Editing Bronze Age (section)

=== South Asia ===
(Dates are approximate, consult linked articles for details)
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 from: -3300 till: -1550 shift:(0,7) text:[[Bronze Age India]]
 from: -3300 till: -2700 text:[[Indus Valley Civilization|Early Indus]]
 from: -2700 till: -1900 text:[[Mature Harappan]]
 from: -1900 till: -1550 text:[[Cemetery H culture|Late Harappa]]
 from: -1500 till: -1200 text:[[Vedic period#Early Vedic period (c. 1500 – c. 1200 BCE)|Rigvedic]]
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==== Indus Valley ====
{{Main|Indus Valley Civilisation}}
[[File:The Dancing Girl, in a photogravure by Alfred Nawrath,1938.jpg|thumb|upright|''[[Dancing Girl (prehistoric sculpture)|Dancing girl]]'' of [[Mohenjo-daro]], {{circa|2500&nbsp;BC|lk=no}}E]]
The Bronze Age on the [[Indian subcontinent]] began {{circa|3300&nbsp;BC|lk=no}}E with the beginning of the [[Indus Valley Civilization]]. Inhabitants of the Indus Valley, the [[Harappa]]ns, developed new techniques in metallurgy and produced copper, bronze, lead, and tin. The Late Harappan culture (1900–1400&nbsp;BCE), overlapped the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age; thus it is difficult to date this transition accurately. It has been claimed that a 6,000-year-old copper amulet manufactured in [[Mehrgarh]] in the shape of a wheel spoke is the earliest example of [[lost-wax casting]] in the world.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Bertrand |first1=L. |last2=Jarrige |first2=J.-F. |last3=Réfrégiers |first3=M. |last4=Robbiola |first4=L. |last5=Séverin-Fabiani |first5=T. |last6=Mille |first6=B. |last7=Thoury |first7=M. |date=15 November 2016 |title=High spatial dynamics-photoluminescence imaging reveals the metallurgy of the earliest lost-wax cast object |journal=Nature Communications |volume=7 |pages=13356 |bibcode=2016NatCo...713356T |doi=10.1038/ncomms13356 |issn=2041-1723 |pmc=5116070 |pmid=27843139}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Centre for Cultural Resources and Training (CCRT) |url=http://ccrtindia.gov.in/induscivilisculp.php |access-date=2020-07-08 |website=ccrtindia.gov.in}}</ref>

The civilisation's cities were noted for their urban planning, baked brick houses, elaborate drainage systems, water supply systems, clusters of large non-residential buildings, and new techniques in handicraft (carnelian products, seal carving) and metallurgy (copper, bronze, lead, and tin).<ref>{{Cite book |last=Wright |first=Rita P. |author-link=Rita P. Wright |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gAgFPQAACAAJ |title=The Ancient Indus: Urbanism, Economy, and Society |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2010 |isbn=978-0-521-57219-4 |pages=115–125}}</ref> The large cities of [[Mohenjo-daro]] and [[Harappa]] likely grew to contain between 30,000 and 60,000 people,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Dyson |first=Tim |author-link=Tim Dyson |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3TRtDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA29 |title=A Population History of India: From the First Modern People to the Present Day |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2018 |isbn=978-0-19-882905-8 |page=29 |quote=Mohenjo-daro and Harappa may each have contained between 30,000 and 60,000 people (perhaps more in the former case). Water transport was crucial for the provisioning of these and other cities. That said, the vast majority of people lived in rural areas. At the height of the Indus valley civilization the subcontinent may have contained 4–6 million people.}}</ref> and the civilisation during its florescence may have contained between one and five million people.<ref>{{Cite book |last=McIntosh |first=Jane |author-link=Jane McIntosh |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1AJO2A-CbccC |title=The Ancient Indus Valley: New Perspectives |publisher=ABC-ClIO |year=2008 |isbn=978-1-57607-907-2 |page=387 |quote=The enormous potential of the greater Indus region offered scope for huge population increase; by the end of the Mature Harappan period, the Harappans are estimated to have numbered somewhere between 1 and 5 million, probably well below the region's carrying capacity.}}</ref>