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Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c14.s1.2

Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c14.s1.2

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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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