I have news for you. If you are referring to the Indus Valley, from the evidence of the Mohenjodaro seals, it was not an arid semi-desert as it is today, 4500 years later, but lush forest, with rhinoceri and tigers in the woods.
There was desertification, but that happened over several centuries after the cities collapsed. It continues, btw.
Most of North India was not the over-cultivated rice and paddy fields that we see today, but thick forest - one reason for the importance of the Puranic god, Agni.
Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Indrajit Gupta wrote:
> We are talking about a period which ranged roughly between 1500 BC to
> 400/500 BC. What kind of detritus did you expect to see left behind? Any
> examples from other geographies/locations?
>
> Split skulls? Wouldn't they be fine powder by today?
Maybe, maybe not. That place is a desert - hot, dry and ideally
preserving stuff like that indefinitely
Skulls from sites far older than that have been found
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