This book embodies a summary account of the archaeologicalexcavations carried
out at Agiabir during 1998-2000 by the authors. This ancientsettlement is
situated on the left bank of the Ganga in district Mirzapur ineastern Uttar
Pradesh. This investigation has provided a culture sequence ofabout two thousand
years ranging in date from c. 1500 BC to AD 700. This longstory of human
civilization in the Mid-Ganga Valley has been divided into fiveperiods. A glance
in this report will show that many hitherto unrecorded facetsof human
civilization had remained undocumented so far. The book gives asynoptic view of
the main results in the backdrop of the progress made in