Reviews and Critiques

Identification

Chronologies and Culture Sequences

Location

Fauna

Flora

Tillage

Property System

Status, Role, and Prestige

Community Heads

Bibliographies in Sources

Occupational Specialization

Soil

Land Use

Water Supply

Settlement Patterns

Ornament

General Tools

External Trade

General Character of Religion

Spirits and Gods

Sacred Objects and Places

Congregations

Processing of Basic Materials

Lithic Industries

Metallurgy

Production and Supply

Acculturation and Culture Contact

Dwellings

Grounds

Eschatology

Internal Trade

Mineral Resources

Outbuildings

Urban and Rural Life

Military Installations

Disasters

Organization and Analysis of Results

Culture Summary

Diagnostic Material Attributes

Cultural Participation

Typologies and Classifications

Weapons

Instigation of War

Population

Morbidity

Climate

Domesticated Animals

Diet

Ceramic Technology

Utensils

Topography and Geology

Streets and Traffic

Community Structure

Collecting

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Visual Arts

Age Stratification

Extended Families

Lineages

TRADITION SUMMARY: CENTRAL INDIAN NEOLITHIC

ORIENTATION

ENVIRONMENT

SETTLEMENTS

ECONOMY

SOCIOPOLITICAL ORGANIZATION

RELIGION AND EXPRESSIVE CULTURE

SYNOPSIS

INDEXING NOTES

ALTERNATIVE NAMES

ABSOLUTE TIME PERIOD

RELATIVE TIME PERIOD

LOCATION

DIAGNOSTIC MATERIAL ATTRIBUTES

REGIONAL SUBTRADITIONS

IMPORTANT SITES

CLIMATE

TOPOGRAPHY AND GEOLOGY

BIOTA

SETTLEMENT SYSTEM

COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION

HOUSING

POPULATION, HEALTH AND DISEASE

SUBSISTENCE

INDUSTRIAL ARTS

UTENSILS

ORNAMENTS

TRADE

DIVISION OF LABOR

DIFFERENTIAL ACCESS OR CONTROL OF RESOURCES

SOCIAL ORGANIZATION

CONFLICT

RELIGIOUS BELIEFS AND CEREMONIES

ARTS

DEATH AND AFTERLIFE

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Central Indian Neolithic Tradition is found in central India from 5000 to 3100 BP. Earliest evidence for agriculture and village settlements comes from the site of Balathal in Rajasthan around 5000 BP. The tradition is distinguished by painted, wheel-made ceramics, a specialized blade/flake industry, restricted use of copper, and a farming, stock-raising, pastoralist, and limited hunting based subsistence. After 4400 BP with Harappan contact a chiefdom political organization developed and flourished centered on regional centers. Central Indian Chalcolithic can be divided into the following sub-traditions, or cultures: Ahar (5000-3500 BP), Kayatha (4200-3800 BP) and Malwa (3700-3300 BP).

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