Articulating Prehistoric Landmarks in Transport: An Indian Disclosure

Subject:Anthropology \ History
Title:Articulating Prehistoric Landmarks in Transport: An Indian Disclosure
Author(s):Dr. Sinitha G S & Sebin Michael
Published on:30th September 2026
Published by:Lyceum India
Name of the Journal:Lyceum India Journal of Social Sciences
ISSN/e-ISSN:3048-6513
Volume & Issue:Volume: 3, Issue: 11
Pages:62-69
Original DOI (if any):10.5281/zenodo.22922362
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Abstract:Mobility is fundamental to economic and social activities. Transportation’s unique purpose is to overcome space, shaped by human and physical constraints such as distance, time, administrative divisions, and topography.  Transport represents one of the most important human activities worldwide since time immemorial. Transport occupies a very important place in an economy; it connects village with village and town with town.  Transport modes have played numerous dissimilar historical roles in the growth of civilizations. It shapes social interactions by favouring or inhibiting the mobility of people. Transportation shapes social interactions by favouring or inhibiting the mobility of people and plays a crucial role even in shaping social structures. In pre-historic India, it plays a major role in spatial relations between localities and creates treasured links between regions and economic activities, between people and the rest of the world.
Keywords:Prehistory, Transportation, Roads, Romans, Civilizations
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