Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c6.22

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The polished stone celts and axes were tools typical in the Neolithic age. These have been obtained at several sites like Hamirpur, Chhatarpur, Hazaribagh, Ranchi, Santhal Pargana, Singhbhum, Darjeeling, Nadia, Naga Hills in Assam, Raichur in Hyderabad, Chittaldrug in Mysore, and Anantpur, Bellary, Guntur and Tanjore in Madras. In the North-West also some specimens were found on the banks of the Indus. In south India Bellary District, Mysore and Hyderabad were the focal centres of Neolithic culture. The excavations at Brahmagiri brought to light a polished stone axes between the beginning of the first millenium B. C. and 300 B. C. The authors of this culture were using both Neolithic celts and microlithic tools at the same time.