Book
The Vedic people: their history and geography
Orient Longman • New Delhi • Published In 1997 • Pages:
By: Kochhar, Rajesh.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This attempt to better understand the people behind the Rigveda traces multiple lines of evidence—texts (the Vedas, Puranas, Ramayana, and Mahabharata, as well as the Zoroastrian Avesta), archaeology, astronomy, genetics, geology, linguistics, literature, and metallurgy—in arriving at the theory that India cannot be the original home of the Vedic people. A wide variety of cultures are covered, dating 4500-1500 BC and found from the Dnieper to the Yenisei rivers, including Sredni Stog, Afanasievo, Andronovo, Yamna, Hut and Catacomb, and Srubnaya.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Location
- Historical reconstruction
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Settlement patterns
- Topography and geology
- Verbal arts
- Dating methods in archaeology
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- Comparative evidence
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Vedic
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2016
- 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
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- 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
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 2014
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- Not applicable
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 4100-2100 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Afghanistan, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
- NotesAdditional notes
- Rajesh Kochhar
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-251) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 99946448
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Vedas--Geography
- Hindu civilization
- Vedic literature--History and criticism