Prehistory and Protohistory in India and Pakistan c2.4

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A number of years have gone into the making of this comprehensive work. The result is an excellent review of the contributions, including his own, to the pre and proto-history of India and Pakistan from its early beginnings, together with the presentation of recent developments that have brought a new surge of progress and changed many past concepts. He has sifted information and arranged it in the proper perspective on the basis of accepted methods. In this process emerges a full length picture of transitions from pre-historic barbarism commencing with early paleolithic (150,000 B.C.) through the middle paleolithic (25,000 B.C.) down to the 'modern' (circa 500 B.C.) periods: neolithic chaleolithic and bronze age, and the highly individually patterned beginnings of civilized life.