanisms; Archaeological Perspectives on Play in Ancient Gujarat / Abhijit S. Ambekar, Ananya Chakraborty

11:50-12:10 - Ancient Games, Living Traditions: Cultural Continuity of Play from the Indus Civilisation to Modern India / Kavya Swaroop, Guru Dayal Verma

12:10-12:30 - Final debate