Developed from an ethno archaeological approach, the book Early Village Farming Culture, focused on Neolithic (as it is popularly known) cultural pattern of the states of West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa, Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura and Nagaland. This volume vividly documented Neolithic cultural remains of each and every reported sites of this vast area, however stray its occurrence may be. These dumb remains are further corroborated with relevant ethnographic accounts to reconstruct different facets of the culture in discussion. Every available resource that ranges from material culture to religion is scanned in the light of ancient cultural remains or traditions survived among present day tribal folks to deduce considerable understanding of this crucial phase of human history. Hopefully this challenging Endeavour of the author, to give a better shape to Neolithic culture of the region, will prove itself to be a thought provoking work in generating academic interest and inspiration to pursue more such ventures for the development of Indian archaeology.
In both the states of East and North East India rice is the staple crop. This area is witness to diverse system of cropping. It ranges from shifting, terrace and to flat land cultivation. Each system has got its own mechanism and technique. Though shifting cultivation is considered as a primitive one, it involves elaborate understanding of the environmental potentiality. Terrace cultivation in the North east is a phenomenon in itself. The example of the Apatanis may be given. This tribe of Arunachal Pradesh has excelled in terrace cultivation.
An effective village-farming way of life had been achieved in certain portions of South-Western Asia by at least 7000 B.C.E. The level of nascent food producing is best reflected in the archaeological materials of the Neptunian group in Palestine Syro-Lebanese littoral and parts of its hinterland, and by the Karim Shahir group in Iraqi and Iranian Kurdistan. In India, knowledge of the development stages that lead to an early village farming settlement is still not complete.
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