The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c15.s3.5

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With the appearance of iron, a new era begins. By about the 4th century B.C., the whole Peninsula displays a remarkable homogeneity of material culture, inspite of the diversity of their burial systems. The finest evidence for this is the uniformity in pottery forms and fabrics in a large part of the country from this time ( Fig. 40). The very rapid spread and colonization of the chief river valleys by these metal-using communities led to the displacement, contraction and concentration of the primitive people who led a life of hunting and primitive agriculture into the forests and hills of Central, Eastern and Southern India.