Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c10.16

c10.16

In Northern Persia a very similar settlement was found to have existed at the base of the Tepe Sialk mound near Kashan. Here again there were no recognizable traces of permanent dwellings, but layers of charcoal and ash were thought to represent the carbonized wood and branches of rough shelters. The people were still in the Stone Age - a burial was found with a man holding a polished stone axe in his hands - and there were slotted bones for flint blades which may be part of sickles of the Natufian type, as well as stone hoe-blades. Some of the pottery found was painted with black designs, and was hand-made (as was that of Hassuna). Immediately above the layers containing these remains began settlements with mud-built houses, and here too were found the first tiny objects made of copper.