„Megalityczna” epoka żelaza w południowych Indiach

• Authors: Joanna Sudyka

Title variants

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THE “MEGALITHIC” IRON AGE CULTURE IN SOUTH INDIA – SOME GENERAL REMARKS

• Languages of publication: EN PL

Abstracts

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The scope of the paper is to give an up-to-date account of general features of a unique cultural phenomenon which is the South Indian Iron Age. The distribution, chronology, material culture, funerary customs, including the typology of megaliths, and socio-economical issues are outlined. The studies on the material culture of South Indian Iron Age communities revealed its huge complexity. This cultural phenomenon, which had originated around 1000 BC, probably in the northern regions of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, and spread across the vast space of Indian subcontinent, amazes by its simultaneous diversity and uniformity.

Keywords

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IRON AGE; SOUTH INDIA; MEGALITHIC; BLACK AND RED WARE

• Publisher: Institute of Archaeology Rzeszów University, Fundacja Rzeszowskiego Ośrodka Archeologicznego
• Journal: Analecta Archaeologica Ressoviensia
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 5
• Pages: 359-401

Contributors

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Joanna Sudyka

• Institute of Environmental Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Gołębia st. 11, 31-007 Kraków, Poland