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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Cherrapunji
Country: India Type: Standing Stones
Nearest Town: Mawsynram  Nearest Village: Cherrapunji
Latitude: 25.300000N  Longitude: 91.700000E
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4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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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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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
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2co-ordinates of the nearest village
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Cherrapunji submitted by Creative Commons : Standing stones, (Maw bin nah)below Cherrapunji (Sorrha) Meghalaya India Date December 2007 Author: Bogman Site in India (Vote or comment on this photo)
India is rich in megalithic sites. In Cherrapunji, Meghalaya, India, are some imposing standing stones.
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Megalithic Cultural tradition amongst the Khasi and Jaintia tribes of Northeast India by Andy B on Tuesday, 24 November 2015
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The term ‘megalith’ may be explained as ‘a grave or memorial erected in stone, whether dressed or in its natural formcontaining, enclosing or erected over the funerary assemblage’. Megalithic culture has no regional bounds as its cultural remnants are found all over the world. In the neighbourhood of the Indian sub-continent, the presence of this culture is noticed in Iran and Baluchistan, extending up to Pakistan. In northern India, this culture is sporadic in occurrence as compared to south India.

http://www.academia.edu/8240328/Megalithic_Cultural_tradition_amongst_the_Khasi_and_Jaintia_tribes_of_North-_East_India
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Megaliths, Types, and its Living Traditions Among the Jaintias of Northeastern India by Andy B on Tuesday, 24 November 2015
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Megaliths, Types, and its Living Traditions Among the Jaintias of
Northeastern India by Queenbala Marak

The Jaintias of India are a group of people who are even today known to use megaliths in their regular and ceremonial lives. One of the oldest villages with such traditions is a village named Nangbah in Jaintia Hills District in the state of Meghalaya. The present paper is an outcome of a study done on the megalithic remains in Nangbah village and its associated cultural practices in December-January 2010

Interestingly the megaliths number over five hundred, and can be classified into different types based on morphology and function.

More interesting is the cultural meanings involved therein. These structures are not only an indication of living practices such as veneration of the dead, and abode of the village gods and goddesses, but also reiterates the social structure of their society - that of matriliny.

JOURNAL OF INDO-PACIFIC ARCHAEOLOGY 32 (2012): 45-53
https://journals.lib.washington.edu/index.php/BIPPA/article/viewFile/10643/12325
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Re: More on Meghalayan megaliths by tuhiram on Tuesday, 13 March 2012
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last 30 years studing the area calld kachch(kutch)gujrat,india on 23.5(line of cencer).found so many sites pre and past megalithic time.need healp for scientific study guidance from archiology expearts.wellcome.dd.tuhiram
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More on Meghalayan megaliths by Andy B on Monday, 09 January 2012
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More on Meghalayan megaliths here
http://www.megalithicsites.co.uk/Meghalaya.html

including
Noncet Market.
Nartiang Market.
Lumsohpetbneng.
Lumsohptbneng 2.
Lumsohptbneng 3.
Ummonoi Living Root Bridge.

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