Lithic technology and social transformations in the South Indian Neolithic: The evidence from Sanganakallu–Kupgal (original) (raw)
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Here we examine patterns in stone tool technology among Mesolithic, Neolithic and Iron Age localities in the Sanganakallu-Kupgal site complex, Bellary District, Karnataka, South India. Statistical tests are used to compare proportions of raw materials and artefact types, and to compare central tendencies in metric variables taken on flakes and tools. Lithic-related findings support the inference of at least two distinct technological and economic groups at Sanganakallu-Kupgal, a microlith-focused foraging society on the one hand, and on the other, an agricultural society whose lithic technologies centred upon the production of pressure bladelets and dolerite edge-ground axes. Evidence for continuity in lithic technological processes through time may reflect indigenous processes of development, and a degree of continuity from the Mesolithic through to the Neolithic period. Lithic production appears to have become a specialised and spatially segregated activity by the terminal Neolithic and early Iron Age, supporting suggestions for the emergence of an increasingly complex economy and political hierarchy.
4 NEOLITHIC CULTURE OF NORTHERI{ ODISHA
Bas anta l(u.mar Mohanta lntroduction The entire Indian subcontinentisveryrich in Neolithic artifacts. The occurrence ofNeolithic culture in the Indian subcontinent is not very late in comparison with *re rest of the world. On the basis of the Cra dates, Mehergarh in Pakisthan, the earliest Neolithic site in South Asia, is dated to the sixth millennium BC with both aceramic and ceramic traditions.r Numerous polished celts (ordinary and shouldered), potsherds of kiln-backed, painted pottery have been discovered from the different Neolithic sites of Kashmir, Madhya Pradesh,
Chief Editor Welcome to NAIRJC NEOLITHIC CULTURES IN INDIA-A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS
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The article attempts to show that the Neolithic phase in Indian subcontinent did not develop everywhere at the same time nor ended simultaneously. The Neolithic cultures in different geographical regions have their own distinctive features and chronological time span. These Neolithic cultures exhibit some regional variations and are conditioned by their own geographical and environmental settings, and therefore need to be discussed separately. The Neolithic cultures of India can be classified into different regions or provinces, but keeping in view their distinction from each other, no two scholars agree on one classification. However, it seems these divisions are meant to provide a suitable framework for future research and might provide possibilities of studying the relationship between the cultures and their environment. In addition, the division of these Neolithic regions is tentative and subject to revision. B.K. Thapar, has divided Neolithic cultures of Indian subcontinent int...
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The technician’s engagement with the material world makes technology a meaningful form of engaged practice. Their day-to-day creation, perception, production, mediation and transformation of the material world ultimately results in the formation of a tool. A study on manufacturing and tool forms indicate significant social and cultural transformations. The Garo hills stone tool industry has well defined formal lithic tools embedded in a yellowish brown alluvium of the Holocene period. By studying production, function and the site setting social information is gathered about the Neolithic inhabitants of Garo hills, Meghalaya. The aim of this study is to understand two factors: (i) social information carried by lithic tools and (ii) conditions that bring about the use of certain items of material culture to transmit messages about social relations.
Social Information from Lithic Tools: The Neolithic Tools of Garo Hills, Meghalaya
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The technician’s engagement with the material world makes technology a meaningful form of engaged practice. Their day-to-day creation, perception, production, mediation and transformation of the material world ultimately results in the formation of a tool. A study on manufacturing and tool forms indicate significant social and cultural transformations. The Garo hills stone tool industry has well defined formal lithic tools embedded in a yellowish brown alluvium of the Holocene period. By studying production, function and the site setting social information is gathered about the Neolithic inhabitants of Garo hills, Meghalaya. The aim of this study is to understand two factors: (i) social information carried by lithic tools and (ii) conditions that bring about the use of certain items of material culture to transmit messages about social relations.
Neolithic Culture in Krishnagiri Region - A Study
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