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A Study of Development of the Ahar Culture in south-east Rajasthan, India from a ceramic point of view

Author(s) -

Amrita Sarkar

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

ancient asia

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 2042-5937

DOI - 10.5334/aa.12303

Subject(s) - pottery , prehistory , chalcolithic , archaeology , assemblage (archaeology) , geography , ancient history , history , bronze age

This paper deals with pottery assemblages from thechalcolithic sites of Balathal and Gilund of the Ahar Culture of southeast Rajasthan.The author tries to build up ceramic chronologies for each of these individual sites inorder to identify different phases in the chalcolithic period and ascertain layers tothese phases. It is done to evaluate whether pottery assemblage do give us muchinformation on history and society of Ahar people. It further integrates data from thesetwo major excavated sites and attempts to provide certain developmental trends andcharacteristics of chalcolithic pottery of the specific prehistoric “culture region”,once the type site (Ahar) has been established and culture region has been defined(Ahar/Banas/Mewar/southeast Rajasthan).'

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