Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c11.76

c11.76

The types of tools will be commented on at a later stage when we come to discuss the affinities and date of the culture, but for the present it is sufficient to notice the primitive form of flat axe, similar in general terms, though not in detail, to those of equally primitive type from the Harappā Culture. As we shall see, the more sophisticated shaft-hole axe, known in Mesopotamia from Early Dynastic times, is a late-comer to Western India.