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Ancient South Asia

Tides of History

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How Did Agriculture Come to the Indus Valley?

Dadgrass is offering our listeners 20% off your first order when you go to Dadgrass.com slash tides. The site of Damdama, on the Ganges Plain about halfway through Patna and Patna would have been a great place to live around 8,000 or 9,000 years ago. There were already a whole bunch of people living all over South Asia with a variety of lifestyles. This gives us yet another place in the world where plant cultivation was tried and succeeded. We see multiple groups of people of extremely different backgrounds, language families, and ways of life interacting.

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