Dating the Neolithic of South India
New Radiometric Evidence for Key Economic, Social and Ritual Transformations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3379154 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D Q Fuller (0000-0002-4859-080X, University College London), Nicole Boivin (0000-0002-7783-4199, University of Cambridge), Ravi Korisettar (Karnatak University) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 81 |
| Issue | 313 |
| Pages | 755-778 |
| Publication date | 2007-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Antiquity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-598X • E-ISSN: 1745-1744 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003598x00095715 |
| OpenAlex | W175393822 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 53 |
| References cited | 27 |
The Neolithic period in South India is known for its ashmounds, superseded (in its Iron Age) by megalith builders with craft specialisation. Thanks to a major radiocarbon dating programme and Bayesian analysis of the dates, the authors have placed this sequence in a new chronological framework: the ashmounds, formed by burning cattle dung, are created by a few generations of people. In many cases the mounds are then succeeded by villages, for which they may have acted as founding rituals. The new tightly dated sequence also chronicles the cultivation of particular crops, some indigenous and some introduced from Africa
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Craft · Ethnology · Geography · Indigenous · Period (music) · Radiocarbon dating · Radiometric dating · Remote sensing · Sequence (biology) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Ecology · History · Indian and Buddhist Studies
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Prehistoric settlement developments in the multi-period sites of south India, Brahmagiri Hill
Rock Abrading in South India
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From ecological opportunism to multi-cropping
Finding Ashmounds
Crops, cattle and commensals across the Indian Ocean
Sensual, material, and technological understanding
Grinding stones from the neolithic “Ashmound” site of Budihal, India
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Ritual, settlement and land-use practices
Localizing the Different Faces of Archaeological Landscapes in South India
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The Prehistoric Axe Factory at Sanganakallu-Kupgal (Bellary District), Southern India
Cultivation as slow evolutionary entanglement
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Cultural implication based on pollen from the ancient mortuary complex in Sri Lanka
A stable isotope perspective on archaeological agricultural variability and Neolithic experimentation in India
Millet bread and pulse dough from early Iron Age South India
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Shell Middens, Ships and Seeds
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Lithic technology and social transformations in the South Indian Neolithic
Shifting cultivators in South Asia
The virtues of small grain size
Coring, profiling, and trenching
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Moudre ou faire bouillir
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From necessity to choice
Social distinctions during the south Indian Neolithic
The politics and historicity of megalithic places in early South India
The politics of spatial renovation
Metanarratives and the (re)invention of the Neolithic
Finding Plant Domestication in the Indian Subcontinent
Celts, Slabs, and Space
The rise of civilization in India and Pakistan
Domestication of Plants in the Old World
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The Periplus Maris Erythraei
Comment on ‘The Use of Bayesian Statistics for 14 C Dates of Chronologically Ordered Samples
Recent Studies in Indian Archaeology
Landscape, monumental architecture, and ritual
Early plant domestications in southern India
Calibration of radiocarbon results pertaining to related archaeological events
Southern Neolithic Cultivation Systems
Stone Age Cultures of Bellary
Evidence of Neolithic Cattle-Penning at Budihal, Gulbarga District, Karnataka
Development of the Radiocarbon Calibration Program
Radiocarbon Calibration and Analysis of Stratigraphy
The Birth of Indian Civilization
Signs of Life
Landscape and Cosmology in the South Indian Neolithic
Neolithic Cattle-Keepers of South India
Rock art and rock music
Combining archaeological and radiocarbon information
Ceramics, seeds and culinary change in prehistoric India
Integration of Archaeological Phase Information and Radiocarbon Results from the Jama River Valley, Ecuador
South Asian Archaeology 1981
The Stone Alignments of Southern Hyderabad
| Unique citing works | 53 |
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| Citations per year | 2,65 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2026 (21) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 50 |