Pre - Rig Vedic By facebooker_10159539354043406 Period: 9000 BCE to 4000 BCE Mesolithic Period (9000 - 4000 BC) 7000 BCE Start of Plant Cultivation in India 5000 BCE Start of Domestication of Animals 4500 BCE Potter's Wheel invented - 4500BC Period: 4000 BCE to 2600 BCE Neolithic Period (4000 - 2600 BC) Period: 2900 BCE to 1700 BCE Harappan Culture (2900 - 1700 BC) 2200 BCE Lothal built (2200 BC) Period: 2000 BCE to 1500 BCE Migration of Indo-European Speakers to India