Prehistory and Protohistory in India and Pakistan c5.s12.8

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The above chart is presented here with a view to facilitate understanding of the complicated and still very much immature state of the subject³¹. It can best be done for the general reader with the help of the Three Age system of THOMSEN, as modified during the last 100 years. Even its most brilliant critic,³² Dr. GLYN DANIEL, has had recourse to it when he describes the Indus Civilization as Chalcolithic in one of his later publications.³³ This state of things will remain until a more suitable terminology, a "vocabulary" which is more objective than the present is "discovered". For many scholars in the field have criticized, but few have come forward with a really constructive suggestion which is universally acclaimed.