The Indus Civilization c8.12

c8.12

One of the most interesting tools yet unearthed is a bronze saw, sixteen and a half inches long, which once had a broad wooden handle; three rivet-holes indicate where it was attached to the blade. The astonishing thing about this saw is that the toothed edge is undulated in order to prevent its binding in a cut, in contrast to the modern method of setting each tooth separately to achieve the same end. Saws with the teeth set in any way whatever have hitherto been unknown before the time of the Romans, and it is extremely interesting to find so much earlier a specimen, and one, moreover, in such a good state of preservation.