Prehistory and Protohistory in India and Pakistan c3.7

c3.7

Secondly, a detailed review of the Indus Civilization and the Baluchistan pottery is omitted from this work, because a number of excellent publications on the subject exist. So also a reference to megaliths and rock-shelters and paintings; both these are well discussed by Sir MORTIMER WHEELER and the late Colonel GORDON in their respective works. And the writer has nothing new to offer. Likewise a part of Chapter IV, "Neolithic and Chalcolithic Cultures," has already appeared in the author's *Indian Archaeology Today*. Still, opportunity has been taken to bring it uptodate, important additions being references to excavations at Ahar, Eran, Kalibangan and explorations on the Makran coast and Rajar Dhipi and their dating by Carbon-14 method.