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The political atmosphere in South India shifted from smaller kingdoms to large empires with the ascendancy of Badami Chalukyas. A Southern India-based kingdom took control and consolidated the entire region between the Kaveri and the Narmada Rivers. The rise of this empire saw the birth of efficient administration, overseas trade and commerce ...
In the period of the Neolithic Revolution, roughly 8000-4000 BCE, [11] Agro pastoralism in India included threshing, planting crops in rows and storing grain in granaries. [3] [12] Barley —either of two or of six rows— and wheat cultivation—along with the rearing of cattle, sheep and goat—was visible in Mehrgarh by 8000-6000 BCE.
A brief introduction to technological brilliance of Ancient India (Indian Institute of Scientific Heritage) Science and Technology in Ancient India Archived 2015-05-01 at the Wayback Machine; India: Science and technology, U.S. Library of Congress. Pursuit and promotion of science: The Indian Experience, Indian National Science Academy.
The Indian subcontinent. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to ancient India: . Ancient India is the Indian subcontinent from prehistoric times to the start of Medieval India, which is typically dated (when the term is still used) to the end of the Gupta Empire around 500 CE. [1]
The ancient transfer of Lycian designs for rock-cut monuments to India is considered as "quite probable". [141] Art historian David Napier has also proposed a reverse relationship, claiming that the Payava tomb was a descendant of an ancient South Asian style, and that Payava may actually have been a Graeco-Indian named "Pallava". [148]
Zinc was extracted in India as early as in the 4th to 3rd century BCE. Zinc production may have begun in India, and ancient northwestern India is the earliest known civilization that produced zinc on an industrial scale. [44] The distillation technique was developed around 1200 CE at Zawar in Rajasthan. [34]
India was one of the first places where cotton was cultivated and used even as early as 2500 BCE during the Harappan era. The remnants of the ancient Indian clothing can be found in the figurines discovered from the sites near the Indus Valley civilisation , the rock-cut sculptures , the cave paintings , and human art forms found in temples and ...
Recently discovered iron age sites in the south of India in Mayiladumparai may be the oldest iron-age sites in India, dated at c. 2172 BCE. [7] Previously known early iron age sites in South India are Hallur, Karnataka and Adichanallur, Tamil Nadu [8] at around 1000 BCE. [9] Mahurjhari near Nagpur was a large bead manufacturing site. [10]