Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c12.35

c12.35

The sum of the evidence from the skulls, then, shows that in the Harappā Culture there was, first, the aboriginal Proto-Australoid type, perhaps then, as now, ranking among the ‘under-dogs’ of the social system; second, the predominant Mediterraneans, presumably the main contributors of the agricultural and urban features of the whole Western Indian prehistoric world, and with them probably the short-headed Alpine element; thirdly, an occasional ‘foreigner’ from the north-east – the hill-country of Nepal or Assam, or beyond, possibly from China itself – but he is perhaps present as an invader.