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Trouble of Thinking about the archaeology of the early medieval and the medieval in Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Basin / Swadhin Sen, Supriya Varma and Bhairabi Prasad Sahu -- PART 1: Conceptual, methodological, and spatiotemporal domains of archaeology -- Excavating the medieval in South Asian archaeology (c. sixth-fourteenth centuries CE) / Supriya Varma -- The changing landscape of early medieval Indian history: perspectives from archaeology / Bhairabi Prasad Sahu -- Engaging with the past beyond the comfort zone: early medieval and medieval in the archaeological context of the northwestern part of Bengal / Swadhin Sen, S. M. Kamrul Ahsan, Abir Bin Keysar and Ahmed Sharif -- PART 2: Settlements, landscapes, and interpretive frameworks -- Changing patterns of agrarian development in early medieval North Bengal: a delineation from the inscriptions / Ryosuke Furui -- Early medieval and medieval settlements on the littoral and active part of a delta: an archaeological study of the southwestern part of Bangladesh / A.K.M. Syfur Rahman and Afroza Khan Mita -- Chronicles of perpetually reconfiguring entanglements: a precursory understanding of the landscape archaeology of Teesta Megafan of Bangladesh / Swadhin Sen and A. K. M. Khorshed Alam -- PART 3: Pottery analyses and the spatiotemporal indexes -- Pottery of Bengal during the early medieval period / Coline Lefrancq -- Analysing the pottery from the Brahmaputra Valley: issues within archaeology and history (seventh-fifteenth centuries CE) / Preetee Sharma -- PART 4: Contextualising material culture and monumental remains -- Religious pictures from Bengal and Eastern Bihar: more than illustrating pantheons / Claudine Bautze-Picron -- Temple-building in the early medieval-medieval Bengal: revisiting contexts in Western Bengal / Sharmila Saha -- The regional monetary identity of 'medieval Bengal' (thirteenth-sixteenth century CE): coin hoards, mint towns, and connectivity / Sutapa Sinha.