Prehistory and Protohistory in India and Pakistan c4.s29: Human History
Prehistory and Protohistory in India and Pakistan c4.s29
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Human History
c4.s29.1
Prehistoric archaeology has no longer remained a simple collection of antiquities, nor a study and classification of artifacts of the dim past. Whether a person is an archaeologist or anthropologist or geologist, or a culture historian, ultimately it is the human history to which one has to aim at in interpreting the artifact.
c4.s29.2
This has necessitated the help of so many collateral disciplines. Though founded on geology, it has been nurtured by palaeontology—a specialized branch of geology—botany, anthropology, ethnology, history and the latest developments in chemistry and physics.