Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c9.50

c9.50

To understand the subsequent prehistory of India we must look beyond its present frontiers to the other lands of Western Asia. A knowledge of the sequence of prehistoric cultures in Persia and Mesopotamia is necessary for an understanding of the Indian material, which has to be compared and equated with that of the more westerly lands, our knowledge of which is greater. So in the next chapter we turn to the story of the early agricultural communities in Western Asia between the fifth or sixth and the second millennium B.C.