essay
The site of Kunjhun II, Middle Son Valley and its relevance for the neolithic of central India
old problems and new perspectives in the archaeology of south asia • 2 • Published In 1989 • Pages: 29-46
By: Clark, J. Desmond (John Desmond), Khanna, Gurcharan S..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This paper describes the excavation of the site known as Kunjhun II, located in the Middle Son Valley in central India. The site is of some significance because it represents an area of special activity in which stone was subjected to high heat prior to its utilization as the basis for the manufacture of lithic artifacts. The authors describe the various lithic and ceramic finds at the site and discuss their importance in terms of the radiocarbon dates and what is known of the Vindhyan Neolithic tradition to which Kunjhun belongs.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Archaeological excavation methods
- Lithic industries
- Fire
- General tools
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- Cultural stratigraphy
- 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
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- NotesAdditional notes
- J. Desmond Clark and Gurcharan S. Khanna
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 46)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 90135966
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- India--Antiquities