India is the birthplace of human society?

Question

Can this claim be taken seriously? I was always under they impression that Ethiopia in African is the birthplace of human society. And when I use the term “society” I’m not taking about the Eurocentric term “civilizations” where in order for society to be considered civilized, they would have to achieve massive architecture feats.

Answer 1

No.  Many society have developed independently such as the civilization of the Americas.  The first known societies came out of Africa, but others began to developed in France and the middle east at the same time.

Answer 2

rofl who told u that? your taxi driver?

Answer 3

NO.

Each region evolve independently.

That's so ethnocentric.

Answer 4

yes India is one the list along with china.

they really honestly don't know where we started

Answer 5

It's looking like some of the world earliest cities are underwater off the coast of India in the Bay of Cambay, and some of the assumed pottery dates back to over 30,000 years. Geophysics and imaging of the sea floor do seem to show some structures.

But then again, there Jomon people of Japan and the ancient Chinese seem to be showing signs of writing before everyone else. Europeans were wearing cloth about 30,000 years ago, in the stone age, and making ceramic art objects.

the sea level went up about 100m in the space of a few hundred years at the end of the ice age. At times, in the land that's now under the North sea, the sea would have come inland by nearly a metre a day, and this is true of a lot of places around the worlds, People would have had to leave everything and run to high ground. Mostly humans build cities on estuaries, so there are almost certainly some very interesting finds lurking under the sea.

This doesn't apply so much to Africa though, as they didn't lose much land to the sea. Really they should be looking at land swallowed by the jungle, as whole civilisations died out when malaria evolved.

Answer 6

This clame of India being birthplace for human society is not true. God created man and woman and all these animal in the garden of eden, betweent he ephrates and tigris river.

Answer 7

if your rference to society really doesnt have to include literacy or monumental architecture, and instead just a cohesive bond among individuals who work together in order to achieve common goals, than Ethiopia/ eastern africa is indeed where the first human society was established because that is where humans and alot of their ancestors evolved from, and since we have been a "societal species" from our earleist ancestors Ethipopia/Africa is where the first society had to be.

Answer 8

research is still going on in that matter.

no 100% conclusion yet

india is not the only birth place.because at that point of time there were incas, aztecs...too so there was some sort of crude society....

we cannot now define which can be called a society and which is not.,...because it leads to the concept of ethnocentrism.

we better not go into extremes which is best left to the researchers.

every thing is relatively defined.

Answer 9

Can you have society, without agriculture? If so, the aboriginal Australians have a culture which has lasted more than 40,000 years: easily the longest continuous one. It depends on what your definition of culture is, but I strongly doubt that India was first. To the NorthWest, probably in today's Iraq, is far more likely, and I would need to be made aware of a large body of independently assessed and verified archaeological evidence before reconsidering that view.

Answer 10

No,

India is not the birthplace of human society.  Let's see where humanity originated in the Garden of Eden:

Most put the Garden somewhere in the Middle East near Armenia, with Jewish tradition citing Yerevan at 40°10′12.0″N, 44°31′12.0″E, and with Mount Ararat only 30 miles to the south west.

Some theologians have claimed that the Garden never had a terrestrial existence, but was instead an adjunct to heaven as it became identified with Paradise The creation story in Genesis relates the geographical location of both Eden and the garden to four major rivers (Pishon, Gihon, Tigris, Euphrates), as well as a number of named regions (Armenia, Ararat, Yerevan or Armenian Highlands)(see Genesis 2:10-14). This seems to suggest a setting in the ancient Caucasus, specifically somewhere in or near Armenia. However, the location of these rivers remains the subject of much controversy and speculation as there is no confirmed physical or archaeological evidence of the rivers' existence beyond the record found in Genesis and other early Judaeo-Christian literature, such as Jubilees. There are other hypotheses that locate Eden in Mesopotamia, Africa and the Persian Gulf, the latter of which can draw on physical 'evidence' of the confluence of the four rivers, gold production and abundance of Bdellium although requiring

Possibly the origin is at the arid lands west of the Euphrates.

Also,Archaeologist Juris Zarins claimed that the Garden of Eden was situated at the head of the Persian Gulf, where the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers run into the sea at 29°47′0″N, 48°38′0″E,

Answer 11

The Indus River Valley in modern day Pakistan is one of the three earliest LITERATE, civilizations known to man!

They flourished from about 3500-1500 BCE, and exhibited high levels of art, sanitation and engineering, which are currently being excavated!