Identifying Archaeological Cultures in India: A Critical Appraisal
STUDIES IN PEOPLES HISTORY(2021)
摘要
From a critical review of excavation reports and narratives on the Bronze Age sites, it turns out that archaeological cultures in Indian civilisation are mostly archaeologists' constructions, resulting from the archaeologists' subjective classification and typology. It notes inconsistencies of typologies, their ineffectiveness in comprehending the past and failure to establish the structure of the total culture as well as the main features of people's conditions of life. Archaeologists' constructs of multiple micro-cultures of ceramic identity may thus tend to obfuscate the macro-picture of larger composite cultures in the long process of the formation of Indian civilisation.
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Archaeology, culture, civilisation, artefact, classification, typology
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