Book
Excavations at Mahagara, 1977-1978: a neolithic settlement in the Belan Valley
Dept. of Ancient History, Culture and Archaeology, University of Allahabad • Allahabad, India • Published In 1980 • Pages: i-v, vii, ix, xi-xv, 1-127, 129-173 (plate XV misnumbered as p 147)
By: Sharma, G. R. (Govardhan Raj), Mandel, D..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This work focuses primarily on the Neolithic site of Mahagara in the Belan Valley, Uttar Pradesh in northeastern India, which was excavated during the period of 1975-1979. Excavations at the site have exposed the plan of a village in conjunction with that of a cattle pen. In addition to the distinctive pottery found at Mahagara represented by cord-impressed rusticated and burnished wares, the site has also yielded rounded celts, microliths, hammer stones, mullers, querns, bones of domesticated animals, and a variety of rice which may be the earliest evidence of rice cultivation known so far (as of the 1970s) in any part of the world (p.vii). Frequent comparisons are made throughout the text to cultural elements found at other Neolithic sites, such as Koldihwa, and with finds at Upper Palaeolilthic and Mesolithic locations in India.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Climate
- Topography and geology
- Bone, horn, and shell technology
- Ceramic technology
- Lithic industries
- General tools
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- Typologies and classifications
- 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
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- NotesAdditional notes
- G. R. Sharma, D. Mandel
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- India--Antiquities