Abstract
As far as the Neolithic period is concerned, Khasi and Jaintia hills of Meghalaya have revealed a good number of Neolithic sites on the evidence of surface finds. The typo-technology of the tools recovered of from these finds showed uniformity throughout Khasi-Jaintia hills. The paper focuses briefly on the findings from two excavated sites; the site of Lawnongthroh, which was briefly reported in an archaeological journal, and a report from an ongoing excavation at Myrkhan Neolithic Sites, both located in East Khasi hills district of Meghalaya. The sites have been dated through AMS and conventional C14 dates. Lawnongthroh is a habitation site and the site of Myrkhan showed a mixture of both a factory and habitation site. The two site offer closer insight on the typo-technological pattern of Neolithic materials from the region.
Highlights
The Khasi-Jaintia Hills of the central Meghalaya plateau inhabited by the Khasi-Pnar community is unique from an ethnographic point of view
During the last three years, two Neolithic sites were tested through small scale excavations to ascertain a chronological and cultural contexts of the surface finds from Khasi and Jaintia hills (Mitri Marco, 2009)
* Union Chriatian College, IN † Cotton College, IN Corresponding author: Marco Mitri the archeological context. Since both the sites have been dated, the archaeological evidences have greatly helped to shed some light into relationship between the archaeological data and the genetic-linguistic hypothesis associated with the ethnographic population of Khasi-Jaintia hills
Summary
Preliminary Report on the Excavations of Neolithic sites from Khasi Hills Meghalaya. As far as the Neolithic period is concerned, Khasi and Jaintia hills of Meghalaya have revealed a good number of Neolithic sites on the evidence of surface finds. The typo-technology of the tools recovered of from these finds showed uniformity throughout Khasi-Jaintia hills. The paper focuses briefly on the findings from two excavated sites; the site of Lawnongthroh, which was briefly reported in an archaeological journal, and a report from an ongoing excavation at Myrkhan Neolithic Sites, both located in East Khasi hills district of Meghalaya. Lawnongthroh is a habitation site and the site of Myrkhan showed a mixture of both a factory and habitation site. The two site offer closer insight on the typo-technological pattern of Neolithic materials from the region
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