Horse and chariot
The spread of Indo-Aryan languages has been connected with the spread of the chariot in the first half of the second millennium BC. Elements supposedly introduced to India in the course of the migration include the Soma cult, as well as the horse and chariot.
About 1800 BCE, there is a major cultural change in the Swat Valley with the introduction of new ceramics and two new burial rites: flexed inhumation in a pit and cremation burial in an urn which, according to early Vedic literature, were both practiced in early Indo-Aryan society. The economy of the Swat culture not only includes the horse, but there are two horse burials as well as other horse-trappings.
Attempts of proponents of continuity to portray the Rigvedic culture is native to the subcontinent, such as identification of horses or chariots in IVC art, have met with little or no acceptance.
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