From tribes to empire: Iron Age in Northern India

Human communities have been living in India for nearly 50,000 years. In 10,000 years, the Indian continent went from being under numerous small independent bands to being united almost entirely under the Mauryan empire. This is a series telling the story of that transformation. Part 2 - tool use and metal technology - how Northern India recovered from the collapse of the Indus Valley Civilisation and went on to produce the second urbanisation.

Map of early Iron Age sites in Uttar Pradesh - https://www.google.co.in/maps/d/u/0/e...

Books referred to:
A history of ancient and early medieval India: From the stone age to the 12th century by Upinder Singh
Iron Age in South Asia - edited by Akinori Uesugi (find it at https://www.researchgate.net/publicat... )

All maps used in this video have been sourced from the above books. Copyrights of all pictures used belong to the original authors and publishers.

Papers cited in the video:
The origins of iron working in India: new evidence from the Central Ganga Plain and the Eastern Vindhyas by Rakesh Tiwari

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Siddhartha Corsus - Hare Krisha (Praise the Lord) ft. Billie Waves & Mukti Bird from freemusicarchive.org - CC BY NC
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