Bronze Age India
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Through Indian subcontinent, Indus Valley Civilisation and Vedic period
South India, by contrast, remains in the Mesolithic stage until about 2500 BCE.
In the 2nd millennium BCE, 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 in Tamil Nadu discovered a stone celt with an inscription estimated to be up to 3,500 years old. Indian epigraphist Iravatham Mahadevan postulated that the writing was in Indus script and called the find "the greatest archaeological discovery of a century in Tamil Nadu".
Timeline of Phase in Bronze Age
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Literature
- Coningham, Robin; Young, Ruth (2015). The Archaeology of South Asia: From the Indus to Asoka, c. 6500 BCE – 200 CE. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-316-41898-7.
- Manuel, M. J. (2010). "Chronology and culture-history in the Indus Valley". Sirinimal Lakdusinghe Felicitation Volume. Battaramulla: Neptune. pp. 145–152.