South Asian Archaeology and the Myth of Indo-Aryan Invasions

The material, tangible, archaeological record is a most vital “hard data” record for establishing knowledge about the ways of life, and identities, of prehistoric peoples. It is a record that presents the patterns of prehistoric life in both a relative, stratigraphic, chronology, and absolute chronology, through radiometric techniques. It helps inform us of that part of human existence before written records, some 99 percent of human existence.