THE RISE OF CIVILIZATION IN THE GANGETIC PLAIN: The Context of Painted Grey Ware

The book is about the rise of civilization in the Ganga Plains. Though there are traces of occupation starting as early as 8th millennium BCE as indicated by radiometric characterizations but those early footprints of humankind in the region were not only unsteady and vacillating but also very sparse. An uninterrupted cultural occupation of the Plains starts much later. The foundations of a civilization that has an unbroken history for the millennia to come were laid down by a culture known in the archaeological parlance as the Painted Grey Ware (PGW) culture. Our knowledge of this phase of protohistoric culture has grown manifolds over the last few decades.