Steatite Seal Tradition and Late Harappan Decline
1900 BCE
Eastward dispersion of Harappan urban centers and fading use of undeciphered Indus script seals.
Sources and References
Collection de sceaux en stéatite (Musée National de New Delhi)
Consulter l'archive officielle ↗Asko Parpola, *Deciphering the Indus Script* (Cambridge Univ Press, 1994)
Semantic cluster
Ancient India clusterIndus, Veda, Mahajanapadas, Maurya, Gupta: urbanism, philosophies and empires.
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