Prehistory and Protohistory in India and Pakistan c4.s18.2

c4.s18.2

How is then the history of such an illiterate people or country known? What are or can be its sources? In brief, anything that tells us its past history: language, place-names and study of the people's physical features, customs and manners, legends and traditions, their monuments; even a study of landforms, soil and vegetation and the animals may help to illustrate this story. Of all these several sources—language and linguistics, ethnography and ethnology, geography, geology, physical anthropology, flora and fauna, we are here concerned with archaeology alone.