Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c11.72

c11.72

Turning now to other aspects of the material culture, we have important evidence of metal-working in the Amri-Nal group. In the Nal cemetery two hoards of copper implements were found, the first (in Room A3 of a house of the deserted settlement into which the cemetery was dug) containing five objects, three of which were flat axes, the cutting edges not splayed, and the butts tapering. The other two objects were a very long, parallel-sided chisel with unsplayed edge, and another fragment of a tapering axe or chisel. The other copper hoard, in Room A5, comprised two axes with slightly splayed and curved cutting edges and narrow elongated butts, an axe or chisel with slightly splayed edge and a very elongated bar-shaped butt, a straight-sided saw, part of a tanged knife or spear-head, and another fragment, probably of a knife. No analyses were made of these tools, but a fragment of a similar type of axe found near gave: