Early India and Pakistan to Ashoka c7.71

c7.71

First, it can be affirmed that the great accumulation at Brahmagiri reflects an essentially static, food-producing population, which had lived in timber huts, some at least rectilinear on plan and reinforced by basic dry-stone walls. The surrounding countryside under natural conditions would be jungle, but their abundant stone axes would enable the villagers to make clearings for farming, probably with the assistance of fire.