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Sri Lankan prehistoric investigations can be divided into several phases. Identifying the nature of prehistoric archaeological investigation and research in Sri Lanka between 1992 – 2018 is the research problem of this paper. The main objective of the research is to collect data and information of Prehistoric Archaeological Investigation and Research (Exploration and Excavation) in Sri Lanka between 1992 – 2018 and arrange them in chronological order. In this process data and information were collected using primary and secondary sources through library survey, Field study, web survey and interviews were conducted to obtain more quantitative data The key research findings of the research are based on the identified several extraordinary features of this period compared to the early research periods such as systematic excavations, chronological methods, multidisciplinary approach, researches in associated with new scientific methodologies and innovative scientific methodologies including genealogical experiments.

Archaeological research at the Yarang complex of moated sites in Pattani demonstrates that this was an early historic Buddhist ceremonial centre and a later Islamic fortification, but probably not the early trade centre called Langkasuka. At Kerisik archaeological evidence supports the identification of this complex as the location of the fifteenth-eighteenth century trading port city of Patani.

The complex social and political systems which characterized aboriginal Polynesia have long been of prominence in the anthropological literature. Certain of these Polynesian political systems, such as the Hawaiian one, represent the maximum levels of social complexity and of rank differentiation which are possible in a society organized on a kin-ship basis. Given these characteristics, it is not surprising that a discussion of Polynesia is regularly included in studies of social and cultural evolution. And it is also not surprising that Polynesian political organization has served as the basis for developing archaeological models of complex social systems in areas as distant as prehistoric Europe (e.g. Renfrew 1973, 1974).