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This thesis is a study of the Iron Age / megalithic burial sites of central Kerala, south
India. The thesis organizes the scattered information we have on the Iron Age burials of
central Kerala alongside the theoretical studies on the same, so as to identify the general
trends and the major gaps. Specifically it takes up the problematic of spatial
organization, a largely ignored theme in the studies on the Iron Age of Kerala. The base
assumption of the work is that space is a dynamic concept that is experientially
constituted and can be restructured. Spaces, especially symbolic architectural spaces
like megalithic monuments, may represent power in terms of visual dimensions of
domination, through visibility, by the division of space, by the privilege of inclusion, or
by exclusion from the knowledge repre W
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are examined in order to see how space was organized by the builders of the monuments
at inter regional, inter-site and intra site levels. The thesis is a pilot study that initiates
an effort to bring the concepts of spatial organisation and landscape relations to the
centre of the discussion on the Iron Age of Kerala, and offers certain practical
guidelines to generate data that facilitates such a discussion
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Arqueologia