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Megalithic Tombs and other Ancient Remains in the Deccan. Papers by Colonel Meadows Taylor

1941

Two of these papers The Ancient Remains at the Village of Jivarji and Notices of Cromlechs Cairns and other Ancient Scytho-Druidical Remains in the Principality of Sorapur were published in the Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society Vols. [...] The length of two of the skeletons from the head to where the small bones of the toes were were severally the first 5 feet 7 inches the second 5 feet inches the third being undistinguishable. [...] The entire length of this skeleton was 5 feet 2 inches from the crown of the skull to the feet which had rested against the fooslab and there was a space of 4 inches beween the skull and the upright head-stone of the chest. [...] The other class of cairns which do not differ in outward appearance from the others contains large earthen pots or urns of the same description of pottery red and black which arc filled with charcoal and human ashes and portions of bones and earth evidently showing that after the burning of the dead the remains were collected and deposited in these cairns as they were deposited in the kist [...] The tumulus measured sixty feet in diameter between the circle of stones on the summit which was bare and level ; the slope southwards and eastwards from the west as the ground has a natural inclination to the south was sixty feet ; and that on the north and west where the ground rose was forty feet.
anthropology archaeology
Pages
144
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.147163
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Cover
i-ii Meadows Taylor view
Article II Ancient Remains at the Village of Jiwarji Near Ferozabad on the Bhima
1-18 Meadows Taylor view
Article IV Notices of Cromlechs Cairns and other Ancient Scytho-Druidical Remains in the Principality of Shorapur
19-87 Meadows Taylor view
Article V Description of Cairns Cromlechs Kistvaens and other Celtic. Druidical or Scythian Monuments in the Dekhan
88-120 Meadows Taylor view
Illustrations
i-xix Meadows Taylor view
Backmatter
i-i Meadows Taylor view

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