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	'''Sankarjang''' (20°52’08“N; 84°59’19“E), [[Odisha]], [[India]] is an archaeological site near [[Angul]], a former cemetery and settlement with large, worked stones but no one knows what they were made for, although some people think they might have been part of a lithophone . This site was test excavated by the State Archaeology Department of Odisha after a chance find of 20 long unfinished chipped and ground, lithic bars and axes of basalt, together with human skeletal remains and metallic artifacts, by a shepherd in 1971.		'''Sankarjang''' (20°52’08“N; 84°59’19“E), [[Odisha]], [[India]] is an archaeological site near [[Angul]], a former cemetery and settlement with large, worked stones but no one knows what they were made for, although some people think they might have been part of a lithophone . This site was test excavated by the State Archaeology Department of Odisha after a chance find of 20 long unfinished chipped and ground, lithic bars and axes of basalt, together with human skeletal remains and metallic artifacts, by a shepherd in 1971.

	Archaeologists understood ground stone lithics to be typical of the [[Neolithic Period]] although they were in production later. The elegant lithics from Sankarjang resemble elaborate ones from eastern Asia and the South Seas. Such lithics played a key role in the definition of R. von [[Heine-Geldern]]’s [[Austronesian peoples\|Austronesian]] culture. The incisor teeth of nine bodies interred in the graves had a "shovel" form which suggests Mongolian affinities. The absolute chronology rests on few [[14C]] dates. Many of the stones give a resonance when struck and judging from the use-wear traces and shape, the stone bars appear to have belonged to finished and unfinished [[lithophone]]s. Yule and Bemmann thus tentatively identified the stone bars as being part of South Asia's earliest known musical instrument.		Archaeologists understood ground stone lithics to be typical of the [[Neolithic Period]] although they were in production later. The elegant lithics from Sankarjang resemble elaborate ones from eastern Asia and the South Seas. Such lithics played a key role in the definition of R. von [[Heine-Geldern]]'s [[Austronesian peoples\|Austronesian]] culture. The incisor teeth of nine bodies interred in the graves had a "shovel" form which suggests Mongolian affinities. The absolute chronology rests on few [[14C]] dates. Many of the stones give a resonance when struck and judging from the use-wear traces and shape, the stone bars appear to have belonged to finished and unfinished [[lithophone]]s. Yule and Bemmann thus tentatively identified the stone bars as being part of South Asia's earliest known musical instrument.

	==References==		==References==

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{{short description|Archaeological site near Angul, India}}
[[Image:SKG lithics.jpg|thumb|240px|Selected lithics from Sankarjang.]]
[[File:Skj09 kopie.jpg|thumb|Sonorous stones from a lithophone]]

'''Sankarjang''' (20°52’08“N; 84°59’19“E), [[Odisha]], [[India]] is an archaeological site near [[Angul]], a former cemetery and settlement with large, worked stones but no one knows what they were made for, although some people think they might have been part of a lithophone . This site was test excavated by the State Archaeology Department of Odisha after a chance find of 20 long unfinished chipped and ground, lithic bars and axes of basalt, together with human skeletal remains and metallic artifacts, by a shepherd in 1971.

Archaeologists understood ground stone lithics to be typical of the [[Neolithic Period]] although they were in production later. The elegant lithics from Sankarjang resemble elaborate ones from eastern Asia and the South Seas. Such lithics played a key role in the definition of R. von [[Heine-Geldern]]’s [[Austronesian peoples|Austronesian]] culture. The incisor teeth of nine bodies interred in the graves had a "shovel" form which suggests Mongolian affinities. The absolute chronology rests on few [[14C]] dates. Many of the stones give a resonance when struck and judging from the use-wear traces and shape, the stone bars appear to have belonged to finished and unfinished [[lithophone]]s. Yule and Bemmann thus tentatively identified the stone bars as being part of South Asia's earliest known musical instrument.

==References==
*P. Yule/B.K. Rath/K. Højgaard, Sankarjang ein metallzeitlicher Bestattungsplatz im Dhenkanal Vorgebirge des östlichen Indiens, ''Anthropos'' 84, 1989, 107–132, ISSN 0003-5572.
*P. Yule/M. Bemmann, Klangsteine aus Orissa-Die frühesten Musikinstrumente Indiens?, ''Archaeologia Musicalis'' 2.1, 1988, 41–50 (also in English und French). http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/savifadok/volltexte/2008/177/
*P. Yule/A. Hauptmann/M. Hughes, The Copper Hoards of the Indian Subcontinent: Preliminaries for an Interpretation, ''Jahrbuch des Römisch Germanischen Zentralmuseums Mainz'' 36, 1989 [1992], 193–275, ISSN 0076-2741. http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/savifadok/volltexte/2009/509/
*[[Paul Alan Yule|Paul Yule]], ''Early Historic Sites in Orissa'' (Delhi 2006), {{ISBN|81-89645-44-7}}. http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/savifadok/volltexte/2008/147/ http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/savifadok/frontdoor.php?source_opus=147&la=de

{{Lithophones}}

[[Category:Lithophones]]
[[Category:Archaeological sites in Odisha]]

==See also==
*[[List of archaeological sites by country]]
*[[Paul Alan Yule]]

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BernardoWebb158: general improve content as per guidelines further and fixed typos

->Lennart97: Disambiguated: Austronesian → Austronesian peoples