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To what extent archaeological materials are useful in understanding the progress of neolithic man in India?
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- Pre-history and Proto-history
The Neolithic in India marks the transition from food-gathering to food-production — the domestication of plants and animals, the rise of sedentary village life, ground and polished stone tools, and the earliest pottery. Because this phase lies wholly before any script, archaeological material is not merely one useful source among several — it is, for…
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- Settlement Evidence and the Rise of the Village
- Plant Domestication: Reading the Grain
- Animal Domestication and Pastoral Economy
- Technology, Craft and the Beginnings of Belief
- The Limits of the Archaeological Record
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