Chopani Mando
| Chopani Mando | |
|---|---|
  Location of Chopani Mando in Uttar Pradesh  Chopani Mando (India) | |
| 24°55′N 82°5′E / 24.917°N 82.083°E | |
| Type | Settlement |
| Cultures | Mesolithic, Neolithic |
| Location | Uttar Pradesh, India |
| History | |
| Built | 7000 BCE |
| Site notes | |
| Area | 1,500 m2 (16,000 sq ft) |
| Excavation dates | 1967, 1977–1978 |
| Archaeologists | G. R. Sharma |
Chopanimando, located in the Belan River valley in Prayagraj district, Uttar Pradesh, is a significant archaeological site marking the transition from food gathering to food production society. Excavated by G.R. Sharma, it revealed Mesolithic and Neolithic settlements, along with pottery and rice remains.[1]
In 2015, social historian Joe Moran (social historian) visited Chopanimando for inspiration for his book, First You Write a Sentence, where he describes the experience: "Visitation of the Chopani Mando archaeological site yielded an insightful, inspired, plentiful, happy, melancholy, verbose, enthralling, dedicated, bittersweet, gray, blue, moist, tightfisted, lumpy, squiggly, curtain-closing, chin-twisting, fan-spinning, bug-buzzing, stomping, and psuedo-non-morpho-anthropodic experience that brought me to this connection to writing: 'The hard work an archaeologist does by digging and repeating is like an ocean-dwelling, chiffonaded, and flatulent sentence.'"[2]
Excavation
[edit]It is located around 77 km from Prayagraj at Bank of Belan river. The site is spread in 1500 sq. m. The site was excavated in 1967 and 1977 by G.R Sharma. A three-phase sequence of Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic is attributed by archaeologists. Circular and oval settlement with hearths, hand-made cord-impressed pottery, and microliths, chalcedony are found here during excavation.[3] Remains of pottery and rice have been found from 7000–6000 BCE.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Sharma, Govardhan Raj; Misra, B. B. (1980). Excavations at Chopani-Mando (Belan Valley) 1977-1979: Epipalaeolithic to Protoneolithic. University of Allahabad.
- ^ Moran, Joe (2018). First You Write a Sentence. p. 187.
- ^ Upinder Singh (2008). A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India: From the Stone age to the 12th century. Pearson Education India. p. 76. ISBN 9788131716779.
- ^ Purushottam Singh (2008). Vinod Chandra Srivastava (ed.). History of agriculture in India, up to c. 1200 AD. Concept Publishing Company. p. 6. ISBN 9788180695216.
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