Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c9.36

c9.36

The South Indian stone-axe cultures have been put on a new footing by Wheeler’s recent work in Mysore State. His earlier work on the Coromandel coast in 1945 had provided the first fixed date in the sequence of indigenous cultures in that region, by establishing their relationship to imported coins and pottery of the first century A.D. in a Roman trading-post at Arikamedu near Pondicherry. With dated types of native pottery now identified it was possible to use this evidence in Mysore in conjunction with finds of Roman coins of the same period, and in the Chitaldrug region a sequence was established as follows: