An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c19.s1.19

v1.c19.s1.19

With more primary sites excavated we have also some idea of the intra-site activity patterns. At BAGOR and TILWARA people paved floors with stone slabs and pebbles on the loose sandy surface. Circular arrangements of stones suggest round wattle and daub huts or windbreaks. At SARAI NAHAR RAI rectangular floors of rammed earth and burnt clay nodules were made. Post-holes indicate timber superstructures. In a shelter at BHIMBETKA a stone wall, 6×1 m, was made possibly to partition off the shelter into separate areas. At BAGOR small floors, 40 to 70 cm across, were made by compact stone paving for butchering animal carcasses. Both on open-air sites and in rock-shelters the dead were buried within the settlement and offerings were provided in the form of bone tools and ornaments, antler pieces, stone rubbers and heamatite nodules.