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The emergence of Non-Harappan Chalcolithic cultures in Central India and the Deccan mark a change not only in the subsistence pattern of people but an overall transition from pre to proto historic period. Critically analyze.
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- Pre-history and Proto-history
By the second millennium BC, as the mature Harappan cities were contracting and fragmenting, a cluster of regional, non-urban cultures using both stone and copper tools sprang up across Central India and the Deccan — the Kayatha, Savalda, Malwa and Jorwe cultures chief among them. Because these communities produced their own copper independent of Harappan…
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- Regional Sequence: Kayatha, Savalda, Malwa, Jorwe
- Change in Subsistence Pattern
- Markers of the Pre-to-Protohistoric Transition
- Settlement and Technology
- Craft, Symbolism and Belief
- The Critical Qualification: A Transition, but an Incomplete One
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