An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c45.348

v2.c45.348

A comparative study of the Neolithic culture of Sarutaru with the ‘ethnographic present’ of the existing societies in the hills in the same geographical area reveals a cultural continuum from the Neolithic period down to the present. The present tribal societies practise a method of shifting cultivation called *jhum*. The agricultural implements they use at present are similar in type and form to the neolithic hoes, except that stone is replaced by metal. The continuity owes to a large extent to the unproductive terrain which they have inherited from their Neolithic predecessors.