Can the<i>tinai</i>help understand the Iron Age Early Historic landscape of Tamilnadu?

Haricharan, Smriti; Keerthi, Naresh

doi:10.1080/00438243.2014.953709

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“…Megaliths, while classically associated with the Iron Age, represent a suite of cultural practices of memorialization (Morrison et al in press b) that predate the expansion of North Indian religious traditions such as Buddhism, Jainism, and forms of Hinduism, into the south. As features without a significant associated textual corpus, they remain poorly understood (Haricharan and Keerthi 2014). Still, it is clear that they continued to be built after the end of the Iron Age, possibly long after (Morrison 2009).…”

Section: The Iron Agementioning

confidence: 99%

Archaeologies of flow: Water and the landscapes of Southern India past, present, and future

Morrison

2015

Journal of Field Archaeology

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The present and future landscapes and waterscapes of South Asia consist, in part, of many residues of the past-soils, slopes, and a range of water-related infrastructure. As such, many problems related to irrigation and rural water use are directly linked to the embodied histories of this region. Beyond lineal connections, many contemporary problems such as watershed protection, erosion, reservoir siltation, and falling water tables, were also faced by agriculturalists in the past. Archaeologies of flow thus may have some bearing on the present and future as well as the past. This paper provides a review of the evidence for changes in water use over the last 5,000 years in southern India, focusing on the semi-arid interior region of Karnataka state from the Southern Neolithic (c. 3000-1200 B.C.) to the present.

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Section: The Iron Agementioning

confidence: 99%

Archaeologies of flow: Water and the landscapes of Southern India past, present, and future

Morrison

2015

Journal of Field Archaeology

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“…Though attempts to read "history" into classical Tamil poetic tropes can be a fraught process (cf. Haricharan and Keerthi, 2014), conceptions of an interplay between landscapes and the lifeways of communities who inhabit them remain foundational to people's understanding of themselves and others in relation to their environs (Daniel, 1984;Pandian, 2009).…”

Section: Cultivating the Deccan's "Dry" Zonementioning

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Crafting difference: artefacts and the politics of distinction at a South Indian well

Johal

2023

Journal of Social Archaeology

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This essay examines the relationship between artefact variability and social difference through an analysis of ceramic vessels recovered from the vicinity of a shared well used during the 12th–14th centuries CE at Maski (South India). Defined by minor yet perceptible differences in their appearance and morphology, ceramic vessels that were used and discarded in this space were more variable than contemporary assemblages excavated elsewhere at Maski, and in the region. Rather than attribute the particularities of this assemblage to the production process and its organization alone, I suggest that the distinctiveness of these containers was expedient for navigating the communal, yet fraught, space of the well. I consider historical and epigraphical material alongside the ceramic dataset at hand to propose that variability may not express or embody social difference, but be used to enact it.

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“…Given the spatial and temporal extent of megalith construction and the large degree of variation in form, it is difficult to believe that these features had uniform functions and meanings. Much work remains to be done dis-aggregating this diversity and developing better chronologies (Haricharan & Keerthi 2014), tools that will help us slice up time within the thousand years when megaliths were actively being constructed.…”

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On Putting Time in its Place: Archaeological Practice and the Politics of Time in Southern India

Morrison¹

2016

CAJ

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The work of time-making is always a work of the present, and even in its driest form, the archaeological chronology, is a political process. Archaeological practices which make time from space necessarily dissect unified material landscapes into temporal slices, ‘cuts’ of time and space that can either mute or give voice to past interactions with material landscapes, engagements sometimes called ‘the past in the past.’ Despite the fact that historical and archaeological remains in India are often central to political contestation, the structures and objects studied by archaeologists and art historians are typically viewed as straightforward exemplars of past periods, dynasties, or cultures, disappearing from gaze as they leave the period to which they ‘belong’. This article considers some forms of interaction between people and places in southern India—from ashmounds to megaliths to temples—interactions ‘out of time’ according to traditional archaeological practice, but which reveal past contestations and concerns. Such forms of landscape history require both analytical techniques such as chronologies which divide time, as well as landscape-based approaches which can heal those divisions by allowing past action ‘out of place’ to be made visible.

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Can thetinaihelp understand the Iron Age Early Historic landscape of Tamilnadu?

Cited by 6 publications

References 14 publications

Archaeologies of flow: Water and the landscapes of Southern India past, present, and future

Archaeologies of flow: Water and the landscapes of Southern India past, present, and future

Crafting difference: artefacts and the politics of distinction at a South Indian well

On Putting Time in its Place: Archaeological Practice and the Politics of Time in Southern India

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