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Cist burials of the Kumaun Himalayas

Authors :
Jeewan Kharakwal
M. G. Yadava
Sheela Kusumgar
D. P. Agrawal
Source :
Antiquity. 69:550-554
Publication Year :
1995
Publisher :
Cambridge University Press (CUP), 1995.

Abstract

In the Kumaun region of Uttar Pradesh, India, on the southern slopes of the Himalaya are cist burials, as well as megalithic monuments. Radiocarbon dates from the cists now hint at their going back to the 3rd millennium BC, and linguistic affinities would associate them with early Indo-European migrations into the western and central Himalaya regions.

Details

ISSN :
17451744 and 0003598X
Volume :
69
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Antiquity
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........12e5abc15bd1fbed8d1cc6589567b33c
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x0008193x