Chera, Chola, Pandya: using archaeological evidence to identify the Tamil kingdoms of early historic South India. From: Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and thePacific | Date: September 22, 2003| Author: Abraham, Shinu A. | COPYRIGHT 2003 University of Hawaii Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

DESPITE THE AMOUNT OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH that has been carried out in South India, our understanding of the South Indian protohistoric period is still, in many ways, in its infancy. It is only recently that scholars have begun to move away from traditional culture-historical approaches and to draw on the archaeological data to answer specific questions about the processes and conditions surrounding emerging social complexity. Like many other regions of the world that possess a ...