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The Chalcolithic Age : When Metallurgy Came to Rule the World

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            The chalcolithic period refers to that part of old-world prehistory wedged between Neolithic, and the  urban and literate societies of bronze age. This was the era when the first metal was found and it was nothing else but the copper and there was extensive use of mixture of stone and copper as stone increases strength it had been added to copper. The term Chalcolithic is a combination of two words- Chalco + Lithic was derived from the Greek words "khalkos" + "lĂ­thos" which means "copper" and "stone" or Copper Age. It is  also known as the Eneolithic or Aneolithic (from Latin aeneus "of copper") is an    archaeological period that is usually considered to be part of the broader Neolithic (although it was originally defined as a transition between the Neolithic and the Bronze Age). Copper age is associated with wide-spread Copper Metallurgy. Credits: https://www.alchemyias.com/           In India, it spanned around 2000 BC t

Sites of Indus Valley Civilization (Part 2)

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  Harappa                       Harappa was the Site which changed the World View and understanding of Indian History . Earlier to the discovery of this site some Historians found out similarities between the linguistics of  Indian Subcontinent and Europe and Middle East Asia , they hypothesized that a migration would have been taken place from the Pont Steppe region to Europe and South East Asia which was true according to European Historical Evidences and Discourse, but when the discovery of Harappa happened the carbon dating was found out to be much earlier than the predicted Migration, It changed the Whole discourse and disrupted the earlier hypothesis of Invasion and Migration to the Indian Sub-Continent and South East Asia. There are Debates ,Views and Different Hypothesis about the Indus Valley Civilization among Historians, but due to Discovery of this Site it was Certain that our Civilization was much older and existed much earlier. Harappa is located at Dry River Basin of Rav