The Birth of Indian Civilization: India and Pakistan Before 500 B.C.

already ancient animals appears Archaeological associated axes Baluchistan black-and-red blades bones brick bronze burial cattle Central India century Chalcolithic CHAPTER cities civilization clear common comparable considerable continuity copper cores culture decoration discovered distinctive district earlier earliest Early east eastern evidence examples excavations Figure finds flakes further Ganges graves grey Harappan hills Historic houses important indicate Indus industry interest Iron Age kind known Late Stone Age later less levels major material Middle Stone Age Mohenjo-daro Mundigak Neolithic objects occupation painted Pakistan pattern perhaps period phase plains Plate Pleistocene points possible pottery pre-Harappan present probably produced Punjab radiocarbon range recent recorded region remains reported represented river rock seals seems seen sequence settlements similar sometimes southern subcontinent suggests surface techniques throughout trade valley ware western whole