Ancient South Asia
Tides of History
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The Indus Valley Civilization
Ganges Plain and Deccan Plateau had their own Neolithic transitions. This involved local domestications of indigenous plants, things like Mung beans may have been domesticated several times. Also the introduction of domesticated Zebu cattle from the Indus Valley in Belucistan. All of this makes South Asia a unique mosaic of agricultural ways of life. The lifestyle packages that eventually emerged drew on all of them.
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