Later Vedic Period is dated to around 1000-600 B.C.E. The information about this period is gathered from the treatises written in that period.
The material culture as reflected in the epics, Ramayana and Mahabharata was studied with the help of archaeological evidence.
A picture of the migration in the Later Vedic period can be gathered from the Saptasindhu region toward the east and its geographic markers from the literature of that period.
Thus, this period saw the spread of Later Vedic culture from the foothills of the Himalayas in the north to the Vindhya Mountains in the south.
(a) ‘Ahar’ or ‘Banas’ Culture:
The chalcolithic cultures in India generally belong to the postHarappan period. However, the ‘Ahar’ or ‘Banas’ culture in the Mewad region of Rajasthan was contemporary to...
(a) Vedic literature, Linguistics, and Archaeology
(b) Vedic Literature and Social organisation of Vedic Times
(c) The Early Vedic Culture
(d) Later Vedic Period
The Later Vedic period is dated around 1000-600 B.C.E. The treatises of the period give information about this period.
This period saw the spread of Later Vedic from the foothills of...