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{{Short description|Overview of the Indian subcontinent during the Bronze Age}}
The [[Bronze Age]] in the [[Indian subcontinent]] begins around 3000 BCE, and in the end gives rise to the [[Indus Valley civilisation]], which had its (mature) period between 2600 BCE and 1900 BCE. It continues into the [[Rigvedic tribes|Rigvedic period]], the early part of the [[Vedic period]]. It is succeeded by the [[Iron Age in India]], beginning in around 1000 BCE.

[[South India]], by contrast, remains in the [[Mesolithic]] stage until about 2500 BCE.
In the 2nd millennium BCE, there may have been cultural contact between North and South India, even though South India skips a Bronze Age proper and enters the Iron Age from the [[Chalcolithic]] stage directly. In February 2006, a school teacher in the village of [[Sembiyankandiyur|Sembian-Kandiyur]] in [[Tamil Nadu]] discovered a stone celt with an inscription estimated to be up to 3,500 years old.<ref name="The Hindu_century">{{cite news | last=Subramaniam | first=T. S. | title= "Discovery of a century" in Tamil Nadu | date=May 1, 2006 | url =http://www.hindu.com/2006/05/01/stories/2006050112670100.htm | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20060615053236/http://www.hindu.com/2006/05/01/stories/2006050112670100.htm | url-status =dead | archive-date =June 15, 2006 | work=[[The Hindu]] | access-date = 2008-05-21}}</ref>
<ref name="significance">{{cite news | last=Subramaniam | first=T. S. | title=Significance of Mayiladuthurai find | date=May 1, 2006 | url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/2006/05/01/stories/2006050101992000.htm | work=The Hindu | access-date=2008-05-23 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080430214654/http://www.hinduonnet.com/2006/05/01/stories/2006050101992000.htm | archive-date=April 30, 2008 | url-status=usurped }}</ref> Indian epigraphist [[Iravatham Mahadevan]] postulated that the writing was in Indus script and called the find "the greatest archaeological discovery of a century in Tamil Nadu".<ref name="The Hindu_century" />

{|class="wikitable"
|-
|''Date range''
|''Phase''
|''Era''
|-
!3300-2600
!Early Harappan (Early Bronze Age)
! rowspan=3 | Regionalisation Era<br /><small>c.4000-2500/2300 BCE (Shaffer){{sfn|Manuel|2010|p=149}}<br />c.5000-3200 BCE (Coningham & Young){{sfn|Coningham|Young|2015|p=145}}</small>
|-
|3300-2800
|Harappan 1 (Ravi Phase)
|-
|2800-2600
|Harappan 2 ([[Kot Diji]] Phase, [[Nausharo]] I, [[Mehrgarh]] and Vinya VII)
|-
!2600-1900
!Mature Harappan ([[Indus Valley civilisation]])
!rowspan=4 |Integration Era
|-
|2600-2450
|Harappan 3A (Nausharo II)
|-
|2450-2200
|Harappan 3B
|-
|2200-1900
|Harappan 3C
|-
!1900-1300
!Late Harappan ([[Cemetery H]]); [[Ochre Coloured Pottery culture|Ochre Coloured Pottery]]
!rowspan=3 |Localisation Era
|-
|1900-1700
|Harappan 4
|-
|1700-1300
|Harappan 5
|-
|}

==World timeline==
{{World timeline}}

==See also==
* [[Periodisation of the Indus Valley civilisation]]
* [[Iron Age in India]]
* [[Indus Valley civilisation]]
* [[Indus script]]

== References ==
{{Reflist|2}}

== Literature ==
* Manuel, M. J. (2010) 'Chronology and culture-history in the Indus Valley.', in Sirinimal Lakdusinghe Felicitation Volume. Battaramulla: Neptune, pp. 145-152

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[[Category:Prehistoric India]]
[[Category:Bronze Age Asia|India]]

Bronze Age India - Revision history

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