Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c10.25

c10.25

By the time the earliest agricultural communities were being founded in Western India it is unlikely that the lack of copper tools in them means anything more than poverty, and that their ‘stone age’ was forced on them by sheer lack of purchasing power. At all events it is not long before Indian metallurgy gets under way, using local copper and also tin ores, and in general terms all the prehistoric Indian cultures we shall have to deal with are formally in a Bronze Age.