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It grew step by step out of the Neolithic villages.
NEOLITHIC WAY OF LIFE
around 7000 BCE at Mehrgarh in the low hills
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Spreads into the middle and upper
Indus valley and further east
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Some settlements master the
EXTRACTION OF COPPER from its ores around 4000 BCE
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These become the earliest
CHALCOLITHIC sites in the subcontinent marking the beginning
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The civilisation emerges
by 2600 BCE
- Extraction means taking the metal out of the rock. Ore is the rock from which a metal is taken out.
