Early South Asia: Communities, Cities, States, and Connected Worlds
Bhima-Ghod basin and western Deccan · Perfil con revisión de fuentes

Chalcolithic Deccan communities at Inamgaon

Inamgaon archaeological settlement

Houses, storage, crops, animal remains, craft, and burials document changing village households, inequality, subsistence, and environmental pressures on the Deccan plateau.

Chalcolithic village and household context Primarily c. 1600-700 BCE Settlement excavation, houses, storage, ceramics, plant and animal remains, tools, craft, and burials Inamgaon archaeological site; a village research context, not a regional capital or ethnic homeland
Resumo

Evidências, escala comunitária, organização política e conexões

Paisagens de rios, costas, planícies, mesetas, montanhas e ilhas

Seasonal rainfall, river access, cultivated fields, grazing, and routes across the plateau structured village life.

Organização política e escala comunitária

Households, kin and work groups, and local leadership coordinated farming, storage, craft, and ritual; uneven houses and burials may show status without proving fixed caste categories.

Transformação religiosa, imperial e posterior

Inamgaon evidence cannot establish a modern caste, language, ethnic identity, village continuity, ancestry, or land claim.

Reference point Inamgaon

A village site, not a Deccan capital.

Reviewed 2026 [S1]
Evidence Household and subsistence archaeology

Daily work is more visible than named political institutions.

c. 1600-700 BCE [S1] [S2]
Social interpretation Historically specific

Status variation cannot be equated automatically with modern caste.

Current interpretation [S2] [S3]
Sequência histórica

Uma cronologia breve e documentada

Estes marcos servem de orientação e não constituem uma história completa.

  1. Village occupation develops

    Houses and subsistence remains document sustained settlement.

    [S1] [S2]

  2. Jorwe-period practices expand

    Ceramics, storage, craft, and architecture show changing household organization.

    [S1] [S3]

  3. Economy and settlement respond to stress

    Environmental and subsistence evidence supports local reorganization rather than a simple population story.

    [S2] [S3]

  4. Large-scale excavation and analysis

    Research built a detailed household and subsistence archive that continues to be reassessed.

    [S1] [S2]
Cultura e língua

Famílias, subsistência, trabalho, escrita, língua, crenças, artesanato e mobilidade

Línguas mencionadas neste perfil

  • No locally written language corpus identified

Família linguística: Unknown from archaeological evidence

House forms and storage changed across phases.

Plant and animal remains illuminate everyday labor.

Burial variation does not map automatically onto modern caste.

Monuments, elite donations, inscriptions, royal edicts, seals, coins, and monastic records are unusually visible. Farmers, pastoralists, craftspeople, women, children, forest and mobile communities, enslaved or bonded people, migrants, and most spoken languages appear less evenly and must not be erased by elite archives.

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    Taxila

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    Excavations at Inamgaon

    Archaeological Survey of India archive at IGNCA · National archaeology report · Institutional excavation report

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    Deccan College archaeological research

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    Indian Archaeology - A Review

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Revisión editorial: 4 agosto 2026

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