The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c14.14

c14.14

These excavations were generally preceded and followed by explorations. For our purpose, it is not necessary, nor possible with such an amount of unpublished material, to go into the details of individual sequence. But taking a few stratigraphic columns from selected type sites, I propose to draw an outline of the development of material culture in the sub-continent. In the course of this treatment, the emphasis will be laid on the development of large-scale agricultural communities, with more or less permanent settlements, and at the same time correlating the regions with the archaeological material (Fig. 8). The details of sequence and chronology in individual regions may slightly differ, but the general picture emerges quite clearly. Again, it is necessary to repeat that this picture lacks many details and is very tentative. If this provisional interpretation is followed by a critical examination, based on more work, this survey will have more than fulfilled its purpose. Now let us briefly review the development in the areas.