INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -While their association with the Iron Age breaks down in the case of some older megaliths dating to 2000 BC, megaliths in peninsular India are more strongly associated with a characteristic wheel-made pottery type known as Black and Red Ware, which is found across sites.

Detailed explanation-2: -The work of these and other workers has established the date of the south Indian megalithic complex as contiguous with the Iron Age, that is, around 1500BC – 200AD (Moorti, 1994; 2008), though others have suggested the period 1200 – 500BC (Bauer et al., 2007).

Detailed explanation-3: -Following the decline of the Paleolithic and the Mesolithic periods, there emerged the new age of culture named the Iron age. As the name signifies, this was the period where the people started making Iron-based tools. The usage of Iron has not been reported till this period.

Detailed explanation-4: -The megalithic period saw a dramatic increase in the use of iron for weapons and agricultural tools. In fact, in south India, the megalithic period coincides with the Iron Age, and spanned a little over a thousand years from about the twelfth century BC to the second century AD.