A History of Agriculture in India v1.c49.27

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Mediterranean region centre of cultivated plants, 112, 269 horse, 287 Meerut, U. P., Harappan site, 148 Megalithic tombs, 306 Megaliths, 217, 307 Megasthenes, 360 Melons Chalcolithic age, 112 Harappan agriculture, 180 origin, 112 seeds from Harappa, 180 MENANDER, 387 Meso-American civilization, 184 Mesolithic age, 67 cave paintings, 82-96 age, 95 Bhimbetaka, 84, 96 classification, 83 Madhya Pradesh, 94-95 wild animals, 94 climate, 79-80 hunters and food-gatherers, 78-82 social lif, 84 Mesopotamia, Chalcolithic culture, 111-13 birth of agriculture, 111 Chalcolithic Revolution, 111 and Egypt, 113 and Harappan culture, 132 horse, 283-84 horticulture, 112 invention of plough, 111 pottery sacrophagi, 307 wheat, 161, 162 wheeled cart, 111 Metal work Lothal, 152 ninth century, 477 Metals and metallurgy Aryans, 315 later-Vedic, 308 mining, 308 Harappan age, 138 Mexico cultivated plants, 269 domestication of llamas, 183 origin of maize, 269 Milk Arthashastra, 372 and Aryans, 296, 315 churning, 295 from goats, 122 Neolithic age, 107 preparations, 314, 315 Millet earliest record, 245 later-Vedic period, 318 migration to India, 318 Neolithic cultures of South India, 235-36 region, 24 Mining, later-Vedic, 308 see also Metals and metallurgy Miocene, and horse, 282 Miocene-Pliocene epochs, 44-45 Mirzapur, U. P., cave shelters, 82 Mittanis and Rig-Vedic Aryans, 291 Kikkulic Text, 284-85 Mohenjo-daro, 130 barley and wheat finds, 162-63 camel remains, 193 destruction by the Aryans, 289 domestication of fowl, 213 elephants, 191 fish remains, 211 granaries, 159-60 horse figures, absence of, 287 pig remains, 211 terracotta duck, 212 wheat, 161, 162 Money and coinage Indo-Greek, 349 later-Vedic period, 314 Magadhan empire, 348-51 Monsoon, 21-22 eastern depression, 22 western depression, 22-23 see also Rainfall Mountain system, formation, 3 Museum of Evolution of Life, Chandigarh, 231 Mugharet es-Skhul, Israel, Neanderthal finds, 75 Mugharet et-Tabun, Israel, Neanderthal finds, 75 Mule, 129, 374 and the ass, 194 Musk, 480 Mustard, 168 Muzaffarnagar, U. P., Harappan site, 147