Site maintenance practices and settlement social organization in Iron Age Karnataka, India: Inferring settlement places and landscape from surface distributions of ceramic assemblage attributes |
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Authors: | Peter G. Johansen |
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Affiliation: | a Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, 6303 N.W. Marine Drive, Vancouver, Canada V6T 1Z1 |
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Abstract: | This paper investigates the spatial organization of social relations in settlement contexts through a quantitative and distributional analysis of surface ceramic attributes from Iron Age Period (1200–300 BC) archaeological sites in Southern India. The results discern variation in depositional contexts across each site, from which I infer a variety of basic settlement activity structures (e.g., site maintenance, trash disposal, residence, animal husbandry, metallurgy, ritual). I use these results, together with further analyses of artifact and feature distributions, to infer a basic suite of places, place-making practices and some of the social relations and organizational structures that produced these historically unique Iron Age settlement landscapes. |
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Keywords: | Site maintenance Settlement organization Site structure Space Place Landscape South India Iron Age Surface assemblages Attribute analysis |
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