Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c8.24

c8.24

But there are still enormous gaps in our knowledge of Indian prehistory, and that just mentioned between the Old Stone Age and the earliest settlements in Baluchistan is outstanding in immensity and obscurity. Hardly less obscure are the happenings after the collapse of the Harappā Civilization in the middle of the second millennium B.C. – a period traditionally associated with the arrival from the west of the Indo-European-speaking tribes who called themselves the Aryans, but scarcely attested by direct archaeological evidence. Nevertheless the time is ripe for a stocktaking and an attempt to assess our present knowledge of prehistoric India before new work and up-to-date techniques once again advance the horizon of our knowledge.