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South Asia (East India) · Neolithic Culture

Chirand Neolithic Culture

c. 2500–1345 BCE

Overview

Early agricultural settlement in Bihar; rice cultivation and sedentary life.

Chirand Neolithic Culture

Single-site Neolithic culture on the northern bank of the Ganga near the Ghaghara confluence in Bihar. Evidence of rice, wheat, and barley cultivation; bone tools; and polished stone celts. One of the earliest farming communities in the middle Ganga plain.

Territory Phases

  1. Chirand Neolithic2500 BCE – 1345 BCE

    Early agricultural settlement in Bihar on the northern bank of the Ganga near the Ghaghara confluence. Evidence of rice, wheat, barley, and legume cultivation; circular wattle-and-daub pit dwellings; characteristic bone and polished stone tools. One of the earliest farming communities in the middle Ganga plain.

Sources

  1. Hand-drawn polygon
  2. Allchin, B. & Allchin, R. (1982) The Rise of Civilization in India and Pakistan
  3. IAR (Indian Archaeology - A Review) excavation reports
  4. Sharma, G.R. (1980) History to Prehistory: Archaeology of the Ganga Valley