essay
La nécropole néolithic de Mehrgarh
Les cités oubliées de l'Indus : archéologie du Pakistan : Musée national des arts asiatiques Guimet, 16 novembre 1988-30 janvier 1989 • Paris • Published In 1988 • Pages: 58-64
By: Sellier, Pascal.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Sellier writes, in French, about the neolithic cemetery at Mehrgarh. Primary burial and reburial are two of the types of burials found in this cemetery. He is able to reconstruct some demographic statistics for the neolithic based on the 71 skeletons found and provides death and birth rates.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Burial practices and funerals
- Mourning
- 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 TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- 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 given
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- Neolithic periods IA and IB
- 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
- Pascal Sellier
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 64)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 90102302
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Neolithic period