Book
Ancient Cholistan: archaeology and architecture
Ferozsons (Pvt.) Ltd. • Rawalpindi • Published In 1997 • Pages:
By: Mughal, Mohammad Rafique.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The author conducted four seasons of survey in the Cholistan zone of Punjab province, Pakistan, mainly along the Hakra (Ghaggar-Hakra) River, expanding the corpus of known sites and settlement types for the Early and Mature Indus and for the Vedic traditions. Some sites were excavated to determine stratigraphy and dating.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Archaeological survey methods
- Identification
- Settlement patterns
- Location
- Territorial hierarchy
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Early Indus
- 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.
- 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; 2015
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1972, 1974-1977, 1983, 1993-1997
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 6000-100 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Bahawalnagar, Bahawalpur, and Rahimyar Khan districts, Punjab, Pakistan
- NotesAdditional notes
- Mohammad Rafique Mughal
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-166) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 97930000
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Pakistan--Cholistan Desert
- Architecture--Pakistan--Cholistan Desert
- Cholistan Desert (Pakistan)--Antiquities