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Tradition summary: South Indian Chalcolithic
Human Relations Area Files • New Haven, Conn. • Published In 2017 • Pages:
By: Shinde, Vasant, Deshpande, Shweta Sinha.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a summary of the South Indian Chalcolithic Tradition. Information is presented on major aspects of the South Indian Chalcolithic archaeological tradition.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Culture summary
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- South Indian Chalcolithic
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2018
- 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.
- 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; 2017
- 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
- 4500-2700 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Maharashtra, Karnataka, Telangana, southern Madhya Pradesh, western Andhra Pradesh, and northern Tamil Nadu, India
- NotesAdditional notes
- Vasant Shinde and Shweta Sinha Deshpande
- This tradition summary is from the article “South Indian Chalcolithic," by Vasant Shinde and Shweta Sinha Deshpande, in the Encyclopedia of Prehistory, Volume 8, South and Southwest Asia, Peter N. Peregrine and Melvin Ember, eds., New York: Plenum Publishing Corporation, 2002. Sarah Berry expanded the following sections: Location; Settlement System; Population, Health, and Disease; and Utentils; and made minor revisions to other sections in September 2017. We thank Peter N. Peregrine for bibliographic suggestions.
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Copper age--India--Deccan
- Deccan (India)--Antiquities
- Social archaeology--India--Deccan