Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c10.52

c10.52

But should we not therefore place somewhere within these dates the Hissar III and Anau III settlements and the cemeteries at Shah Tepe, Turang Tepe, and in the Hissar site itself? The grey-ware technique is very ancient in Asia Minor, and with the barbarian inroads into Mesopotamia, known from documentary evidence, actual objects could be looted or craftsmen induced to serve under barbarian potentates in a time of trouble. Apart from the normal course of peace-time trade, the sudden acquisition of wealth in Sumerian styles by the northern nomads may reflect raiding and land-piracy along the caravan routes or even across the frontiers into Mesopotamia at a time when its rich civilization was temporarily weakened by internal disruption. In this context the grey-ware settlements at Hissar and Anau are likely to be Akkadian at the earliest.∗ As we shall see, there is reason to connect these cultures with the dispersion of Indo-European speaking tribes in the early second millennium B.C. The probable chronological relationships discussed above are summarized in Table I (p. 65).