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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: ChaibasaCountry: India
NOTE: This site is 273.012 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Standing Stones
Nearest Town: Chaibasa
Latitude: 22.570000N Longitude: 85.820000E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-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.
Note: Chaibasa, the amazing megalithic town.
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