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Will it be proper to consider the megaliths to represent a single, homogeneous or contemporaneous culture? What kind of material life and cultural system is revealed in the megalithic cultures?

  • UPSC 2021
  • Megalithic Cultures

The word "megalith" — from the Greek megas (great) and lithos (stone) — is a purely descriptive label for monuments raised from large stone blocks, mostly as burials or memorials set apart from habitation areas. Applied loosely to structures scattered from Kashmir and Rajasthan to Vidarbha, the Deccan, Tamil Nadu and the north-eastern hills, the…

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  • The Case Against a Single, Homogeneous Culture
  • The Case for a Shared Cultural Horizon
  • Material Life Revealed by the Megaliths
  • The Cultural System: Settlement, Status and Belief

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