Prehistory and Protohistory in India and Pakistan c4.s27: Relative Chronology

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It is also now customary to employ relative stratigraphy for dating purposes. For instance, the Chalcolithic deposits at Navdatoli (NVT) on the Narbada opposite Maheshwar, Nimad District could be divided into four sub-periods on stratigraphical grounds, as NVT₁, NVT₂, NVT₃, NVT₄. Now pottery similar to NVT₂, may occur at Nevasa, some 200 miles southwards, in the Deccan. Then Nevasa Chalcolithic Culture could be assigned this age. This is no doubt relative dating, but when NVT₁ has an absolute date based on C-14 method, then Nevasa could have the benefit of this carbon-dating.