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Early Iron Age Megalith Builders of Vidarbha
A Historical View
This chapter presents a synthetic account of centuries of research on the megalith builders of the early Iron Age of Vidarbha. The landscape of Vidarbha is dominated by a large variety of very big stone monuments: circles, cairns, chambers, dolmens, cists, menhirs, and alignments. The investigation of the stone circles of Vidarbha and their builders was first taken up by Christian missionaries, British civil servants, and army personnel in the mid‐nineteenth century, during colonial rule in India. The megalith builders have emerged as the most important basic metallic material producers of Vidarbha. They fashioned a wide variety of useful iron artifacts, demonstrated for example by the evidence at Naikund. Their graveyards were located far outside their settlement area, unlike their predecessors, the Neolithic‐Chalcolithic communities of Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh. Graffiti is a common occurrence on the external surface of earthen pots, especially the black‐and‐red ware.
Early Iron Age Megalith Builders of Vidarbha
A Historical View
This chapter presents a synthetic account of centuries of research on the megalith builders of the early Iron Age of Vidarbha. The landscape of Vidarbha is dominated by a large variety of very big stone monuments: circles, cairns, chambers, dolmens, cists, menhirs, and alignments. The investigation of the stone circles of Vidarbha and their builders was first taken up by Christian missionaries, British civil servants, and army personnel in the mid‐nineteenth century, during colonial rule in India. The megalith builders have emerged as the most important basic metallic material producers of Vidarbha. They fashioned a wide variety of useful iron artifacts, demonstrated for example by the evidence at Naikund. Their graveyards were located far outside their settlement area, unlike their predecessors, the Neolithic‐Chalcolithic communities of Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh. Graffiti is a common occurrence on the external surface of earthen pots, especially the black‐and‐red ware.
Early Iron Age Megalith Builders of Vidarbha
A Historical View
Schug, Gwen Robbins (editor) / Walimbe, Subhash R. (editor) / Joshi, P.S. (author)
A Companion to South Asia in the Past ; 295-309
2016-06-08
14 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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