The book is three in one. It deals with the excavtion reports of sites excavated by the author ranging from prehistoric times to almost modern. Beginning with the excavations in a cave in Maharashtra, to Megalithic cist burials in Uttaranchal and ending with the excavation and conservation of a church built by the Augustinan Frairs in Goa. It shows as how the friction between the two sects belonging to the same religion could lead to destruction of thir own place of worship. The result of the excavation in the cave show that right from the Middle Stone Age to Gond period, their was continuity nullifying the view that for different cultures different waves of people are responsible. It is all indigenous and slow evolution.