book chapter
Environment and Chalcolithic land use pattern
Excavations at Kaothe, by M.K. Dhavalikar, Vasant Shinde, Shubhangana Atre • Pune • Published In 1990 • Pages: 5-14
By: Pappu, Raghunath S., Shinde, Vasant.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The authors describe the modern environment around Kaothe—including climate, geology, soils, vegetation, fauna, etc.—to help reconstruct the past environment. A catchment analysis of five kilometers around the site was performed to understand Chalcolithic land use and the findings from the excavations.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Culture summary
- Climate
- Topography and geology
- Soil
- Mineral resources
- Fauna
- Flora
- Land use
- 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
- book chapter
- 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
- 4000-3800 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Kaothe, Dhule district, Maharashtra, India
- NotesAdditional notes
- Raghunath Pappu and Vasant Shinde
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 90908787
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Excavations (Archaeology)--India
- Kaothe Site (India)