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Craft specialization and social organization in the Chalcolithic Deccan, India
Antiquity • 65 (249) • Published In 1991 • Pages: 796-807
By: Shinde, Vasant.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The author emphasizes evidence from the sites of Daimabad and Inamgaon in a discussion of the archaeological evidence for craft specialization and a chiefdom-level society by 3500 BP.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Jewelry manufacture
- Ceramic technology
- Lithic industries
- Nonferrous metal industries
- Building supplies industries
- Dwellings
- Heating and lighting equipment
- Housing
- Occupational specialization
- Community heads
- Burial practices and funerals
- 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
- 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
- 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
- no date given
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 4000-2700 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Maharashtra, India
- NotesAdditional notes
- Vasant Shinde
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 807)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 29021740
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Excavations (Archaeology)--India