The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c14.s1.t2.55

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Hastinapur is the most important type site, in that it serves as a link with the east and the west.⁵ Here Lal discovered 5 phases of culture, the earliest of which shows circumstantial evidence of association with the Gangetic valley copper hoards. This fact is very important in the light of the excavations conducted at Maheshvar-Navdatoli in 1952-53 and 1957-58. As will be pointed later, the earliest agricultural communities in Malwa carry with them large number of Harappan and Post-Harappan (Western) traits. But in the latest excavations five copper-bronze (?) celts were found. Two of them have rounded and flared cutting edges and one of them has a deep shoulder, suggesting a Gangetic valley origin. Similarly at Kallur (Raichur District, Hyderabad State), we have the antannae swords. Hence there is a growing evidence of a Copper Age epi-centre in the Gangetic basin and the most urgent task seems to be to follow up Hastinapur with systematic explorations in the Gangetic basin. The second period marks a distinct break and is characterized by the Grey Ware. The people of this period built mud houses and practised [Figure: COPPER HOARDS
• FLAT CELT
- SHOULDERED CELT + BAR-CELT
* MID-RIB 'DAGGER'