The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c12.s3.1

c12.s3.1

In the last few years, a good deal of work has been done in Central and Southern India on the Chalcolithic cultures, which are Post-Harappan and which precede the Historic period commencing about 500 B. C. Enough light has been shed on their interrelation and these cultures are characterized by the common use of painted pottery and a highly specialized blade-technique. While some of them represent survivals of the Harappan, others show certain older traits mixed with new elements which penetrated into this sub-continent about the beginning of the first millennium.