The MPhil./PhD. students of the PGIAR will be presenting their research findings at the PGIAR Graduate Student Seminar scheduled for 4 May 2011 from 9.00 a.m. to 4.30 p.m.  at the PGIAR Auditorium, Postgraduate Institute of Archaeology, 407, Bauddhaloka Mawatha, Colombo 7. This seminar is open for public.

Sri Lanka is an island characterized by mostly Precambrian metamorphic and Miocene limestone rocks and has a very high density of caves. Speleology, the scientific study of caves, has been identified as an important discipline that should be done parallel to the other archaeological research. In 2009 the Postgraduate Institute of Archaeology, University of Kelaniya (PGIAR), started researching Sri Lankan caves with the collaboration of the University of Sydney, Australia.