Climate, Environment and the Indus Civilization | Prof Cameron Petrie | ASC IITGN

[@donaldfernandes7798]

Thank you Professor Cameron Petrie. We have been hearing about the climate change, flood, and drought again and again. We are tired. Human beings are some of the most adaptive and toughest creatures on the planet. They can live in -70 degrees Celsius for thousands of years and they can live in the hottest Sahara for 20,000 years. They will not vanish, come what may. They prefer it. I wish someone could explain how half the population of the Indian sub-continent vanished without a trace. The same old stories, rivers changing their course, floods, extended droughts, earthquakes and malaria. Please remember, the rivers flowing south in north east Indian sub-continent have their sources in the perennial snow clad ranges of the Hindukush, the Karakoram and the Himalayas. Even if the seas dry up, they will not. Water will always flow. People always find an alternative place to live, especially in the highlands in the event of floods and later they return. In the case of the Indus civilization, not a single scientist of repute including archaeologists like Mortimer Wheeler have been able to explain the disappearance of the Indus people. Nobody knows anything. Even the gene studies do not say where the Indus people are. Fooling the public with genetic statistics is latest trick being resorted by these scientists. An entire race suddenly vanished and has not been found even after 5000 years. What makes the story more bizarre is that those who vanished were the worlds first and most civilized ,advanced, urban people. This culture has never been replicated again. The answer is simple. There was a war and the people were slaughtered. To conduct this kind of mass killings is nothing new. It has happened in Europe for millenniums, but still the Europeans are alive and kicking. Nobody has vanished. To blame it on rain and snow would be simply ridiculous. What touched me most about the Indus Valley were the toys scattered on the ground. Where did the children go? It is easier to talk about rain, hailstones and flood.

[@SwapnilNarayan9]

Is it true that a person name Samar is mentioned in Mesopotamian record from Meluha?

[@nkmahale]

Loss of their technology by "Harrapans", by which I mean people of Saraswati-Sindhu Civilization, echoes loss of technologies in India during British rule in India, and India went from dominant 25% of world economy to mere 4%.