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Submitted by bat400 on Sunday, 10 February 2013  Page Views: 2752

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Chaibasa
Country: India
NOTE: This site is 24.274 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Standing Stones
Nearest Town: Chaibasa
Latitude: 22.570000N  Longitude: 85.820000E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Standing Stones in Singhbhum [District], South Jharkhand.
Subhashis Das writes: This post is in actuality a tribute to Chaibasa, a town in Jharkhand in East India which has been unknowingly celebrating megalithism since many centuries.
Tall menhirs begin to appear once you enter Singhbhum [District] and even you are quite far from the town. And as you come close you can see tall menhirs dotting the countryside.

Tall menhirs begin to appear once you enter Singhbhum [District] and even you are quite far from the town. And as you come close you can see tall menhirs dotting the countryside.

This is Ho country. Anthropologically speaking Hos are proto austroloid Kolarian people; a sister tribe of the Mundas and they are a megalithic lot too. They are believed to have entered the region of Singhbhum in South Jharkhand pretty late. Therefore their monuments, the megaliths are assumed to be relatively newer, not going beyond 500/600 years.

Enter any Ho house; you are bound to confront megalithic burial slabs in their courtyard. As it is in their courtyards they would bury their ancestors and on it they would place large burial slabs known to them as Sasandiris. Later they would raise tall menhirs in their honour called Bidiris.

-- Subhashis Das

Source: www.megalithindia.in.

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