CIST BURIALS OF THE KUMAUN HIMALAYAS

In the Kumaun region of Uttar Pradesh, India, on the southern slopes o f the Himalaya are cist burials, as well as megalithic monuments. Radi ocarbon dates from the cists now hint at their going back to the 3rd m illennium BC, and linguistic affinities would associate them with earl y Indo-European migrations into the western and central Himalaya regio ns.