ARCHAEOLOGICAL WORKS IN BANGLADESH

Bangladesh has been the cradle of civilization, a center of cultural diffusion, since the dawn of history of mankind. It was the meeting ground of various peoples in different states of civilization, the most primitive as well as the most advanced. The cultural history of Bangladesh is one of the greatest and glorious heritages which every Bangladeshi is legitimately proud of. Each phase of the history of Bangladesh has its distinct characteristics and every race of people who came and settled here, left its individual racial, religions or cultural impacts in the form of temples, stupas, monasteries and mosques along with their associated objects.
Anyway, in order to have a clear idea about the Intangible Cultural Heritage for inclusion in the World Heritage list let me define it once again in the context of Bangladesh in the following way:
a) A property which exhibits an important interchange of human Values on developments in art or technology.
b) A unique or exceptional testimony to a Culture of Civilization.
c) An outstanding example which illustrates a significant stage in human history
d) A property which is closely associated with matters of outstanding.
The Colorful Cultural life of the tribal people of Bangladesh also plays an important part in the Cultural life of Bangladesh.
The picturesque hill ranges of their peripheral regions on the north -east, east and south-east, ordering Mymensingh ,Sylhet,and Chittagong Hill tracts are inhabited by a number of tribal people, whose culture and way of life are as varied and colorful as the natural beauty of our land.Dress,ornaments,tools and weapons ,rituals,customs,traditions and crafts are sharply different from the people of the plains. No cogent history, but some legends, is to be found about any of the quasi-tribal groups living at present in Bangladesh. According to the legend a, still in current, each appear to be a sub-segment of a nomadic tribe who prowled in the neighboring lands for their sustance in the hoary past and ultimately wended its way into naturally forlorn lurking pockets of Bangladesh following incessant feud for either land or leadership. This supposition may be held to be correct for the Northerners as well as east-enders only since we have definite proof that the Westerners were brought as immigrants by different colonial peers
From Santalparganah, Nagpur and Ranchi of India in the late-medieval period. Whatever may be the case, they are now sharing Bangladeshi nationhood at full length.But,they are gradually forgetting their hereditary style of life with the fast expanding urbanization.
Therefore, the Government of Bangladesh now maintains five Tribal Cultural Institutes and an ETHNOLOGICAL MUSEUM across the country with a view to make the future generation informed about the different issues of their traditional phenomena. Even the National Museum of Bangladesh also has one more galleries to serve the the same purpose.

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