Indian Prehistoric Archaeological Anthropology

The book Indian Prehistoric Archaeological Anthropology is a valuable contribution in describing sites, industries, traditions and cultures of our those ancestors who were struggling hard for their survivals as hunters, gatherers, cave dwellers and parasite on nature particularly forest. They had faced environments like glacial and interglacial and pluvial and interpluvial. They were not literate. Their entire lifestyle has been reconstructed on the basis of stone tools, copper tools, bronze tools, iron tools and different types and designs of potteries. On the basis of their struggle they progressed through three successive stages Savagery, barbarism and civilization. They led a life of savage from lower palaeolithic to mesolithic period. They gave rise to revolution in neolithic period and entered in the stage of barbarism. By establishing organized civil and urban life in Indus Valley they established the civilization. After downfall of Indus Valley civilization they laid the foundation of village civilization along with copper smithy, bronze smithy and ceramic industries. Finally, they gave rise the Iron age culture along with pottery designs, and ceramic industries. The book covers 14 chapters and more than 325 maps, river sections, site sections, picture of stone tools, copper tools, copper objects, iron tools, house designs, potteries, ceramic industries and terracotta figures.