• Prachi Virag Sontakke

Enchanting as they are, instances of great floods have always dominated the literary compositions all around the world. The same compositions also talk about human response to such calamities in form of construction of a boat as per divine guidance. This attests to the fact that the humans never surrendered to the vagaries of flood and devised ways and methods to cope with the devastating power of the river. This is the very theme of present paper which deals with the archaeological records relating to Palaeo floods in Middle Ganga Plain from Neolithic times to Gupta period and tries to synchronize the data available from various site to postulate certain flood types and to study the associated human response in form of either site desertion or continuation of habitation at a site by adapting to certain means of survival such as construction of embankments.

Palaeo floods, Middle Ganga Plain, Archaeological records, Literature, Embankments, Site desertion, Flood categorization, Human response

"Palaeoflood signatures and human response: A brief study in Middle Ganga Plain from Neolithic to Gupta period", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 7, page no.b202-b209, July-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2307128.pdf

"Palaeoflood signatures and human response: A brief study in Middle Ganga Plain from Neolithic to Gupta period", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 7, page no. ppb202-b209, July-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2307128.pdf