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Assam Megaliths

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

J. H. Hutton
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Assam is one of the very few remaining areas in which rude megalithic monuments are still erected and, like the most notable of the others—Madagascar—is on the fringe of the diffusion area of Indonesian civilization. Far apart as the two countries are, rough stone monuments are in both associated with a cult of the dead; both areas have cultural connexions with the Pacific. This paper, however, deals only with Assam, and its purpose is to give a brief account of the megalithic work existing there and thus to throw some light, perhaps, on the purposes and methods which may have been responsible for similar work in the prehistoric past of other countries.

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Antiquity , Volume 3 , Issue 11 , September 1929 , pp. 324 - 338
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1929 

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