Takalghat
Basic information
Sample name: Takalghat
Sample aka: Khapa

Reference: R. Moorti. 1985. Socio-economic aspects of megalithic Vidarbha. Puratattva 15:56-67 [ER 3229]
Geography
Country: India
State: Maharashtra

Coordinate: 20° 55' N, 78° 54' E
Basis of coordinate: based on nearby landmark
Geography comments: "on the river Krishna... in Nagpur district" (coordinate based on Takalghat)
also referred to as Khapa (see text and tables 5 and 6)
there are no geochronologic age estimates, but the Vidarbha megalithic culture eexisted from 300 to 800 BC based on calibrated radiocarbon dates on other sites (Thakuria 2014)
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Climate and habitat
Lithology: not described
Taphonomic context: human accumulation
Archaeology: burials, ceramics, metal tools
Habitat comments: there no description of the sediments
material was recovered from "burials" near "Vidarbha megaliths"
there are metal objects and pottery but no stone objects
Methods
Life forms: rodents, ungulates, birds
Sampling methods: quarry
Sample size: 288
Sampling comments: "excavated"
Metadata
Sample: 3555
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2019-09-23 13:00:34
Modified: 2019-09-23 13:00:34
Abundance distribution
9 species
2 singletons
total count 288
Fisher's α: 1.764
geometric series k: 0.5211
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.5559
Shannon's H: 1.2192
Good's u: 0.9931
⇒ extrapolate richness estimates
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