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Another aspect o f this regime is the important status of cattle as cultural wealth.
The Cultural Tradition and Paleoethnicity in South Asian Archaeology (1995)
A key to understanding the Indo-Gangetic cultural tradition's structure is its economic and cultural focus on cattle.
The Cultural Tradition and Paleoethnicity in South Asian Archaeology (1995)
These emerging connections and relationships in the northern South Asian archaeological record indicate no significant cultural discontinuities.
The Cultural Tradition and Paleoethnicity in South Asian Archaeology (1995)
A cultural tradition refers to persistent configurations o f basic technologies and cultural systems as well as structure within the context of temporal and geographic continuity.
The Cultural Tradition and Paleoethnicity in South Asian Archaeology (1995)
The shift by Harappan groups, and perhaps, other Indus Valley cultural mosaic groups, is the only archaeologically documented west-to-east movement of human populations in South Asia before the first half of the first millennium BC.
The Cultural Tradition and Paleoethnicity in South Asian Archaeology (1995)
By the close of Period II, at ca. 4500/4300 B.C., not only was a distinctive, domestic animal subsistence pattern established, but other cultural traits were present that would characterise this region down to the Early Historic Period.
The Cultural Tradition and Paleoethnicity in South Asian Archaeology (1995)
Although the use of cattle as important cultural wealth declined in the first millennium B.C., their religious status remained high, or intensified, providing an im portant cultural link between the protohistoric and Early Historic Periods
The Cultural Tradition and Paleoethnicity in South Asian Archaeology (1995)
The numerous and substantial mud brick “granaries” built by the close of Period HA at Mehrgarh, in the first half of the 5th millennium B.C., suggest a concern, unparalleled in contemporary cultures, for surplus production irrespective of what was stored in them.
The Cultural Tradition and Paleoethnicity in South Asian Archaeology (1995)