Wiki Ancient to 17th century Flashcards
2000000 to 100000 BC
A skull fragment found in Hathnora in the Narmada Valley in central India indicate that India might have been inhabited in the Middle Pleistoceneera around 250,000 years ago. Anek R. Sankhyan describes it as “debated and conveniently interpreted as ?evolved? Homo erectus or ?archaic?.[1] Tools crafted by proto-humans that have been dated back two million years have been discovered in the northwestern part of the subcontinent.[2][3] The earliest archaeological site in the subcontinent is the palaeolithic hominid site in the Soan River valley.[4] Soanian sites are found in theSivalik region across what are now India, Pakistan, and Nepal.
2000000 to 100000 BC
Some of the Bhimbetka shelters were inhabited by Homo erectus more than 100,000 years ago.
2000000 to 100000 BC
Madrasian Culture is a prehistoric (aka Paleolithic) culture of South India.[10] It flourished in the Lower Paleolithic, the earliest subdivision of theStone Age, about 2.5 million years ago. It is called the Madrasian culture because artifact tools thought to be related to this culture were first found at sites in Attirampakkam (Attrambakkam=13? 13’ 50”, 79? 53’ 20”), which is located near Chennai (formerly known as Madras),Tamil Nadu.[11]Thereafter, tools related to this culture have been found at various other locations in this region. Bifacial handaxes and cleavers are typicalassemblages recovered of this culture.[12] Flake tools, microliths and other chopping tools have also been found. Most of these tools were composed of the metamorphic rock quartzite.[11] The stone tool artifacts in this assemblage have been identified as a part of the second inter-pluvial period in India.[13]
2000000 to 100000 BC
Evidence for presence of Hominins with Acheulean technology 150,000-100,000 BCE in Tamil Nadu.[14]
2000000 to 100000 BC
Paleolithic industries in South India Tamil Nadu 30,000 BCE[15]
9000 BC
Early Neolithic culture with first confirmed semi permanent settlements appeared 9,000 years ago in the Bhimbetka rock shelters in modernMadhya Pradesh, India. Some of the Stone Age rock paintings found among the Bhimbetka rock shelters are approximately 30,000 years old.[16]
9001 BC
The ancient history of the region includes some of South Asia’s oldest settlements[17] and some of its major civilisations.
6000 BC
Stone Age carvings of Edakkal Caves in Kerala.
3300 BC
Phase of the Indus Valley Civilization begins. The civilization used an early form of the Indus signs, the so-called Indus script.
3139 BC
Mahabharatha War presumed using planetary positions listed in the Mah?bh?rata.
2600 BC
The cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-daro become large metropolises and the civilization expands to over 2,500 cities and settlements across the whole of Pakistan, much of northern India, and large parts of Afghanistan,[20] covering a region of around one million square miles, which was larger than the land area of its contemporaries Egypt and Mesopotamia combined, and also had superior urban planning and sewage systems. The civilization began using the mature Indus script for its writing system.
2600 BC
End of the Early Dynastic II Period and the beginning of the Early Dynastic IIIa Period in Mesopotamia.
2700 BC
Mesoamericans begin to plant and domesticate corn.
2900 BC to 2334 BC
Mesopotamian wars of the Early Dynastic period.
2600 BC
Mature Harappan phase of the Indus Valley Civilization begins. The cities of Harappa, Lothal, Kalibangan, Dholavira, Rakhigarhi and Mohenjo-darobecome large metropolises and the civilization expands to over 2,500 cities and settlements. The civilization began using the mature Indus script
2500 BC
Dravidian Civilization begins in South India.
1800 BC
Adichanallur urn-burial site in Tirunelveli district in Tamil Nadu. In 2004, a number of skeletons dating from around 3,800 years ago.
1800 BC
Indo-Aryan migration
1500 BC
Early Vedic Period (to 1000 BC)
1300 BC
Cemetery H culture comes to an end
1200 BC
Rigveda (to 1000 BC)
1000 BC
Middle and Late Vedic period (to 500 BC)
1000 BC
Iron Age India
1000 BC
1000 - 300 BCE-Kanchi district, gold mine of Megalithic sites in South India, Tamil Nadu[21]
