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# An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c26.340

An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c26.340

- **Language:** English

### [v1.c26.340.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c26.340.1)

Second Glacial phase of, 19 Middle Stone Age culture, Africa, 29 Midnapur region, digging-stick weights in, 319 Mikir Hills, megalithic monument in, 120 Milankovitch, 193 Miliolites, 204-205, 208 millet see \*Eleusine coracana\* Mills, J.P., 120 \*Mimosa rubicaulis\*, 194 \*Mimusops Sp.\* (\*mulsari\*), 9 Minoan, 195 Miocene, 209, 312 Mirpur Khas (Sind), gold relic casket at, 271 mirror(s), 76, 86, 138, 265, 347-48 Mirzapur, 30, 281, 287; Harappa pottery at, 90; rock art site at, 279; rock-shelters at, 284 Misra, 24 missiles, 140, 145, 351 Mitathal, 78, 79, 289; copper rings from, 74; cultural sequence at, 90; dating of, 170; harpoons from, 74; pottery at, 231, 234; pre-Harappa culture of, 231; reserved slip technique from, 234; Sothi Ware at, 228 Mitra, P., 283 Mitra and Janapada coins, 138 \*mitradharma\*, 144 mixed economy, 47 Mizoram, 58, 59; Megalithic culture in, 120 moat, 139 Modi, human figures from, 182 Moghal Ghundai, 78; burial cairns at, 167; phallic representation from, 276 Moh, tools from, 23 Mohan Pahari, tool localities in, 58 Mohapatra, G.C., 22, 25 Mohenjo-daro, 2, 6, 7, 69, 72, 73, 77, 78, 79, 81, 82, 85, 88, 89, 90, 168, 202, 277, 328, 334, 339, 361; agricultural remains from, 319; animal figurines from, 338; animal remains at, 314; arrowheads from, 349, 354; artefacts from, 324; baths at, 293; beads from, 218, 220, 331; \*Bos namadicus\* bones at, 2, 308, 316; bronze mirrors from, 347; bronze tools at, 324; buffalo head from, 83; bulls with small hump at, 338;

### [v1.c26.340.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c26.340.2)

camel bones at, 3-4; ¹⁴ C dates for, 169, 170; cart-frames from, 335; 'Citadel' mound at, 80; combs from, 343, 345; copper armour at, 350; copper and bronze antimony rods at, 342; copper and bronze awls at, 176; copper and bronze razors at, 186; copper and bronze saws at, 186, 324; cord impression at, 71; cotton (\*Gossypium arboreum\*) at, 319; cotton scraps from, 334; dancing figurine from, 324; domesticated horse at, 4; drainage system at, 80; elephant bones at, 4; evidence of flood at, 202; evidence of potter's kilns from, 329; faience objects from, 321; faience toilet jars from, 343; faunal evidence at, 316; figure of yogi from, 86; fish-hooks from, 186; gold disc beads at, 166; \*Gossypium Sp.\* at, 7; graduated scales from, 84; graffito-marked pottery from, 359; granaries at, 85; Great Bath at, 82, 302, 303; gypsum cement at, 295; \*Hordeum vulgare\* at, 6; human figure with double-horn mask from, 182; Kharoṣṭhī inscription from, 369; knives from, 349; kohl jars at, 342; necklace from, 224; net-sinker at, 183; nude figure from, 83; Paśupati seal from, 364; phalli and ring-stones at, 276; pottery from, 71, 77, 89, 231, 359; privies at, 293, 294; scale of shell at, 187; seals from, 261, 277, 350, 364; shell compass from, 187; silver from, 327; Śiva-Paśupati from, 81; skeletal remains from, 88; skulls from, 317; \*Sorghum\* at, 7; spearheads from, 349; spindle-whorls from, 187; squat-formed dish-on-stand at, 231; steatite bust from, 83; steatite priest figure from, 83;

### [v1.c26.340.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c26.340.3)

steatite seals, beads at, 331; studs at, 223; styli from, 370; Sumerian figurines at, 339; terracotta bulls from, 83; terracotta cakes at, 188; terracotta masks from, 182; terracotta shaft-hole axes at, 176; tin-bronze from, 328; town-planning at, 73, 79, 80; toy-cart wheel at, 337; \*Triticum\* (wheat) at, 7; stone vessels at, 86, 383; weights from, 190; wells at, 303, 304 Mon inscriptions (Burma), 368 monastery, 156, 157, 160, 172, 173 monastic establishments, 149, 162, 299-301; Brahmanical, 299; Buddhist, 299-300; Jaina, 300-301 money economy, 10 Mongolia, 3, 312 Monghyr, 24 monitor lizard, 47 monkey, 83, 261, 282 Morhana Pahar, animal remains from, 37; blade burin remains from, 36; burial at, 42; Mesolithic site at, 37; sequence of industries at, 45 Mori, blades and burins at, 32 Moribetta, anthropomorphic figure at, 126 morphographic writing, 362 mortar, 56, 80, 97, 139, 144, 151, 152, 154, 186, 294, 295, 296, 298, 329 Motaduka, double circle at, 123; habitational deposits at, 122 Mota muree, stone circles at, 123 Mote-Bennur, altars at, 125, 126 mother-goddess, 35, 36, 83, 135, 141, 263, 264, 267-69, 277, 278; cult, 268-69, 278; figure of, 222; figurine of, 267, 268, 339; iconographic manifestation of, 269; plaques, 263 Moti Chandra, 269 moulds, 329, 336 Mousterian, 28 Mt. Abu, Jaina establishments at, 301 Mouttrapalaeon, terracotta sarcophagus at, 129 Muchchatla Chintamani Gavi, bone tool industry at, 34 Mughal, M.R., 72, 77 Mughal period, beads, 220; coins, 171;

### [v1.c26.340.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c26.340.4)

glass, 220 Mukhalingam, 149 Mujumdar, 292 Mula, jaw of \*Bos namadicus\* in, 309 Mula Dam, ¹⁴ C date for, 28, 170 Mula-Mutha (Pune), 31 Mula, river, 21; valley, 208 muller(s), 46, 59, 78, 98, 104, 129, 185, 244 Müller, Max, 366 Mullikadu, 61 multiple, dolmen, 130; hood stone, 129, 130 Mulwasar, \*chāya-stambhas\* from, 269 Mundas, 74, 93, 120, 293, 318 Mundigak, bronze/copper mirror at, 347; female figurines at, 77; pre-Harappa culture at, 76; \*Triticum compactum\* from, 319; urbanism at, 70 Mungapet, sarcophagus at, 275 Munn, 124, 292 Murtaziganj, 141 Murty, M.L.K., 37 \*Mus Sp.\*, 311 Muttalavadi, Neolithic head-rests at, 267 Mysore, 360, 367; Iron Age, 7; megalithic remains at, 124

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