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A short settlement in 1725. Intermittent settlement during the 19th and 20th centuries. [119] East Pacific: Juan Fernández Islands: 1750: San Juan Bautista: Settled by the Spanish to prevent its use by foreign powers and pirates. Destroyed in 1751 by a tsunami but soon rebuilt. [120] South Atlantic: Falkland Islands: 1764: Puerto Soledad
Mehrgarh (7000 BCE to c. 2500 BCE), to the west of the Indus River valley, [55] is a precursor of the Indus Valley Civilisation, whose inhabitants migrated into the Indus Valley and became the Indus Valley Civilisation. [56] It is one of the earliest sites with evidence of farming and herding in South Asia.
The earliest known human remains in South Asia date to 30,000 years ago. Sedentariness began in South Asia around 7000 BCE; by 4500 BCE, settled life had spread, [ 2 ] and gradually evolved into the Indus Valley Civilisation , one of three early cradles of civilisation in the Old World , [ 3 ] [ 4 ] which flourished between 2500 BCE and 1900 ...
The medieval south Indian mathematician Mahāvīra lived in the Rashtrakuta dynasty and was the first Indian mathematician who separated astrology from mathematics and who wrote the earliest Indian text entirely devoted to mathematics. [56] The greatest maritime empire of the medieval Indians was the Chola dynasty.
The earliest inhabitants of Assam are estimated to be late neolithic Austroasiatic peoples who came from Southeast Asia. [21] Genetic studies on O2a1‐M95 Y-chromosomal haplogroup, which has been associated with Austroasiatic speakers in India, [ 13 ] show that the expansion of this haplogroup in northeast India occurred more than five ...
The earliest inhabitants of the region are assigned to the Middle Pleistocene period (781,000 to 126,000 years ago) in the Rongram valley of Garo Hills. The Paleolithic sites, which used handaxe-cleaver tools, have affinities to the Abbevillio- Acheulean culture.
The Paleo-Indians, also known as the Lithic peoples, are the earliest known settlers of the Americas; the period's name, the Lithic stage, derives from the appearance of lithic flaked stone tools. Paleo-Indians were the first peoples who entered and subsequently inhabited the Americas towards the end of the Late Pleistocene period.
Descendants of the ancient Kiratas are still found today in Modern-Day Nepal and some parts of North-East India. The foothills of the state were inhabited by people from Indus valley civilization which flourished between the time period of 2250 and 1750 BC. Before indus valley civilization, Koli, Holi, Dooms and Chnnals used to live here.