Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c10.50

c10.50

We shall have to reconsider all these sites again when we come to deal with the events following the break-up of the Harappā Culture in India in Chapter VI, but for the present the problem is - what is the date of such settlements as that of Hissar III? It is clear that a great many of the objects found there have close parallels among Early Dynastic Sumerian metal-work, ornaments and other features, and this has led certain archaeologists to regard the date of Hissar III as approximating to that of Early Dynastic - not much after 2800 B.C., and with Hissar III one must take, for instance, Anau III. But this view seems to me very hard to substantiate, and further difficulties will be seen when we come to deal with the Harappā Culture and the succeeding events in India.