Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c10.19

c10.19

So far as India is concerned, therefore, we must look westwards for the introduction of the arts of agriculture, and it will be seen throughout this book how the Indian material can be properly understood only in terms of its general Western Asiatic setting. And as the relative chronology of the Indian prehistoric cultures is still in a provisional stage, we must continually make reference to the Mesopotamian and to a less extent the Persian sequence, using the generally agreed names of the successive phases to indicate the approximate chronological position in the absence of actual dates. Only in North Baluchistan, where the stratified sequence in the Rana Ghundai tell has been worked out, can we attempt anything of a local Indian time-scale.