Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c10.17

c10.17

These sites, and that at Mersin in Cilicia (known in less detail) do show in a very interesting manner just that transition from a hunting, semi-nomadic way of life to that of the settled agriculturalist that one might expect, and in Baluchistan a settlement of precisely this type, though not necessarily of such great antiquity, has been found as the lowest occupation in the Rana Ghundai tell in the Zhob Valley. We shall see that in India we have constantly to be on our guard against making comparisons between the local cultures there, and those which seem comparable in Mesopotamia and Persia, and then considering that this implies contemporaneity in the two widely separated areas.