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Cist burials of the Kumaun Himalayas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

D. P. Agrawal ,
Jeewan Kharakwal ,
Sheela Kusumgar  and
M. G. Yadava
D. P. Agrawal
Affiliation:
Physical Research Laboratory, Navrangapura, Ahmedabad 380009, India
Jeewan Kharakwal
Affiliation:
Institute of Rajasthan Studies, Udaipur, India
Sheela Kusumgar
Affiliation:
Physical Research Laboratory, Navrangapura, Ahmedabad 380009, India
M. G. Yadava
Affiliation:
Physical Research Laboratory, Navrangapura, Ahmedabad 380009, India
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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.

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Antiquity , Volume 69 , Issue 264 , September 1995 , pp. 550 - 554
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1995

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