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Excavations at Chirand: new light on the Indian neolithic culture-complex
Puratattva • (4) • Published In 1971 • Pages: 19-23
By: Verma, B. S..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article presents a brief summary on some of the major archaeological findings at the Neolithic site of Chirand, in the district of Saran, Bihar, India. Lithic, bone, and ceramic industries are described by the author who also provides information on the foods and agriculture of this Neolithic population. The document concludes with a statement on the chronology of Chirand, based on C-14 dates.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Ornament
- Bone, horn, and shell technology
- Ceramic technology
- Lithic industries
- General tools
- Visual arts
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Ganges Neolithic
- 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
- article
- 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
- NotesAdditional notes
- B. S. Verma
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- India--Antiquities