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DOI	10.1016/j.ara.2019.100163
	New evidence of early Iron Age to Medieval settlements from the southern fringe of Thar Desert (western Great Rann of Kachchh), India: Implications to climate-culture co-evolution
	Sarkar, Anindya 1; Mukherjee, Arati Deshpande 2; Sharma, Shubhra 3,6; Sengupta, Torsa 1; Ram, F.1; Bera, M. K.1; Bera, Subir 4; Biswas, Oindrila 4; Thakkar, M. G.5; Chauhan, G.5; Yadava, M. G.3; Shukla, A. D.3; Juyal, Navin 3
通讯作者	Sarkar, Anindya
来源期刊	ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN ASIA
ISSN	2352-2267
EISSN	2352-2275
出版年	2020
卷号	21
英文摘要	Two hitherto unexplored settlements at Karim Shahi and Vigakot are reported from the uninhabited hyper-arid region of the western Great Rann of Kachchh (GRK), located near southern fringe of Thar Desert, Gujarat, NW India. The archaeological evidence, supported by radiocarbon and optical chronology indicate presence of settlement from the Early Iron Age to Early Historic (similar to 3100-2300 years B.P.) and Historic to Medieval (similar to 1500-900 years B.P.) periods. This would imply that following the Harappan decline, the GRK was still a hospitable terrain for the sustenance of human settlements' during the Early Iron Age. Isotopic and microbotanical evidence indicate that relatively higher rainfall than today sustained the hydrological system until around the Medieval period. We propose that the early withdrawal of the late Holocene Inter Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) and resultant monsoon decline accounts for the abandonment of settlement in the western (Sindh-Baluchistan) domain. As a consequence, the rivers in the western domain dried early, while the fluvial system in the southern/eastern domain (Sorath/Cholistan in Gujarat/Ghaggar-Hakra-Nara interfluve) was sustained due to monsoonal rain at least up to 1600 years B.P. The settlements were subsequently disrupted due to a combination of hyper-arid climate and infrequent tectonic activity sometime between the late Medieval and recent time. The settlement migration in the southern/eastern domain, as far into the Rann and desert fringe during this period was possibly a nonpareil ancient analogue of modern climate refugee and refugia (Warner, 2011; Morelli et al., 2016) induced by anthropogenic climate change.
英文关键词	Karim Shahi Vigakot Thar desert Rann of Kachchh Iron Age Medieval Monsoon
类型	Article
语种	英语
国家	India
收录类别	AHCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000522968900005
WOS关键词	ARABIAN SEA ; STABLE-ISOTOPE ; HOLOCENE ; MONSOON ; VEGETATION ; INDICATORS ; SEDIMENTS ; DYNAMICS ; GUJARAT ; CARBON
WOS类目	Archaeology
WOS研究方向	Archaeology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/319409
作者单位	1.Indian Inst Technol, Dept Geol & Geophys, Kharagpur 721302, W Bengal, India; 2.Deccan Coll Post Grad & Res Inst, Pune 411006, Maharashtra, India; 3.Phys Res Lab Navrangpura, Ahmadabad 380009, Gujarat, India; 4.Univ Calcutta, Dept Bot, Kolkata 700019, India; 5.KSKV Kachchh Univ, Dept Earth & Environm Sci, Kachchh 370001, Bhu, India; 6.IISER Mohali, Dept Earth & Environm Sci, Mohali 140306, India
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Sarkar, Anindya,Mukherjee, Arati Deshpande,Sharma, Shubhra,et al. New evidence of early Iron Age to Medieval settlements from the southern fringe of Thar Desert (western Great Rann of Kachchh), India: Implications to climate-culture co-evolution[J],2020,21.
APA	Sarkar, Anindya.,Mukherjee, Arati Deshpande.,Sharma, Shubhra.,Sengupta, Torsa.,Ram, F..,...&Juyal, Navin.(2020).New evidence of early Iron Age to Medieval settlements from the southern fringe of Thar Desert (western Great Rann of Kachchh), India: Implications to climate-culture co-evolution.ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN ASIA,21.
MLA	Sarkar, Anindya,et al."New evidence of early Iron Age to Medieval settlements from the southern fringe of Thar Desert (western Great Rann of Kachchh), India: Implications to climate-culture co-evolution".ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN ASIA 21(2020).