A study on the Dwelling site of the Bronze Age in Hyeongsan-river Basin

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 34-71
Author(s):  
Do Hyun Lee ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
River Basin ◽  
The Bronze Age

scholarly journals Círculos segmentados gravados na Bacia do Rio Lima (Noroeste de Portugal): contributos para o seu estudo

2020 ◽  
pp. 613-629
Author(s):  
Diogo Marinho ◽  
Ana M. S. Bettencourt ◽  
Hugo Aluai Sampaio
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Rock Art ◽  
Geographic Area ◽  
Macroscopic Observation ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
The Bronze Age

Rock art as a practice of past communities can be divided into Palaeolithic and post-Palaeolithic arts. Considering the later, which in turn can be divided into Atlantic and Schematic Arts, among other styles difficult to define (Bettencourt, 2017a, 2017b), this work will focus Atlantic rock art. Our selected object of study is the recorded segmented circles that, according to that author, will belong to a stylistic universe emerging in the Bronze Age. The geographic area is the Lima River basin. Although these motifs are rare, they appear both on the coast and inland, in association with different figurative grammars. By the macroscopic observation of its orientation they indicate a relation with celestial cults or celebrations during certain moments of the year.

scholarly journals On the existence of a perennial river in the Harappan heartland

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anirban Chatterjee ◽  
Jyotiranjan S. Ray ◽  
Anil D. Shukla ◽  
Kanchan Pande
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Temporal Changes ◽  
Sediment Provenance ◽  
Western India ◽  
Isotopic Ratios ◽  
Harappan Civilization ◽  
Lesser Himalayas ◽  
North Western ◽  
The Bronze Age

AbstractThe legendary river Saraswati of Indian mythology has often been hypothesized to be an ancient perennial channel of the seasonal river Ghaggar that flowed through the heartland of the Bronze Age Harappan civilization in north-western India. Despite the discovery of abundant settlements along a major paleo-channel of the Ghaggar, many believed that the Harappans depended solely on monsoonal rains, because no proof existed for the river’s uninterrupted flow during the zenith of the civilization. Here, we present unequivocal evidence for the Ghaggar’s perennial past by studying temporal changes of sediment provenance along a 300 km stretch of the river basin. This is achieved using 40Ar/39Ar ages of detrital muscovite and Sr-Nd isotopic ratios of siliciclastic sediment in fluvial sequences, dated by radiocarbon and luminescence methods. We establish that during 80-20 ka and 9-4.5 ka the river was perennial and was receiving sediments from the Higher and Lesser Himalayas. The latter phase can be attributed to the reactivation of the river by the distributaries of the Sutlej. This revived perennial condition of the Ghaggar, which can be correlated with the Saraswati, likely facilitated development of the early Harappan settlements along its banks. The timing of the eventual decline of the river, which led to the collapse of the civilization, approximately coincides with the commencement of the Meghalayan Stage.

Investigating Burnt Mounds in Clydesdale during Motorway Construction

1998 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
John A Atkinson ◽  
Camilla Dickson ◽  
Jane Downes ◽  
Paul Robins ◽  
David Sanderson
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Research Strategy ◽  
Archaeological Evidence ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Short Account ◽  
And Function ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Bronze Age

Summary Two small burnt mounds were excavated as part of the programme to mitigate the impact of motorway construction in the Crawford area. The excavations followed a research strategy designed to address questions of date and function. This paper surveys the various competing theories about burnt mounds and how the archaeological evidence was evaluated against those theories. Both sites produced radiocarbon dates from the Bronze Age and evidence to suggest that they were cooking places. In addition, a short account is presented of two further burnt mounds discovered during the construction of the motorway in Annandale.

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