Re: Excerpts from Lawler's (2008) articles in Science

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "mkelkar2003" <swatimkelkar@...>
wrote:

> [I]t appears that the Indus collapse drove people to the east,
> in to the watershed of the Ganges, which spreads as far as
> the Bay of Bengal. Excavations along the Gangetic plain show that
> cities began to arise there starting about 1200 B.C.E., just a few
> centuries after Harrapa was deserted and much earlier than once
> suspected. That meant that some continuity between the first and
> second wave of Indian civilization is conceivable, says Possehl
> (Lawler 2008, p.1283)."

Archaeologist Gregory Possehl may have said there was some
continuity between the first (= Harappan) and second (= Gangetic)
urbanization in South Asia, yet after reading Andrew Lawler's
article I wondered, WHERE are the alleged 1200 BCE cities in the
Gangetic basin?

FB