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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 89. Chapters: Indus Valley Civilization, Chariot, Harappa, Mohenjo-daro, Cemetery H culture, Proto-Indo-Europeans, Proto-Indo-European language, Indo-Aryan migration, Bronze Age of Comic Books, Bronze Age collapse, Outline of ancient Egypt, Oxhide ingot, Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex, Arsenical bronze, Tulamba, Andronovo culture, Dilmun, Dong Son drums, Proto-Indo-European society, ukuri i H y k, Kura-Araxes culture, Glazkov culture, Bull-leaping, Bara culture, Dong Son culture, Bronze Age sword, Meluhha, Tulul adh-Dhahab, Ban Chiang, Slab Grave Culture, Ochre Coloured Pottery culture, K. Aslihan Yener, Bronze Age in Romania, Showery Tor, Erlitou culture, Afanasevo culture, Gandhara grave culture, Farmana, Moon of Pejeng, Chaodaogou culture, Khopesh, Leubingen, Type site, Karasuk culture, Bronze mirror, Xindian culture, Midianite pottery, Erligang culture, Uruk period, Bronze Age India, L c Vi t, Baijinbao culture, Bonstorf Barrows, Piyama-Kurunta, Middle Bronze Age Cold Epoch, Kulli culture, Maikop kurgan, Bridge spouted vessel, Este culture, Okunev Culture. Excerpt: Models of the Indo-Aryan migration discuss scenarios of prehistoric migrations of the proto-Indo-Aryans to their historically attested areas of settlement in the northwest of the Indian subcontinent. Claims of Indo-Aryan migration are drawn from linguistic evidence but also from a multitude of data stemming from Vedic religion, rituals, poetics as well as some aspects of social organization and chariot technology. Indo-Aryan language derives from an earlier Proto-Indo-Iranian stage, usually identified with the Bronze Age Sintashta and Andronovo culture north of the Caspian Sea. Their migration to and within Northwestern parts of South Asia is consequently presumed to have taken place in the Middle to Late Bronze Age, contemporary to the Late Harappan phas...