essay
The beginning of agriculture in the Kachi Plain: the evidence of Mehrgarh
south asian archaeology 1981 : proceedings of the sixth international conference of the association of south asian archaeologists in western europe : held in cambridge university, 5-10 july 1981 • Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] • Published In 1984 • Pages: 29-33
By: Costantini, Lorenzo.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Constantini summarizes the floral data gathered from the site of Mehrgarh and considers this document a progress report. As the usual flotation techniques did not work, this forced the author and others to examine the adobe brick for plant impressions. The impressions have revealed different types of barley, wheat, grape, fig and even cotton seed.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Recording and collecting in the field
- Laboratory analysis of materials other than dating methods in archaeology
- Cereal agriculture
- Arboriculture
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Indus Neolithic
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2004
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- South Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Botanist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry ; 2002
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- circa 8000 BP-4500 BP (end of the sixth millennium B.C.-mid third millennium B.C.)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Mehrgarh, Kachhi, Balochistan, Pakistan
- NotesAdditional notes
- Lorenzo Costantini
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 33)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 8314377
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Neolithic period