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2. Archeological an :Indian race which passed certainly by
Evidence land, perhaps also by sea, through Persia to the Valley of the two rivers. It was in the Indian Home (perhaps the Indus Valley) that we suppose for them that their culture developed. The Sumerian civilization was built up from elements derived from all three sources, alUbaid, Uruk and Jamdat-Nasr, and only took on its characteristic shape after those three sources had amulgamated and by the Dynastic period had merged their individuality in a civilization common to all. The Dynastic period begins Circa 2700 B. C. It was in this period that Sumerian civilization was carried from their early settlements on the fringe of the Persian Gulf to the mountains of Anatolia and to the shores of the mediterranean Sea. The race movements from the very beginning to 2700 B. C. appear to be from East to West ; from Bhārat to West Asia.
The contacts of Sumerians with the people of Anatolia and the Mediterranean Sea seem to have accelerated the two way traffic. We witness eastward movements of the Mediterranean people. In the Baghdad region a type of painted pottery called 'Scarlet-Ware', with some affinities to its predecessor, Jamdat-Nasr pottery has been found. This pottery turns up again in Susa and in south Baluchistan. We witness the earliest agricultural communities in the regions of Baluchistan, Makran and Sind which show from the beginning significant links with the ancient Bronze Age cultures of the regions farther west. When the peasant potters arrived in Makran, Baluchistan and Sind regions of Western Bhārata ; from the high plateau of Iran, having links with Western Asia; the whole of Bhārata was popoulated by the great basic pre-Aryan and Pre-Dravidian20 people of India who spoke the Austric speech. These earliest new arrivals of advanced agricultural classes appear to have
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