Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c11.11

c11.11

It is clear that such seasonal migration is hardly compatible with the formation of ‘tells’ which may rise to a hundred feet and more above the surrounding countryside, in impressive witness of long-enduring continuous settlement. In the prehistoric past the population must have been enabled, by successful agriculture, to live in some prosperity in those same valleys which today support only the most scanty and nomadic human occupation under wretched conditions.