Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c12.32

c12.32

The archaeological evidence shows that this long-headed Mediterranean type is everywhere in Western Asia associated with the earliest agricultural settlements: at Sialk or Al 'Ubaid, Anau or Alishar. The Al 'Ubaid skulls show singularly close analogies to those from Mohenjo-daro, and their 'Afghanian' characteristics have been remarked upon. Just as the evidence from the painted pottery of Baluchistan and that lying behind the painted wares in the Harappā Culture points to an eventual homogeneity among these various simple agricultural economies, so the actual physical type shows an essential ethnic community over the whole area, and the appearance of these early 'Mediterranean' folk in prehistoric India must be related to expansion from the west.