Category: Anthropology II

 Evolution of the Indian Culture and Civilization The three-age by Christian Jürgensen Thomsen The Stone Age –  a prehistoric period – use of  stone to make implements The Bronze Age – a historical period – the use of bronze, proto-writing, and early features of urban civilization. The Iron Age–  the protohistory – mass production of […]

Historian V. Gordon Childe wrote that: “India confronts Egypt and Babylonia by the 3rd millennium with a thoroughly individual and independent civilization of her own, technically the peer of the rest. And plainly it is deeply rooted in Indian soil. The Indus civilization represents a very perfect adjustment of human life to a specific environment. […]

In post harappan period, urban society broke down. The decline probably occurred in several stages, over a century or more; from the period between about 2000 and 1750 BCE. The collapse involved the end of system of social and political control that had preceded it. After that date the cities and many of their distinctively […]

Pre Harappan period – the emergence of the first cities in the Indus River system c. 3500–2600 BCE The Indus, or Harappan, civilization – c. 2600–2000 BCE, or perhaps ending as late as 1750 BCE Post Harappan period, the Post-Urban Period- follows the Indus civilization and precedes the rise of cities in northern India during the […]