1 History & Culture · 1.1.1 Prehistoric India

1.1.1.4 Chalcolithic cultures and megalithic burials

Chalcolithic villages used copper along with stone and farmed in the semi-arid zones of Rajasthan, Malwa and Maharashtra; megalithic builders of the peninsula buried their dead under large stones and used iron.

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  • Chalcolithic
  • Ahar-Banas
  • Malwa
  • Jorwe
  • Inamgaon
  • Daimabad
  • copper hoard
  • megaliths
  • Brahmagiri
  • Adichanallur
  • cist
  • dolmen

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