Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c9.47

c9.47

In Sind, at Rohri and Sukkur, and again near Karachi at Drigh Road, a characteristic industry made from chert or flint from the Sukkur limestone has been known for many years. Some long thin blades and the conical cores from which they have been struck are precisely comparable to those from the Harappā Culture of c. 2500–1500 B.C., and the rather earlier cultures such as Amri in Sind or those in the Zhob Valley, which again produce a similar flint industry. But other implements suggest an independent and probably early tradition, while the presence of archaic survivals, such as Levallois flaking and oval hand-axes, in addition to the cores and blades, does suggest that the Rohri industry may be of relatively great antiquity. Of the date of the apparently comparable industry from Raichur in Hyderabad (Dekkan) State one can say nothing.