Talk:Cemetery H culture
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The connection between the Cemetery H culture and the RgVeda seems worth noting:
The range of identifiable places (mostly rivers) mentioned in the RgVeda correspond almost exactly to the boundaries of the Cemetery H culture. The hymns of RgVeda cannot have been composed later than 1200 BCE, nor earlier than 1900 BCE, (probably, they were composed between 1700 and 1600 BCE) so the time of the Cemetery H culture spans the time of the composition of the RgVeda.
The Cemetery H culture is perhaps not what one would have expected the culture described in the RgVeda to look like, archeologically; this may show that our ideas about this culture are mistaken.
The RgVeda certainly refers to the Indus river, while there are no Cemetery H sites (as far as I know) that far northwest. However, the homeland of the Purus and Bharatas, who are the protagonists of the RgVeda, did not include the Indus. Also, it is possible that Cemetery H culture does extend to the Indus, but that these sites have not yet been excavated.
Reference:
Rgvedic history: poets, chieftans and politics, by Michael Witzel, in The Indo-Aryans of Ancient South Asia, ed. by George Erdosy.
- Sandy Hodges
[edit] Rice
Does anybody have idea on how rice came to IVC?
Rice was domesticated in either China, Thiland or Assam. It is generally believed that the Ganges valley was populated by migrating Aryans after 1200 BC. If that be the case, then how did rice cultivation spread to last IVC?--UB 07:56, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
