Ever heard of Narmada Man?
http://knowledge.sagepub.com/view/anthropology/n636.xml
here are the details of other findings from India which are much older than 100 K yrs.
http://www.assemblage.group.shef.ac....9/chauhan.html
Moreover, unlike other places Indians have been burning their dead for 1000s of years. Chances of finding fossile remains in india are much lower than other countries.
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Last edited by rkumar; May 9th, 2013 at 05:19 AM.
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DrRajpalSingh (May 9th, 2013), rajpaldular (May 9th, 2013)
Thanks Friend for providing two very useful clues to the presence of ancient man in India.
About the Narmada man readers can log and get full paper by paying subscription. The introduction to paper is given on the link as :
Narmada Man
Kenneth A. R. Kennedy
The discovery in 1982 of a fossilized skull in the central Narmada valley in Madhya Pradesh, India, provides the first scientifically recorded evidence of human skeletal remains from the Indian subcontinent dating to the late Middle Pleistocene of 300,000 to 150,000 years ago. Dr. Arun Sonakia of the Geological Survey of India found the fossil exposed on the ground surface of a thick Quaternary sediment of fluvial origin and embedded in a fossiliferous gravel conglomerate on the north bank of the Narmada river. This is near the village of Hathnora and some 40 km northeast of Hoshangabad town. Preserved parts of the specimen are the left side of the cranial vault, most of the base of the skull, and the left half of the brow ridges and orbit. Hence, it is a calvaria , not a complete skull with a full face including upper and lower jaws. Teeth are absent. ...
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lrburdak (May 9th, 2013), maddhan1979 (May 9th, 2013), rajpaldular (May 9th, 2013)
Whereas human settlement in India dates back to roughly 400,000 to 200,000 B.C., extensive urbanization and trade appear to have begun in the Indus River Valley around 3000 B.C. with the Harappa civilization. From this period until the termination of British colonial rule in 1947, numerous empires ruled various portions of South Asia, often assimilating a rich array of peoples and each adding its own contribution to an increasingly rich tapestry of cultures, ideas, and technologies. Indeed, many of India’s current political, cultural, and economic traits have been influenced by historical events and trends, many of which pre-date European contact.
Among the most influential early empires were the Aryans, who migrated from Persia to northwestern India around 2000 B.C. and brought a new pantheon of anthropomorphic gods, an early form of Sanskrit language, a tiered social system essentially based on ethnicity and occupation, and religious texts that are an important part of living Hindu traditions. [Source: Library of Congress – Federal Research Division Country Profile: India, December 2004, p. 1]
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The coming of the Aryans from central Asia caused far reaching impact on the history of not only what we know as Harappan Civilisation but also on general history of India.
The readers are requested to join discussion on this very important aspect of our ancient history.
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There are thousands of sites spread across multiple states mainly within India's Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and Gujrat and Punjab and Sindh of Pakistan, there are sites in as far as UP, Uttrakhand, J&K, MP and Afghanistan also.
This thread in intended to become the central repository for documenting all the sites of the Indus Valley Civilization (IVC) aka Vedic Civilization (VC) aka Sarasvati Civilization (SC). Please note, this thread is NOT intended to debate if IVC should be better known as VC or SC, etc.
Please document the sites, where possible, provide the wikimapia link, name of the village where site/mound is situated, district, state and country, etc. Any also insert additional links on the site e.g. research reports, reports of digs, etc.
Thanks.
Notes to Admin: If you deem it fit, feel free to move the the General History. Though it can be argued IVC is also the history of the early Jats.
Prikshit (October 24th, 2013), rainuohlyan (October 24th, 2013), rajpaldular (October 24th, 2013)
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@DrRajpalSingh: it will eb great if you could pls edit the post to date some of these events to form a longitudinal-timeline of the march of mankind in the Indian subcontinent.
Also, I am wondering if you meant Sub-Glacial Periods (big fluctuations in the Glacial periods, each fluctuation lasts 10s of thousands of years) whiles referring to the 2nd, 3rd, 4th Glacial periods.
Thanks.
@DrRajpalSingh: it will eb great if you could pls edit the post to date some of these events to form a longitudinal-timeline of the march of mankind in the Indian subcontinent.
Also, I am wondering if you meant Sub-Glacial Periods (big fluctuations in the Glacial periods, each fluctuation lasts 10s of thousands of years) whiles referring to the 2nd, 3rd, 4th Glacial periods.
Thanks.