
Ep. 112: Early Indians
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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The Early Indians and the Unseen
Mehergar is the first place where you can see the earliest beginnings of agriculture that sustained itself over a long period of time. Around 6000BC, they start having... You can see how the initial pottery is. It's put together with bitumen. So we can almost see the civilization starting up. From the earliest phases, they are depending on wild animals, for example. Last time goes on, you can see it's domesticated from the remains of their feasts that you can see. Their dependence on domesticated animals goes up dramatically. Mergarg gives you a very good understanding of how a new way of living is dramatically different from the earlier Hanagadra life to crude
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