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Harappan food came from farming, animal husbandry, fishing, hunting and gathering. Wheat and barley were important crops, while cattle, sheep, goats and buffaloes formed part of the livestock economy. Regional differences meant that food habits were not identical everywhere.
Historians reconstruct the early Vedic world by combining the Rigveda, comparative linguistics, archaeology and increasingly ancient DNA. These sources support movements and cultural interaction across Central and South Asia, but no single source can identify a simple racial group called the 'Aryans'.
Chalcolithic communities used both stone and copper tools and lived in regional farming settlements across much of the Indian subcontinent. Their pottery, agriculture, houses, burials and craft traditions reveal a diverse world between the Neolithic and the wider spread of iron.
Mehrgarh is one of the most important early farming sites of the northwestern Indian subcontinent. Its archaeological remains reveal the gradual development of cultivation, animal domestication, village life, craft production and long-distance exchange.
