Social distinctions during the south Indian Neolithic: changing mortuary practices in a late prehistoric cemetery at Maski
Social distinctions during the south Indian Neolithic: changing mortuary practices in a late prehistoric cemetery at Maski
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10.15184/aqy.2023.81
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2023-06
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1.8
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Peter G. Johansen;A. Bauer
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作者：
Peter G. Johansen;A. Bauer
在印度南部的新石器时代遗址（公元前3000-1200年），人们从各种各样的内部和外部定居环境中发现了人类墓葬，但这一时期的正式墓地几乎仍然未知。在印度南部卡纳塔克邦Raichur区的MARP-79进行的研究记录了一个新石器时代的大型墓地，现在在印度南部的任何考古遗址中都有最多的放射性年代墓葬。墓地展示了相当大的，以前没有记载的殡葬仪式的变化，涉及新的材料，技术和埋葬实践，这挑战了文化历史模型，而是指向长期渐进的发展，改变了我们如何理解新石器时代社会差异的出现。
Abstract Human burials have been recovered from a wide variety of intra- and extramural settlement contexts at Neolithic period sites (3000–1200 BC) in southern India, yet formal cemeteries remain virtually unknown from this period. Research at MARP-79 in the Raichur District of the south Indian state of Karnataka, near the type-site of Maski, documents a large Neolithic cemetery, now with the largest number of radiometrically dated burials of any archaeological site in southern India. The cemetery demonstrates considerable, previously undocumented variation in mortuary ritual, involving new materials, technologies and burial practices, which challenge culture-historical models, pointing instead towards long-term incremental developments that alter how we understand the emergence of Neolithic social differences.