Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c11.14

c11.14

Before leaving the geographical background and turning to an examination of the prehistoric cultures themselves, attention must be drawn to Lake Manchhar, which lies between the Indus and the foothills of the Kirthar Range of the Baluchi mountains near Johi. This is normally a lake about 8 to 10 miles in length, and as much in breadth, but being connected with the Indus and also receiving drainage from the hills to the west, in the inundation period it becomes enormously swollen, occupying an area of some 200