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1. Frontiers of Anthropology

2. Sunday, March 20, 2011
Pretty Ladies and Indus Script
Gordon Eckholm was the main author who brought
cultural diffusion back into the mainstream of Science
in the 1960s with articles published in the
and other journals.

3. Basically he recognised that the use of various
decorative motifs were common to
and
including "cherubic"figures, sea monsters or
makaras with spouts of water or vines issuing out of
their mouths, lotuses and decorative bands with
double-lined borders and decorative curls.
In a collection of articles written about the state of
Archaeology in 1964 published at Rice University and
repeatedin An Introduction to the Study of
Southwestern Archaeology, Eckholm and his
asociates mentioned multiple probable transpacific
contacts starting as early as the introduction of
Pottery to South America from the Jomonic period of
Japan as early as 3000 BC and then again
intermittent cultural packages transmitted across the
Pacific at later dates. One definite set of new traits
seems to have been transmitted from Southeast Asia
directly across the Pacific before 250 BC and there
are reasons to say that it must have been established
before 500 BC. The information was credited to
Estrada and Meggers, 1961 and the traits included
pottery neck-rests; pottery models of houses on stilts
(piles) and with saddle-shaped roofs, seated figurines
with their legs folded one on top of the other, pottery
representations of sick patients tied to their beds,
pottery ear-plugs, polished red pottery, pottery net-
weights, stone and pottery pendants in the shape of
boar's tusks

4. and (from Thor Heyerdahl independantly) at least one
instance of babyrusa (Celebes wild hog) tusks found
in a Peruvian grave. associated with these traits may
also be the use of the coolie-yoke, foot-plow, and
graduated pan-pipes, possibly even the lost-wax
method of copper or bronze casting and the use of
batiks (resist-dyeing)
This exchange must have gone on before the general
spread of the Dong-son brass drums as trade items in
Indonesia and yet has distinct resemblances to some
of the cultural items in use by the Dongson trade
network and probably the Old Megalithic probably
arising in (Tamil) Southern India originally. However
this wave follows on an older and much more
interesting cultural exchange which must have gone
on between India
or
in the where a whole array of
identifiable Indian decorative traits superimposed
itself on an older and quite separate Olmec tradition.
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