Minerals and Metals in Ancient India v1.c10.s4.13

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Further work is necessary so that the following problems are resolved. What was the precise origin of the Pre-Harappan Sothi culture which thrived in the Sarasvati valley? Were there specific influences towards it from the Ganga-Vindhya and Bagor-Pushkar neolithic traditions? These influences must have worked, if at all, before the onset of the third millennium BC, when the Ganeshwar-Jodhpura complex started to feed the Pre-Harappan Sothi and Harappan Cultures with chalcolithic materials. Ghosh (1964), Mughal (1970) and Allchins (1983) have concluded that there has been ‘continuity from the Pre-Harappan (Amri, Kot Diji and Kalibangan or Sothi) traditions to the Harappan’. A.K. Biswas (1990) has argued that the hypothesis of the Rgvedic Aryans having been intruders to India is a myth. They were the original inhabitants in the Sarasvati Valley. Did they represent the Sothi sub-culture of the Mature-Harappan cultural complex?