Chirand, the Glossary
Chirand is an archaeological site in the Saran district of Bihar, India, situated on the northern bank of the Ganga River.[1]
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- Archaeological sites in Bihar
- Villages in Saran district
Agate
Agate is the banded variety of chalcedony, which comes in a wide variety of colors.
Archaeological site
An archaeological site is a place (or group of physical sites) in which evidence of past activity is preserved (either prehistoric or historic or contemporary), and which has been, or may be, investigated using the discipline of archaeology and represents a part of the archaeological record.
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Archaeological Survey of India
The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) is an Indian government agency that is responsible for archaeological research and the conservation and preservation of cultural historical monuments in the country.
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Ānanda
Ānanda (Pali and Sanskrit: आनन्द; 5th4th century BCE) was the primary attendant of the Buddha and one of his ten principal disciples.
Barasingha
The barasingha (Rucervus duvaucelii), sometimes barasinghe, also known as the swamp deer, is a deer species distributed in the Indian subcontinent.
Basalt
Basalt is an aphanitic (fine-grained) extrusive igneous rock formed from the rapid cooling of low-viscosity lava rich in magnesium and iron (mafic lava) exposed at or very near the surface of a rocky planet or moon.
Bengal
Geographical distribution of the Bengali language Bengal (Bôṅgo) or endonym Bangla (Bāṅlā) is a historical geographical, ethnolinguistic and cultural term referring to a region in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal.
Bhimbetka rock shelters
The Bhimbetka rock shelters are an archaeological site in central India that spans the Paleolithic and Mesolithic periods, as well as the historic period.
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Bihar
Bihar is a state in Eastern India.
Black and red ware
Black and red ware (BRW) is a South Asian earthenware, associated with the neolithic phase, Harappa, Bronze Age India, Iron Age India, the megalithic and the early historical period.
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Brahmagiri archaeological site
Brahmagiri is an archaeological site located in the Chitradurga district of the state of Karnataka, India.
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Bubalus
Bubalus is a genus of Asiatic bovines that was proposed by Charles Hamilton Smith in 1827.
Burzahom archaeological site
The Burzahom archaeological site is located in the Srinagar district of the Kashmir Valley of Jammu and Kashmir, India.
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Carp
The term carp (carp) is a generic common name for numerous species of freshwater fish from the family Cyprinidae, a very large clade of ray-finned fish mostly native to Eurasia.
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Chalcedony
Chalcedony is a cryptocrystalline form of silica, composed of very fine intergrowths of quartz and moganite.
Chalcolithic
The Chalcolithic (also called the Copper Age and Eneolithic) was an archaeological period characterized by the increasing use of smelted copper.
Chero dynasty
The Chero dynasty or Chyavana dynasty was a polity that ruled the northern regions of the Indian subcontinent, corresponding to the present-day Indian states of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, and Jharkhand, after the fall of the Pala Empire; their rule lasted from the 12th century CE to the middle of the 15th century.
Chert
Chert is a hard, fine-grained sedimentary rock composed of microcrystalline or cryptocrystalline quartz, the mineral form of silicon dioxide (SiO2).
Chhapra
Chhapra (ISO: Chaparā) is a city and headquarters of the Saran District in the Indian state of Bihar.
Chital
The chital or cheetal (Axis axis), also known as the spotted deer, chital deer and axis deer, is a deer species native to the Indian subcontinent.
Elephant
Elephants are the largest living land animals.
Ficus religiosa
Ficus religiosa or sacred fig is a species of fig native to the Indian subcontinent and Indochina that belongs to Moraceae, the fig or mulberry family.
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Gandaki River
The Gandaki River, also known as the Narayani and Gandak, is one of the major rivers in Nepal and a left-bank tributary of the Ganges in India.
Ganges
The Ganges (in India: Ganga,; in Bangladesh: Padma). "The Ganges Basin, known in India as the Ganga and in Bangladesh as the Padma, is an international river which goes through India, Bangladesh, Nepal and China." is a trans-boundary river of Asia which flows through India and Bangladesh. The -long river rises in the western Himalayas in the Indian state of Uttarakhand.
Ghaghara
The Ghaghara River, also known as the Karnali River in Nepal, Mapcha Tsangpo in Tibet, and the lower Ghaghara in Awadh is known as the Sarayu River, is a perennial trans-boundary river that originates in the northern slopes of the Himalayas in the Tibetan Plateau, cuts through the Himalayas in Nepal and joins the Sharda River at Brahmaghat in India.
Glossary of archaeology
This page is a glossary of archaeology, the study of the human past from material remains.
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Granite
Granite is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase.
Hindus
Hindus (also known as Sanātanīs) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism, also known by its endonym Sanātana Dharma.
India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
Iron Age
The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three historical Metal Ages, after the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age.
ISO 3166-2:IN
ISO 3166-2:IN is the entry for India in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.
Jasper
Jasper, an aggregate of microgranular quartz and/or cryptocrystalline chalcedony and other mineral phases, is an opaque, impure variety of silica, usually red, yellow, brown or green in color; and rarely blue.
Karnataka
Karnataka (ISO), also known colloquially as Karunāḍu, is a state in the southwestern region of India.
Kashmir
Kashmir is the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent.
Kārtika (month)
Kārtika (কার্তিক Kartik, Bhojpuri: kātik, Kārtika, Kārttika, Kārtak,, Maithili: कातिक,, कार्त्तिक,,, கார்த்திகை) is the eighth month of the Hindu calendar, which falls in October and November of the Gregorian calendar.
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Madhya Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh (meaning 'central province') is a state in central India.
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Microlith
A microlith is a small stone tool usually made of flint or chert and typically a centimetre or so in length and half a centimetre wide.
Mosque
A mosque, also called a masjid, is a place of worship for Muslims.
Nāga
In various Asian religious traditions, the Nagas are a divine, or semi-divine, race of half-human, half-serpent beings that reside in the netherworld (Patala), and can occasionally take human or part-human form, or are so depicted in art.
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Neolithic
The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Greek νέος 'new' and λίθος 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Europe, Asia and Africa.
Oryza sativa
Oryza sativa, having the common name Asian cultivated rice, is the much more common of the two rice species cultivated as a cereal, the other species being O. glaberrima, African rice.
Pala Empire
The Pāla Empire (r. 750–1161 CE) was an imperial power during the post-classical period in the Indian subcontinent, which originated in the region of Bengal.
Pig
The pig (Sus domesticus), also called swine (swine) or hog, is an omnivorous, domesticated, even-toed, hoofed mammal.
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Pilaster
In architecture, a pilaster is both a load-bearing section of thickened wall or column integrated into a wall, and a purely decorative element in classical architecture which gives the appearance of a supporting column and articulates an extent of wall.
Quartzite
Quartzite is a hard, non-foliated metamorphic rock which was originally pure quartz sandstone.
Radiocarbon dating
Radiocarbon dating (also referred to as carbon dating or carbon-14 dating) is a method for determining the age of an object containing organic material by using the properties of radiocarbon, a radioactive isotope of carbon.
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Rajasthan
Rajasthan (lit. 'Land of Kings') is a state in northwestern India.
Revelganj
Rivilganj is a town and one of the oldest nagar panchayat in Saran district in the Indian state of Bihar.
Rhinoceros
A rhinoceros (rhinoceros or rhinoceroses), commonly abbreviated to rhino, is a member of any of the five extant species (or numerous extinct species) of odd-toed ungulates in the family Rhinocerotidae; it can also refer to a member of any of the extinct species of the superfamily Rhinocerotoidea.
Saran district
Saran district is one of the 38 districts of Indian state of Bihar.
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Sarcophagus
A sarcophagus (sarcophagi or sarcophaguses) is a coffin, most commonly carved in stone, and usually displayed above ground, though it may also be buried.
Sheep
Sheep (sheep) or domestic sheep (Ovis aries) are a domesticated, ruminant mammal typically kept as livestock.
Sone River
Sone River, also spelt Son River, is a perennial river located in central India.
South Asia
South Asia is the southern subregion of Asia, which is defined in both geographical and ethnic-cultural terms.
The Buddha
Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha ('the awakened'), was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism.
The Imperial Gazetteer of India
The Imperial Gazetteer of India was a gazetteer of the British Indian Empire, and is now a historical reference work.
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Turtle
Turtles are reptiles of the order Testudines, characterized by a special shell developed mainly from their ribs.
Wattle and daub
Wattle and daub is a composite building method used for making walls and buildings, in which a woven lattice of wooden strips called "wattle" is "daubed" with a sticky material usually made of some combination of wet soil, clay, sand, animal dung and straw.
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William Wilson Hunter
Sir William Wilson Hunter (15 July 18406 February 1900) was a Scottish historian, statistician, a compiler and a member of the Indian Civil Service.
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See also
Archaeological sites in Bihar
- Archaeological Museum of Bodhgaya
- Baliraajgadh
- Barabar Caves
- Basarh
- Bulandi Bagh
- Chirand
- Cyclopean Wall of Rajgir
- Giriyak Stupa
- Gopika Cave Inscription
- Jalalgarh Fort
- Jivakarama vihara
- Kesaria
- Kesaria Stupa
- Krimila
- Kukkutarama
- Lauriya Araraj
- List of Monuments of National Importance in Bihar
- List of State Protected Monuments in Bihar
- Lomas Rishi Cave
- Munger Fort
- Nalanda mahavihara
- Rampurva capitals
- Rohtas Fort, India
- Saptaparni Cave
- Silk Road sites in India
- Sitamarhi Cave
- Son Bhandar Caves
- Vadathika Cave Inscription
- Vaishali (ancient city)
- Vikramashila
Villages in Saran district
- Bahuara, Saran district
- Bhagwatpur
- Chirand
- Dhobwal
- Dumari, Saran district
- Eksar
- Ganauli
- Gandar
- Hardas Chak, Saran
- Inai
- Kalyanpur, Saran district
- List of villages in Saran district
- List of villages in Sonpur tehsil
- Mohaddipur
- Narayanpur (234040)
- Narayanpur (234060)
- Narayanpur, Manjhi block
- Narayanpur, Taraiya block
- Nayagaon, Bihar
- Pojhi Kapoor
- Salempur, Saran
- Shikarpur, Sonepur
- Sisai
- Sonauli, Bihar
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirand
, Sarcophagus, Sheep, Sone River, South Asia, The Buddha, The Imperial Gazetteer of India, Turtle, Wattle and daub, William Wilson Hunter.