History of Technology in India, Vol. I: From Antiquity to c. 1200 A.D. v1.c39.s1.3

v1.c39.s1.3

‘The specific paradigms which defined the study of Indus Civilization in the earlier years, and which must now be abandoned, include the concepts of: (a) a sudden and late origin, (b) a long period of widespread and static cultural uniformity, (c) a sudden and uniform collapse caused by (d) an invasion of the Indo-Aryans (with an assumed second millennium date)’.