Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c14.s1: Notes to Chapter VII

Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c14.s1

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Notes to Chapter VII

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The literature on the Aryans is enormous, but the best general accounts are in Cambridge History of India, Vol. 1; V. G. Childe, The *Aryans* (1926); Masson-Oursel, etc., *Ancient India and Indian Civilization* (trans. Dobie, 1934); L. de la Vallée Poussin, *Indo-européens et Indo-iraniens* ... (1936); C. S. Coon, *Races of Europe* (1939). My basis for the *Rigveda* evidence has been A. A. Macdonell and A. B. Keith, *Vedic Index of Names and Subjects* (two vols., 1912) supplemented by R. T. H. Griffith's translation, *Hymns of the Rigveda* (1896); for the religious aspect, A. B. Keith, *Religion and Philosophy of the Veda* (Harvard Oriental Series, Vols. 31-32, 1925). The Indo-European tradition is discussed by Myles Dillon in *Trans. Philolog. Soc.*, 1947, 15-24; *Proc. Brit. Acad.* xxxiii (1947) (Rhys Memorial Lecture).

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For Maikop and the South Russian cultures, see V. G. Childe, *The Dawn of European Civilization* (1939); and C. Schaeffer, *Stratigraphie Comparée* (1948); the evidence for the Aryan destruction of Harappā is discussed by R. E. M. Wheeler, *Ancient India*, no. 3 (1947), 82. For ploughs in Western Asia, C. W. Bishop in *Antiquity* x (1936), 261; horses, W. Ridgeway, *Origin and Influence of the Thoroughbred Horse* (1905); carts, *Reallexikon der Vorgeschichte*, s.v. Wagen, Djebjerg, Ohnenheim; Tacitus, *Germania* xl. The heptatonic scale is discussed by F. W. Galpin, *The Music of the Sumerians* (1937), and by E. C. Curwen, *Antiquity* xiv (1940), 347. The basic lines on which the study of the chariots must proceed are given by Sir Cyril Fox, *A Find of the Early Iron Age from Llyn Cerrig Bach* (1947) (European Iron Age evidence); for early Mesopotamian representations, V. G. Childe, *New Light on the Most Ancient East* (1934); for the Orient and the Aegean, Sir Arthur Evans, *Palace of Minos*, iv, 809; for Egypt and Homeric evidence, W. Ridgeway, *op. cit.*, and assistance from Miss Lorimer acknowledged in the preface. Bows are commented on by Evans, *Palace of Minos* ii, 48; iv, 832; *Reallexikon*, s.v. Bogen; *Journ. Anthrop. Inst.*, xix (1890), 220; xxiv (1895), 51; xxvi (1897), 210.

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I have discussed the antecedents of the stupa in *Antiquity* xvii (1943), 1. The account of Megasthenes is conveniently accessible in McCrindle, *Ancient India* (1877), 86, and the remains of Mauryan Pataliputra are described and illustrated in *Ancient India* no. 4, 95-103.

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