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  • Butchering Practices of Veddah; the Indigenous People of Sri Lanka 
    Weliange, W.S.; Dandeniya, A.S.; Dewage, D.; Algiriya, A.K.P.P. (In: Proceedings of the International Postgraduate Research Conference 2017 (IPRC – 2017), Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017)
    The Veddah are an ethnic group of people living in Sri Lanka whose population is limited to around 5000 people according to cense carried out in 2011. They live in several villagers adjacent to their original homeland ...
  • Discovery of an iron smelting site in Waakare, Batticaloa district in Sri Lanka 
    Algiriya, P.; Dandeniya, A.S.; Alahakoon, A.M.D.; Weliange, W.S. (12th Annual Research Symposium, University of Kelaniya, 2011)
    Steel was being produced in Sri Lanka since 300 BC by furnaces blown by the monsoon winds, and the protohistoric Early Iron Age in Sri Lanka lasted from 1000 to 600 BC. In March 2010, a group of researchers from the ...
  • Ethno-eththo of Sri Lanka, the Vanneale: Ornithology of the Veddah 
    Weliange, W.S.; Dandeniya, A.S.; Algiriya, P.; Alahakoon, A.M.D.; Dewage, D. (University of Kelaniya, 2011)
    Interviews were conducted with Veddah; the aboriginal people in Sri Lanka, during fieldwork in 2010 and 2011. Joint observations of birds in the wild, examination of illustrations and bird calls helped generate 25 Veddah ...
  • Ma-Lena, a marble cave in Sri Lanka 
    Jayasingha, P.; Dandeniya, A.S.; Senanayake, S.; Champika, W.G.M.; Dewaka, R.; Welianga, W.S. (University of Kelaniya, 2011)
    Ma-Lena which is located at the western foothills of the peak wilderness mountain range and close to Kaluganaga is an underground cave complex. The cave is situated in Guruluwana of Rathnapura District. Physiographically ...
  • Present status of coastal Veddahs in Wakare, Sri Lanka 
    Weliange, W.S.; Dandeniya, A.S.; Alahakoon, A.M.D.; Algiriya, P. (University of Kelaniya, 2011)
    The Coast Veddas or Vedar or Veda Vellalar are Tamilized indigenous Veddah people, who have adopted a dialect of the Tamil language and some of the Tamil social customs, while some original language and customs are still ...
  • Significance of Fish in Culture of Veddah; The Indigenous People of Sri Lanka. Short running title; FISH IN VEDDAH CULTURE. 
    Weliange, W.S.; Algiriya, A.K.P.P.; Dandeniya, A.S.; Dewage, D. (In: Proceedings of the International Postgraduate Research Conference 2017 (IPRC – 2017), Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017)
    Archaeological excavations have disclosed the remains of nine species of freshwater fish from rock shelter sediments that confirms the consumption of fish by prehistoric man in Sri Lanka 40,000 years before now. The ...

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