Bronze Age India
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| Bronze Age |
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| ↑ Neolithic |
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Near East (3300-1200 BC) China (3100-700 BC) South Asia (3000-1200 BC) Pontic-Caspian steppe (5500-1200 BC) Europe (3000-600 BC)
Korea (800-400 BC) |
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Copper Age, Bronze, Arsenical bronze, Writing, Literature, Sword, Axe, Chariot, Boat, Gold hat, Collapse |
| ↓Iron age |
The Bronze Age in South Asia begins around 3000 BC (Harappan 1) in North India, and in the gives rise to the Indus Valley Civilization, which had its mature period between 2600 BC and 1900 BC. It is succeeded by the Indian Iron Age, beginning around 1000 BC.
South India, by contrast, remains in the Mesolithic stage until about 2500 BC. In the 2nd millennium BC, there may have been cultural contact between North and South India, even though South India skips a Bronze Age proper and enters the Iron Age from the Chalcolithic stage directly. In February, 2006, a school teacher in the village of Sembian-Kandiyur near Mayiladuthurai in Nagapattinam District, Tamil Nadu discovered a stone celt with an inscription estimated to be up to 3,500 years old.[1] [2] Indian epigrahist Iravatham Mahadevan postulated that the writing was in Indus script and called the find "the greatest archaeological discovery of a century in Tamil Nadu".[1]
| Date range | Phase | Era |
| 3300-2600 | Early Harappan (Early Bronze Age) | |
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| 3300-2800 | Harappan 1 (Ravi Phase) | |
| 2800-2600 | Harappan 2 (Kot Diji Phase, Nausharo I, Mehrgarh VII) | |
| 2600-1900 | Mature Harappan (Indus Valley Civilization) | Integration Era |
| 2600-2450 | Harappan 3A (Nausharo II) | |
| 2450-2200 | Harappan 3B | |
| 2200-1900 | Harappan 3C | |
| 1900-1300 | Late Harappan (Cemetery H); Ochre Coloured Pottery | Localisation Era |
| 1900-1700 | Harappan 4 | |
| 1700-1300 | Harappan 5 |
[edit] References
- ^ a b Subramaniam, T. S. (May 1, 2006). ""Discovery of a century" in Tamil Nadu". The Hindu. http://www.hinduonnet.com/2006/05/01/stories/2006050112670100.htm. Retrieved on 2008-05-21.
- ^ Subramaniam, T. S. (May 1, 2006). "Significance of Mayiladuthurai find". The Hindu. http://www.hinduonnet.com/2006/05/01/stories/2006050101992000.htm. Retrieved on 2008-05-23.
