Early India and Pakistan to Ashoka c9.46

c9.46

If this historical reading of the archaeological evidence be provisionally accepted—and it fits the factors of time and space as they are known at present—there remains one unexplained factor, and that a formidable one. Whence came the urge and the art of building the megalithic structures themselves? To that question there is no present answer. The general, indeed the specific, resemblance between the south Indian port-holed cists and others in the Caucasus, Transcaucasia, the Jordan valley, North Africa, the Spanish Peninsula, France, Central Germany, and the British Isles has long been recognized.