Subsistence strategies and burial rituals: Social practices in the late Deccan Chalcolithic

Asian Perspectives

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 247-266

  Raczek, Teresa P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Burial practices; Chalcolithic; Deccan; India; Subsistence

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL TRADITION; SOCIAL HISTORY; SUBSISTENCE AGRICULTURE;

ASIA; DECCAN; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 0442297352     PISSN: 00668435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/asi.2003.0047     Document Type: Article

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