Kashmir and Swat During Neolithic Times – A Comparative Analysis of Material Culture Between the Sites of Two Distinct Regions

Yatoo, Mumtaz A.

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“…These perturbations in the record fall within the Late Neolithic and Megalithic archaeological phases in the Kashmir Valley 31 , where known settlement patterns are typically agricultural villages distributed on the valley flanks between ca. 1600 and 2000 m ASL 33 . A number of Neolithic settlement sites have been reported from Budgam District, to elevations of around 2100 m and within 10 km of Tosa Maidan 34 .…”

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Palaeoenvironmental proxies indicate long-term development of agro-pastoralist landscapes in Inner Asian mountains

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Yatoo

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A growing body of archaeological research on agro-pastoralist populations of the Inner Asian mountains indicates that these groups adapted various systems of mobile herding and cultivation to ecotopes across the region from as early as 5000 BP. It has been argued that these adaptations allowed the development of flexible social-ecological systems well suited to the long-term management of these mountain landscapes. At present, less attention has been paid to examining the long-term ecological legacy of these adaptations within the sedimentary or palaeoenvironmental record. Here we present sediment, palynomorph and charcoal data that we interpret as indicating agro-pastoralist environmental perturbations, taken from three cores at middle and high altitudes in the Kashmir Valley at the southern end of the Inner Asian mountains. Our data indicate spatially and temporally discontinuous patterns of agro-pastoralist land use beginning close to 4000 BP. Periods of intensification of upland herding are often coincident with phases of regional social or environmental change, in particular we find the strongest signals for agro-pastoralism in the environmental record contemporary with regionally arid conditions. These patterns support previous arguments that specialised agro-pastoralist ecologies across the region are well placed to respond to past and future climate deteriorations. Our data indicating long-term co-evolution of humans and landscape in the study area also have implications for the ongoing management of environments generally perceived as “pristine” or “wilderness”.

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Palaeoenvironmental proxies indicate long-term development of agro-pastoralist landscapes in Inner Asian mountains

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“…Ses sites, parmi lesquels Burzahom, Gufkral et Kanispora sont les sites néolithiques clefs du Kashmir, sont datés d'entre le IV e et le II e millénaires avant notre ère. Leurs cultures matérielles présentent des similitudes avec des assemblages documentés dans la région de la Swat à l'ouest au Pakistan, l'Asie Centrale et la Chine [107 : 25-26 ; 115] (Petrie et al, 2010 : 25-26 ;Yatoo, 2019).…”

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Les premiers villages agricoles de l’est du plateau Iranien à la vallée de l’Indus : état de la question

Mutin

2022

L'Anthropologie

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“…The ethnographic and archaeological profile of the Kashmir Himalayas indicates the development of pastoralism as early as 4000 BP (Spate, 2019; Yatoo, 2012). Subsequent to the domestication in the Neolithic period at 5000–3000 BP (Betts et al, 2019; Pokharia et al, 2018; Sharma, 2013), pastoralism may have developed in response to herd management and obliquely paved the way for establishing a network of cultures (Spate, 2019) via ‘Inner Asian Mountain Corridor’ (IAMC) (Frachetti, 2012).…”

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“…Archaeological research in the region has been crucial to the interpretation of the progression of domestication in the Neolithic period that has triggered a shift from agriculture to pastoralism. Tangible evidence like Kushan ceramics found in the mountain regions of Kashmir valley by Shah (2012–2013) and Yatoo (2012) has been used as substantial evidence for scholars seeking to develop cultural-historical chronologies in the area. However, the data pertaining to the studies on the material culture associated with mobile pastoralism in the region have seldom been applied to the interpretation of the socio-ecological adaptation.…”

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Ethnoarchaeology of Pastoral Transhumance in Kashmir Himalayas

Dar

Das

2023

Journal of the Anthropological Survey of India

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Despite immense ethnographic and archaeological potential, nomadic pastoralism finds not much attention from an ethnoarchaeological perspective in India. The ethnoarchaeological survey was thus undertaken among the contemporary pastoralist tribe of Bakarwal in the Kashmir Himalayan region to aid in the development of a diachronic model for seasonal transhumance. From this study, it is suggested that pastoralist communities in the northwest Himalayas retained flexible ethnic identities, dynamic settlement and subsistence patterns, and maintained trade and exchange relationships with adjacent groups over the historical period. The ethnoarchaeological analysis of Bakarwal sites in the Kashmir Himalayas has demonstrated that these sites’ structure, geographical positioning and functionality provide critical information concerning the exploitation of the landscape by the pastoral groups.

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Kashmir and Swat During Neolithic Times – A Comparative Analysis of Material Culture Between the Sites of Two Distinct Regions

Cited by 4 publications

References 3 publications

Palaeoenvironmental proxies indicate long-term development of agro-pastoralist landscapes in Inner Asian mountains

Palaeoenvironmental proxies indicate long-term development of agro-pastoralist landscapes in Inner Asian mountains

Les premiers villages agricoles de l’est du plateau Iranien à la vallée de l’Indus : état de la question

Ethnoarchaeology of Pastoral Transhumance in Kashmir Himalayas

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