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Archaeology & Prehistory

Burzahom: Neolithic pit-dwellings

c. 3000-1000 BCE (Neolithic to Megalithic)Northern Neolithic communityBurzahom (Kashmir)Kashmir

3,000 BCE

Pit-houses dug into the soil with stone celts, later replaced by surface mud houses, with storage pits for wheat, barley and lentils.

Dated: 3,000–1,000 BCE
As scholars put it: c. 3000-1000 BCE (Neolithic to Megalithic)
Originator: Northern Neolithic community
Source text: Burzahom (Kashmir)
Region: Kashmir
Discipline: Archaeology & Prehistory
Evidence: Documented
Confidence: High
Verification: Verified-web

Meanwhile in the West

Comparable to pit-dwelling Neolithic traditions of Central and East Asia.

Fair to say

Dates vary by phase, and the full excavation report appeared decades late.

Path to modern innovation

Type-site of the Northern Neolithic; on UNESCO's tentative list.

Transmission

Lentils and beads point to contact with Central Asia.

References

1UNESCO tentative list (2014)
2ASI excavations 1960-71 (T. N. Khazanchi)

Further reading

Related

Neolithic skull trepanation (Burzahom)'Burzahom needles prove the Kashmir shawl began in the Neolithic'

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